Oladipo Ademola Esq

Its a Sunday, am at home. Watching TV. A favorite show comes, you guessed it, Fuji House of Commotion (last time I checked, the site was dead). Now in my honest opinion, this is one of the most successful shows on Nigerian TV.

In this episode, Rabiu has a girlfriend who has a ride and does not know he comes form a polygamous home. While outside, someone suggests going out (he? she? i can’t remember), but anyways he does not have cash and makes an excuse. She brings out her ATM card, an ECOBANK branded ATM card. Now, I have seen many movies and shows to know that product placement can really help some companies, but must it be so obvious.
He manages to sneak her into the compound, does some cat and mouse game with his father, into the living room, past the fuji mob and into kazeem’s room. Kazeem comes home, and does almost the same routine in getting her out. Blah, blah, blah. The usual fuji theatrics are utilized (nothing new there).

His mother is coming, he sends his girldfriend off. Naturally, mama asks who that was, excuses given. Mama queried as to where she is coming from. She advertises ECOBANK esusu services. Again, it is obvious they are advertising.

Is it that we do not know how to implement unobtrusive and subtle product placement or is Fuji House of Commotion officially for sale?

Any one who has visited my site recently would notice the multitude of widgets I installed all in a desperate bid to gain traffic. I thought they would have a magical touch to bring a flood of traffic to my humble blog, alas I was wrong. With my head down and my hands raised high, I humbly submit to the “god” of the Internet. I realise I can not do it own my own, I am now “net born again”.

If you per chance come across this post, please post a comment and include your website. I will definitely visit.

I got this picture from somewhere on the net, owners you know yourselves.

This is a sober post. It is related to the death of a reggae icon, Lucky Dube. I never knew the guy, am not a fan of reggae music.

I was browsing the net after hearing of the news of his death. I got to his site and the news page had this entry

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03 August 2007

This morning was a very special day in our office. The phone was, and still is ringing off the hook. It is Lucky’s birthday. We wish to thank everybody that phoned in, to wish him a happy day. So far, he got, cake, chocolates, lots of flowers and fruit. He came to the office, still in his pyjamas, we just had a ball. This was the noisiest office in the building. Radio stations were talking about it all morning. He says he has had enough cake now already, he is now waiting for those cars, the helicopters, and some dollars, well he got 2 dollars from his sons. That is a start. From our noisy office here in sunny Johannesburg, we thank you all for making it such a special day for Lucky and all of us. We all say HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCKY DUBE. Some of the letters that came in, say…

May God bless you with more and more years, so you can continue to bless us with your music…Nigeria  <-the prayer that was not answered

Our lives as reggae lovers are in complete without your music, happy birthday, have many more…Nicaragua

Come spend your birthday with me and my friends we are hot girls from Springs…South Africa

I can do anything to make your birthday an unforgettable one…USA

The day you were born, heaven smiled upon you, you brought that smile WITH YOU to the people of the world. Happy Birthday Mr Dube…Germany.

You should organise a live concert on the net, to celebrate with all your fans around the world, happy birth day…Australia

We got tons of emails all wishing Dube good, there were a few poems that came in, we were surprised how people use Lucky;s music to rhyme and create some wonderful things ,oh!!! Man!!!! I don’t have words to describe it.

Thank you Thank you Thank you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCKY DUBE………..YEAH !!!!

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Its a shame. The killing of a genius.

Using this opportunity to wish  TuFace Idibia a quick recovery (if he is not out of the hospital yet)

I was wondering aimlessly on the web when I came across this post.

My comment? I have a layout for my living room

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This post would seem egoistical (whatever that word means). I started a blog that aims to showcase some nigerian music.

[I will update this post l8r, I've got a block]

Update: the link is http://9jasite.com/audioblog

Just when I thought it could not get worse, I “re-”came across Wema Bank’s website. I was having a discussion with a friend about the propects and pitfalls of the web design business in Nigeria. To prove a point that some sites are not designed to make an impact, I offered to open up the sites of some Nigerian banks – Zenith Bank, GTB Plc, Wema Bank.

I knew (had known for a while) that Wema Bank’s site was not well designed (am being generous there), I opened it as a representation of poor design.

Even though their site is poorly designed, it helped me prove a point. How can a bank go live with “nothing”. Its a shame. They could have placed an “Under Construction” or “Undergoing Recapitalisation” sign on the page. It would have made more sense.

And frankly, this design sucks.

I had just left the meeting where we discussed a new project starting on Monday (I still don’t know what my role is). I logged in, checked my mail, viewed my blog (as usual, no comments). Removed a post, changed my theme, looked at the listings showing on my BlogRush widget, clicked and read.

While I was there, I came across a post (too lazy to open my history window to get the link), and he discusses NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). I signed up though I am not sure if I’ll participate. I saw the Blog Friday advert, and am like this is easy.

Okay, now you know how I got here. I am supposed to post a blog about the word of the week “achievement”. I really don’t know to write without repeating the word. I know I have a theasaurus somewhere – just can’t remember where it is.

I’ll use the word once more in the next sentence and fill up with gibberish. I have finally found a purpose to blog (without just blogging randomly), I guess it can be called an achievement.

What do these three have in common? Their activities are mostly at night. Thats right, they are nocturnal folks. While we can not do much for the first two (if they exist) there is a new site the third set, http://www.midnitecaller.com (sometimes, geeks have weak imagination – wonder what their kids would be named {daddy v2.1})

Anyways, midnitecaller.com is a social networking site for people interested in talking all night. The site promises to be filled with resources for people who are addicted to waiting for 12:30 am with 100 naira worth of credit in their phone.

Its a joint project by I and a friend (http://www.castlenetng.com), oh and it is free now and ever. I swear.

This is my profile link: http://www.midnitecaller.com/africanboy

My music collection is roughly 10gb (I know some folks have a lot more – how many can you listen to anyway).

With reference to a post I made on Nairaland, here is the list

My Music List as at 4 October 2007

For the non technically inclined, I used the tree command at command prompt

tree /f /a >> c:\gbedu.txt

No, I am not dead. And I am not dying, at not that I know of.

This is the picture of the last meal I had with my former boss. It was my birthday. 2005. I left his employ in 2006.

Sorry, I do not have a picture of meal before the