Oladipo Ademola Esq

I love using Nokia phones. Even better than the iPhone, but one drawback exists. Nokia refused to implement a USB charging system. Now, Nokia, that is just plain stupid. In this age, with the USB power source becoming ubiquitous.

“In information technology, Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve the plug-and-play capabilities by allowing hot swapping, that is, by allowing devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the computer or turning off the device. Other convenient features include providing power to low-consumption devices without the need for an external power supply and allowing many devices to be used without requiring manufacturer specific, individual device drivers to be installed.

USB is intended to help retire all legacy varieties of serial and parallel ports. USB can connect computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards, PDAs, gamepads and joysticks, scanners, digital cameras, printers, personal media players, and flash drives. For many of those devices USB has become the standard connection method. USB was originally designed for personal computers, but it has become commonplace on other devices such as PDAs and video game consoles, and as a bridging power cord between a device and an AC adapter plugged into a wall plug for charging purposes. As of 2008, there are about 2 billion USB devices in the world.^[1]

The design of USB is standardized by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), an industry standards body incorporating leading companies from the computer and electronics industries. Notable members have included Agere (now merged with LSI Corporation), Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Intel, NEC, and Microsoft.”

Thanks Wikipedia

I currently use a Nokia E61i and intend moving to the next grail, E71

Numerous competing devices already support USB charging. Blackberry phones support USB charging. The iPhone supports USB charging. Chinese phones support USB charging.

The benefits of USB are immense. Charge and sync is one. Easy access to power is another, I can easily plug into almost any USB and quickly receive a charge. Lighter, I wont need to carry around the bulky power adaptor, just a simple USB cable.

Nokia, wake up. You are a market leader, and that lead is rapidly diminishing.

Nokia developers, here read this note (http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/usb_stuff.html)

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.

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?

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.

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

I just had an idea for a service that will impress a lot of people

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

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