March, 2010

Ideas — 9 Comments
24
Mar 10

Pouring forth Ideas.

IdeasPlease don’t believe the cartoon :)

Not boasting, I am an ideas man! When I auditioned for the now defunct Intern TV Show back in Nigeria, I claimed I had about 20 business ideas written down, I lied, it was about 50 :)

Enough of the weak attempt at boasting.

There is a very big downside of having so many ‘great ideas’, it is easy to get distracted when trying to execute any one, because the other ones seem more exciting.  And after a while of just talking about the so many things you could be doing without delivering, you can start loosing credibility. Unfortunately, if you are good at generating ideas, you just cant stop having them so they just keep distracting you.

I battled with this for a while years before I decided to commit to OnePage. It is the longest project I have ever committed to in my life and it is possible only because I found my man Joel who I could execute with. Every once in a while though, I get distracted and  tell him of another great idea, he is now used to it . My former housemate Wale and a few of my friends can also testify about me harassing him with my ideas.

The main reason I tell people of my ideas is because once it has been done, it no longer crosses my mind and it means less distraction. Unfortunately, I have met very few people willing to work on my ideas therefore I have reached the limit of having them lying around in my head. It is getting too distracting.

Towards this end, I have resolved to blog about my ideas hoping there will someone willing to take it up. (I can hear Joel heaving a sign of relief)

I will start pouring them forth hopefully, at the rate of one a week.

Disclaimers:

  1. Not all my ideas are commercial some are very social in nature. Some are outright fun projects.
  2. Not all my ideas will be brilliant to you. Most will be outright dumb to you, no vex.
  3. Ideas on their own are valued at near Zero. It is all about the execution.
  4. Ideas are easier ideaed said than done. It will definitely not be as easy as I’ll attempt to make it sound.
  5. I am sure all my ideas are not original as people think up stuff at the same time around the world. I just have not heard about it.
  6. Some ideas are blatant replication (I will clearly indicate) but the ‘idea’ is in the application in another scenario. e.g. applying something in US to Nigeria.
  7. Some ideas would have been got from some people, if I remember who, I will credit the person, if not, I’ll say so
  8. Everyone has ideas, so I am not claiming any monopoly of ideas.
  9. My idea posts are just to ignite a spark and are not indented to be a complete business plan. The commercial viability of anything I put out will have to be checked out buy you if you intend moving further with it. If you are interested in anyone of them, I am willing to send more information your way…if I like :)

So watch out for my first idea post, coming soon!

Nigeria / Politics — No Comments
15
Mar 10

When A Dictionary Enters The Wrong Hands: The Case Of Hon Patrick “Igodomigodo” Obahiagbon.

The video below contains the reaction of Obahiagbon, a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives to the deployment of troops by the Nigerian Army Chief without the knowledge of the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan.

 

To be fair to him, he does not speak this way intentionally. From an interview  with vanguard, he said:

Sincerely speaking, I want to tender an unreserved apologia to my colleagues and all those who feel that my language is obscurantist. The truth is that I do not set out deliberately to mystify my audience, to deposit my audience in a portmanteau of indecipherability or in portmanteau of conundrum. No, no, no, no! Far from it.

Apologia accepted sir!

Self / Technology — 34 Comments
13
Mar 10

O2 Broadband: The Fastest Internet Connection I have Ever Had!

O2 Broadband Speet Test Birmingham

Update: It has been pointed out that my screen shot says it is BT that is ISP. I don’t know the reason it shows that, but it is O2 We pay our money to :)

My Internet has arrived and it is bloody fast!! If you live online, you will understand my excitement.

The first time I used O2 broadband was not so pleasant. But since I did not know details of the package, I decided to give them another try. Hell Yeah, it was the right one!

We are paying for the 15 Mb/s unlimited package but that speed is theoretical as it depends on distance and the number of people using the connection at a particular point in time. So I am very pleased with the 11.78 Mb/s we have. Did I tell you we are paying 10 pounds a month?

There is a down side of having fast internet connection when you are building a web application like OnePage.  You cannot determine how the site speed will be for the users by using it yourself, as your connection will be faster than 90% of the connection of your users. Therefore, you have to fully rely on cloud based website testing services.

This is the fastest internet connection I have ever used, I am just hoping it stays this way. You can visit www.speedtest.net to check out how fast your own is. You can let me know in the comment area if yours is slower. If you have something faster, keep it to yourself. :) .

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Nigeria / Politics — No Comments
8
Mar 10

General David Mark Can Become President

 

David Mark

Very few people realise that if anything happens to Goodluck Jonathan, (be it the Abiola flavoured tea or a Yaradua styled vacation), General David Mark becomes Acting President of Nigeria. Yes, the Senate President is next in line after Jonathan. That will be the return of the Military, agbada or no agbada. Make no mistake, General Mark will not be as feeble and indecisive as Jonathan, he was a General in the Army. If/when that happens, the game changes completely and not in a good way.

The North-South bullshit.

Whenever the Nigerian masses try to group and get the criminal politicians out of power, they quickly throw the North-South/Muslim-Christian joker card and we stupidly fall for it again and again. I have two questions, what exactly has the North benefitted from the Yaradua presidency? What did the south benefit from the Obasanjo presidency? I hope we open our eyes and realise that WHATEVER THE PRESIDENCY, THE VERY SAME PEOPLE ARE STILL IN POWER. There are people benefitting immensely from the current impasse we have in the Nigerian presidency and we the other 99.9% of Nigerians are not among. Having Jonathan as the sole man in the presidency when we all know Yaradua will not return, is a VERY VERY risky business and the people ensuring the status quo remains know why.

Personally, I am tired of this bullshit! I am tired of my country with so much potential wasting away!  I do not care if the president is from Gambia or Japan, Nigeria needs a leader that will put the interest of the Nigerian people first and that is not happening.

Well, as long as we the ‘Nigerian masses’ deem the results of the next Premier League matches more important than the future of our country or Beyonce’s latest video a more sexy topic for discussion than the politics of Nigeria, let us prepare for the next hearty meal of SHIT that the criminals running the country will keep giving us.

Go get your plates, lunch is served!

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