Posts by Azuka

Comment Spam

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 […]

Update! Update!

I’ve been getting calls to update when I would rather sleep. Four days is really a long time in the blogosphere. For want of something to say, I’ll leave you with someone I became fascinated with. He owns the year 2007, and his codename is 007 — yes, his name is Bond, James Bond. Entertainment […]

English Names

I was somewhere between five and six years old playing on the veranda of our house with my elder brother and some of the neighborhood kids. What we’d been doing remains a blur to me, although I think it was somehow related to ‘cooking’ with sand and leaves. “My English name is Fred,” Nonso, one […]

Of Blogs and Blogging V

I must confess I’ve been quite lazy for the past few weeks — as well as busy on the WritingInn and AUGNG websites. I’d almost lost interest in continuing the series until Nino of Akopo asked if he could translate it into French. I figured that if my miserable attempt is worth translating into French, […]

The Calls

I had two important calls yesterday. For some reason Tracfone doesn’t allow calls to or from Nigeria so my Dad had to bring the entire family to his office to talk with me on Skype. I haven’t heard my mom’s voice in a long, long while and I was happy to catch up with the […]

All Business

It’s all business here — that is, if you call sleeping and eating business. I recently purchased a domain name, WritingInn.com and I think that’s where I’ll be putting up a writing community. Nikita‘s going to get some competition (he owns Outputwriting), or will we exchange ideas? Hard to say at this moment. Speaking of […]