Nigerians and observers alike have been very critical of the presidential elections that recently occurred in the motherland. I don't want to suggest that I settle for less or that how the elections were run are acceptable, however, it is true that a baby doesn't start running because the adults around it can walk. As a friend of mine reminded me today, there is a country to east of Nigeria whose president has been in power for 26 years! We need to appreciate the small victories however insignificant...

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Via Dare's post: Define: Servant, I came to find out that some of my Nigerian brethren did not take kindly to his description of the fellow in the picture below as a "servant". Check out http://naijaman.cfmxdevelop... and http://grandioseparlor.com/... Should his picture have called the gentleman a "houseboy" or something kinder? Should he have not shown the picture at all? I might have taken umbrage to the picture taking if Dare hadn't...

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Dare posts On the $100 Laptop and Africa and the post evoked a couple of responses. Just to level-set with everyone, I'm Nigerian and this isn't only by association i.e.having a Nigerian last name. I'm just as “Nigerian“ as the next “authentic“ Nigerian you can find. I definitely see where Dare is coming from, afterall I remember being in a conversation with someone who considered themselves enlightened. We were discussing the misuse of money in the US. This individual actually...

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The Web rocks. Two years ago Clemens posted this dllhost.exe.config dilemma fixed, at last -- by Microsoft. I had to look into something today and it definitely works so I'll summarize again: Specify a directory as your COM+ applications root directory Place a file named application.manifest in this directory - the file must be named this Place a file named application .config in this directory - application.manifest forces the application to look for application.config hence this file must also...

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Everyone should read this: What are you

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Ephraim Schwartz posts Microsoft is stuck on the C: drive . I must confess, working for an ISV, I think about this alot and the way it would potentially change the business landscape. I wonder if ISVs would now begin to invest in the hardware their clients previously purchased. I wonder about revenue generation. I wonder about software updates. I wonder about support. I wonder about a lot of things

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Clemens posts Visual Studio Overload And The Specialization Gamble and Taulty posts .NET 2.0: How far it's come as somewhat of a response. As a solutions architect, I can't even begin to explain how overwhelming it is at times trying to wrap my mind around the different technologies coming down the pipeline even though they are all .NET-based. Today it's LINQ, tomorrow its Workflow, next week it's Avalon and in 3 months its C# 3.0. Good thing we have blogs, syndication, RSS and ATOM...

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For the longest time (ok up till 1am this morning), I browsed out to the websites to get the latest published content. Yeah, call me slow...anyway I ended up looking for a news aggregator. I stumbled across "Attensa for Outlook“ which I promptly installed. So far its working out ok. I will say that after installing this, I realized how important it is to me that I be able to use “fewer applications to accomplish more”. It makes sense for all my “aggregators” to be managed...

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After much persuasion, I've finally given in to the “blog” craze. I don't know where I'm going to find the time to post consistently with the busy schedule I keep, but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to work something out. If you really want to get to know me and what I do, feel free to contact me directly. I think the fact that my blog is hosted by “geekswithblogs” says it all. In addition to the software stuff, I'm an avid football (soccer in the US) fan and I will post on...

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