Firefox 2 is hardly sitting tight before the pretty boys at Mozilla started building the third iteration of the best browser in the world (sulk if you like!). You can read about some of the interesting features here.
Adobe RIA Conference in Nigeria
At last, the RIA beam has been focused on Nigeria.
The Nigerian Adobe User Group would be having an RIA conference to discuss and showcase what we Nigerian’s got to offer. ColdFusion and Flex are going to get serious scrutiny. I also heard that some bits of Apollo would be revealed. The conference would be from January 19 to 21, 2007 at Yaba College of Technology (But I gotta go to church!).
For those who don’t know, RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications, which is Adobe’s cut for the Web 2.0 paradigm. In all honesty, Adobe has been on the RIA stuff before the Web 2.0 apostles got their celestial callings.
For more information, please visit www.augng.com.
Dara is one year old!
It was just like yesterday that Dara (my daughter) literarily popped out into this mad mad world; and she’s been a bundle of joy ever since.
And today marks her first year on planet earth. It’s been fun all the way. I remember when I was so impatient that she wasn’t walking on time, now I practically beg and bribe her to sit down and stay still. But children ain’t corrupt like the rest of us, so she’s not playing ball.
And tomorrow, I too will be a year older. Since from my own estimate I am now a member of the Elder’s forum, I will get myself a decent walking stick and dab some white talc on my brow: Here comes Grandpa Deji!
The shorter the better
Can you imagine? I haven’t written a single technical article in months. The folks at CFDJ (I promised them heaven and earth) must be thinking of spilling my blood by now. And to make matters worse, I’m adding a short story section to my blog.
What will you find there: true life stories, half truths and plain fiction. But all they have in common is just to entertain you & me of course.
The Greatest Disappointment
A Yoruba adage made popular by the legendary singer, King Sunny Ade, says “Akinkaju t’o mo’ja ti’o mo’sa iru won ma’n b’ogun ibo mi lo ni”. Meaning a good warrior knows when to advance and when to retreat. And a better warrior even knows whether to go to war or not.
Now I’m talking about Donald Duke. I am so pissed off with him that if he was Dara (my baby) I would have whipped his bum silly. Can you imagine this guy raising up everyone’s hope then throwing in the towel so cheaply without a fight? I know politics is about strategy and it is about give and take.
Well, we all remember that when the issue of presidency came up, Duke was playing hide and seek and he wouldn’t come out on time. But when he decided to, everyone was happy. There wasn’t any doubt that I was going to march every member of my family (at gun point!) to go and vote for him. His credentials are impeccable. He’s up to the task. At last, we all felt Nigeria was set to graduate from the remedial classes.
How wrong we were. Baba just called him last Thursday night (two days to the December 16 PDD Presidential primaries) to shakara the guy and he just collapsed like that. What a shame! Didn’t he know all these before? Didn’t he know there would be an anointed from the north? We all thought he had all it takes to fight it to the end.
No wahala. We must move on, but Duke better not bother come and disturb me again because I only stake my votes with people who know what they want to do. And em, with Yar’ Adua, I don’t know what to say because I don’t know him. I didn’t ‘en know there was a governor called a Yar’ Adua before this presidential primaries. However, the few I have heard people say about him are pretty ok. Not fireworks in terms of, em, say reforms and ideas, but at least, I heard he’s honest and not corrupt and no matter what, we need a massive dosage of that in Nigeria, especially after the last 8 years of garrison politics.