November 2007
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 30, 2007
I joined Nairaland on January 30, 2006, then it had approximately 12,000 members, of which less than 3000 were active posters. Compared with today, 153,753 members, must really be an achievement. I remember when members virtually celebrated the coming on board of the 20,000th member. Then people started looking forward to the the 25,000th member, [...]
Posted in Nigeria, Other Blogs, Pondering
| Tagged forums, memories
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 30, 2007
I had a discussion with a friend over the weekend, concerning christians and movies. Bone of contention: a pornographic movie laying on my brother’s bed (dropped there by me while rearranging my room, and yes the movie is mine). Transcript (as much as I remember)
Him: this kind of movies are not good for you
Me: why?
Him: they corrupt [...]
Posted in Pondering
| Tagged christianity, movies
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 28, 2007
Things must be looking up for Yahoozee crooner.
In his words, “cos if I hammer, first thing na hummer, one million dollars, elo lo ma je tin ba se si naira“. From what I am seeing through my window, I don’t think he has “hammered” yet. Olu came to the car dealer to negotiate the [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Lagos, Music, Nigeria, Pondering
| Tagged cars, Entertainment
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 27, 2007
I am working on a project, coding in PHP (a language I am still relatively new in) and I have to consume a web service written in ASP.NET. And yes, I had to provide support in writing the web service, so I know quite a bit about how it works, internally.
My headaches started with consuming [...]
Posted in Brain Damage, Web Design, Work
| Tagged .NET, Headaches, php, Web Services
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 23, 2007
Am pinging myself just to confirm that I am still alive. Need to finish up on some projects.
NigerianWeblogs.net is still on track?
Posted in Personal
| Tagged me
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 16, 2007
2am (I think). Friday 16 November 2007. Silverbird TV. Legends of Nollywood with Paul Obazele.
I worked through the night to get a demo of a website ready for the morning, the programme came on and I decided to invest 30 minutes into educating myself (yeah right!). Paul featured the director/producerof “Two Good Friends” featuring Mr [...]
Posted in Business, Culture, Entertainment, Nigeria, Pondering
| Tagged Fooling, Nollywood
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 16, 2007
Been having a little pain in my jaw for a couple of days (2 days actually), woke up this morning to find myself infected with Facial Palsy (also known as Bell’s Palsy). Second time it is affecting me. Previously infected some years ago on the left side. Now it is the right side.
Somebody help. Good thing [...]
Posted in Personal
| Tagged Face, Illness
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 5, 2007
Sunday morning, November 4 2007, 6am. I woke up and had this feeling that I was not going to go to church. I went back to sleep.
I woke up to hear my name is screamed. “What?”. “The landlord wants to see you”. “Not again? My generator is bad, so it can’t be that. My dogs did [...]
Posted in Culture, Family, Nigeria, Personal
| Tagged church, Culture, death, me, Nigeria, yoruba
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By
Oladipo MD on
November 5, 2007
I apologise the long delay in getting a new post out. I have been a little busy, have to put food on the table, otherwise I would starve to death. Just kidding, no dying yet.
Posted in Personal
| Tagged back, death, Personal, return, welcome
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