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Michael the Ultimate
Gulder Ultimate Search 5 has come and gone. Thank God.
As it is the custom with all Ultimate Searches, the second man to get to the location finds the treasure. Like clockwork, Michael emerged the fifth ultimate man.
Congratulations Mike.
ID on the Street
In continuation to the previous post, I also checked ID on the Street website.
Nice design. The only question, why am I registering? What is the purpose?
The site has a familiar face. Login and register buttons, but no reason to register. Why should I give you my email address, name and gsm number? What are you offering?
Haba, Kennis Music, Essence, Oleku
Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work. (Thanks Wikipedia)
I was watching Prime Time Africa. I don’t like those guys. Ever since they refused to see me in 2002 when I presented them a concept for a website. ID saw me but did not attend to me, just shooed me away like a piece of dirt. Kenny, just not my type of TV personality. D-One, nice guy, wrong crowd.
I decided to google PrimeTime Africa, because I have Unlimited Internet Access and nothing to do. I came across Essence’s website.
No, you are not drunk. That is the “special effect”. I looked at the source of the page to get the url of the flash file. I noticed ”
<!– Mirrored from www.ankaman.net/aj/index2.html by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2007], Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:43:33 GMT –> “
And I am like, I understand if you have to look at a previous work to get inspiration or to copy. But to leave this comment in the page is just unacceptable. Oleku, you can do better.
Essence’s Site
Anami Jordan (www.anamijordan.com). Either the site has been changed, or
Oleku did a good facelift job.
OMG, Bernie Mac is dead
I was at my desk. I was working. I was watching the television. I heard the news. I learnt that Bernie Mac had passed on.
I screamed. I shouted. I calmed down. I googled “Bernie Mac”. I confirmed the news. Officially, I am mourning the death of a lovely comedian. Never met the guy, but I make sure I do not miss his show on the tube.
Painful.
Some links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Mac
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b23027_bernie_mac_dead_50.html
http://respectance.com/Bernie_Mac/memorial
Making a Difference
I just had an idea for a service that will impress a lot of people
From China with Noise
Yesterday evening, I decided to change my routine and took a stroll into the neighborhood. You know, enjoy the scenery. Took a while. On my way back, it was dark and suddenly it was dark. with the abrupt change of visibility came the familiar “Oh Nepa!”
As usual, PHCN has struck again. Counting, I think this was the sixth time it was happening today. Not strange anymore.
Suddenly again, visibility increased. Light is back, but this time, it came with noise. Lots of noise. Generators. Everywhere. Everybody had a generator. From extra small generators to extra large. Insane. Generators everywhere.
I reflected on the situation, when PHCN gives light, there is noise. When PHCN takes light, there is more noise. The initial noise comes from the speakers of those chinese electronics. Everybody can afford a hi-power sound system, as long as it plays. Loudly. Also, everybody can afford a generator, even if it is the small type.
All these made possible by the help of the chinese manufacturers. They are everywhere
Seriously, Gulder “Ultimate” Search?
Every day, I dread 9pm. Actually, I dread watching the program Gulder Ultimate Search. The initial show was interesting because it had a vision (and was fresh). Every iteration after that has been as appalling as the worst adjective that appalling can describe. This last edition, “The Lost Chronicles” is the worst of bunch.
They actually selected 10 people out of 25,000 to spend a couple of days in the jungle. Doing what? Trying out activities achievable by my siblings in the nursery school. And those guys and ladies actually find it difficult.
Imagine a jungle scene with a bright light shining on your face. And you are supposed to be scared? Or they ask you to go find something, how can you not find it when there is a camera man standing there to film you coming. Gulder ultimate Search was a novel idea. I use “was” because that is what it is. A past (dead?) novel idea.
They need to inject fresh ideas into the series, not just making it a marketing platform for the launch of a new gulder product or the revealing of a re-branded product.
How about nationwide searches for clues that will enable them select the final contestants? How about an actual search during the program? How about pitching ten people against each other instead of grouping them. After all, it is for an ultimate person not an ultimate group.
Am categorizing this under jokes, because, in my honest opinion, it fits
Beyonce vs Rihanna
Who said we do not have guts in Nigeria. This title is the exact
title of a Nigerian movie, the trailer I saw on Silverbird TV today.
The story is about two singing sensations who fall in love with the
same guy (someone remind of this guy who learnt his foreign accent
while living in naija, black guy, yes. You remember him? Jim Iyke). Blah. Blah.
Blah. The usual scenes from a typical nigerian movie.
They actually duel it out in a singing contest. Boy, I would love to
see Omotola Jolade and the unknown actress slug it out in a singing
contest. More grease to their throats.
My Spam
“Akismet has protected your site from 1,000 spam comments already, but there’s nothing in your spam queue at the moment.”
I guessed any reason is good enough to celebrate. Here is to 1,000 caught spam. I guess my blog is somehow popular, if only to spammers
