Archive for the 'General' Category

posts that are difficult to categorize: most posts fit in here.

Obscenities

Date: June 22nd, 2007

“You know, Azuka you haven’t started talking like an American,” my younger brother said to me. “Really? I’m proud of my accent. I think people sound stupid when they try to mask it and…” “No, not that,” my brother interrupted. “You’re not saying things like ‘bullsh*t’, ‘f**k you’, ‘mother..’” “What?!” Obscenities… The strongest word I [...]

Tournament

Date: April 22nd, 2007

L-R: Azuka, Kip (my Nepalese friend), Gary (the head of our club), Vito, Alan (the Filipino — our best player. He’s not left-handed!). I’m holding my glasses in my hand. Trust me, you don’t want to see me with them on!. We played at the state championships yesterday. It was the first time I was [...]

The Law of the Dollar

Date: February 7th, 2007

There shall always be a minimum of one dollar in coins in my possession at any given time I know this sounds silly but I sat down yesterday during my weekly madness analysis. I hadn’t eaten all day and I did something I usually do: fish around in my shirt and jeans pockets, my coat, [...]

Comment Spam

Date: January 7th, 2007

I turned on a simple image verification for people posting on my blog in the past. Two days ago, I got a rush of pingback spam. The spammers are moving on, and so will I. You don’t need to fill in that annoying comment verification to leave a comment on my blog anymore. I now [...]

Looking for Bloggers

Date: December 11th, 2006

Mrs Daniel-Ayoade and I started the UsaStudyInfo Journals sometime in July this year. Since then. we’ve made just two posts. What is UsaStudyInfo and how did I get involved? I met the lady in question on Nairaland where she had the user id Consultant. I’d been looking for resources on transferring to a different school [...]

Status

Date: December 3rd, 2006 Tags:

I tried installing Slackware today. I was too lazy to look up the parameters for fdisk and cfdisk, so I got out my Fedora DVD and wiped my second hard disk clean (there’s a Fedora install on it but my Windows Vista RC1 installation erased GRUB and installed its own tacky boot loader). Dumb me! [...]