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The Death of Mobile Signature?
This is one of the painful posts I have had to write in my life, but it is a post that must be written.
In 2004, I started utilising the services of the company to host some of my clients websites. The service was ok. Then it started degrading. As a believer in giving people opportunities, I persisted. After all, this was a young man trying to make a living in this difficult country.
But, it seems Mobile Signature could not manage its success. They expanded. Moved to bigger offices. Employed more personnel. But their service did not improve. Support calls not being answered. Services paid for not activated. Customer care officers just being rude.
Now all contact numbers are switched off. Emails delivered, not replied. Now, am on a man hunt for members of staff of Mobile Signature Ltd. Not to cause them harm, but to find a way of retrieving my domains which are locked in with them. I have lost a number of customers because of their poor lack of service.
Update: removed the name of one of the founding members of the company because he requested I remove it.
Beware of Fraud – Interswitch
A mail is going around, sent by http://www.interdatabase.net claiming to be from Interswitch. Please note that is a faudulent site. DO NOT ENTER YOUR CARD DETAILS.
I did a whois on the domain, and the registrant has gone to great lengths to hide his/her/their identity. As you can see from the whois information, it was registered on 15 October 2008. It screams FAKE all the way. Please be careful.
I did some investigating on the site, viewing the source, I found a link http://www.abbey.co.uk/CsAppsExp/Abbey/Internet/Abbey/html/demo_html_ebanking_0.htm Unless the fraudster is from the UK, I do not know the correlation.
When you submit the form, no matter what you input, it always sends you to an error page. Ofcourse, they must have stored your information.
The error page then takes you to another page, claiming to "update your information". Still fake.
^^ is the actual interswitch website.
Please pass this message to your friends.
Samuel Peters, abadie?
Translated, my title is "Samuel Peters, how are things?". The typical answer, from Ibibio speaking people, is Nfana Ibaga (meaning, "no problem" or literally, "problem has finished"). But I doubt is SP will be giving that answer.
The guy lost the match. Sometimes, I am grateful that I do not watch sports. The heartbreak caused by watching him lose would have been too much for me to handle. I read about it in papers and on the Internet. I also got this lovely picture of him (from AOL Homepage). Link to the news article. Link to image gallery.
Ouch! That has got to hurt.
Webpage is optimized for Windows Explorer
I guess it is easy to say that when you have time long enough on the web, you get to see some things that others do not see. Then again, you come across some things so strange (never before seen by you).
This webpage (shown above) is optimized for “Windows Explorer”, not Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox or Opera or Safari or Chrome. No. You can only enjoy visiting the site if you open the web pages using Windows Explorer.
Now, officially, I have seen strange things.
Still Here
I know I have posted in a while. Been trying to put together a new project. I hope this works wells. Only 4 Naija. Watch out.
From China with Noise
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
ihoho – naked
ihoho is a little project I just started. It is meant to be a photoblog. Some pictures that I find fascinating will be posted there. Initially, I intended it for showcasing piictures of beautful nigerian ladies (which I will eventually convert it to), but for now, I’ll just show some pictures I find on the web.
The name “ihoho” is yoruba for Naked. The reason for the name is because I wanted to showcase the beauty of the nigerian female without any cosmetic hindrances. Hence, the reason for the “naked”. Sorry, no porn there.
Its Christmas. And?
Do not misunderstand me, Christmas is lovely and wonderful. I love it. I desperately love it. But folks nowadays have a tendency to overdo some things in the spirit of celebration.
Fireworks, crackers and as they are well known here – bangers. Why would someone light a cracker and throw it into a bus filled with people? Or light it in a shop?
Even I have had my fair share of misbehaving with crackers. December 1998, I threw a cracker into our toilet to see the effect of water raising from the explosion. I leave the rest to your imagination. No, I don’t. I’ll tell you what happened. I rendered the toilet unusable for days. Water was leaking to the flat of our neighbours living on the floor below us. I lost quite a lot of pocket money.
Last year, 2006, I had to get fuel for my generator. No filling station operating so I had to settle for black market. People were comfortable throwing bangers in our direction when we were tranferring feul from keg to jerry can. Haba, respect the power of fuel.
On a brighter note, I expect that you will send me my share of whatever you eat. Email it to me, zipped of course. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidys and a fulfilling New Year.
Definitely wrong
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 not make noise through out the night (or maybe they did). What could it be?”. Don’t blame me, this man only complains. He lives for it. And yes, I was right, it was a complaint. This time it was with regards to the water tank.
I heard some whispers, someone had died. My neighbours wife died over the night. He was called by his in-laws around some minutes past 12. She had been sick for months. Could not go to church.
Around 1pm, the burial was done (I did not attend). Around 3pm, her folks came to pack her belongings <- this is what I have issues with. The lady is dead barely 15 hours and the family were already fighting over her property.
A statement made included “we do not want another woman to use her property”. Oh stuff it somewhere the sun don’t shine. The head of the “mob” was her immediate younger brother who was living with them uptill a while ago. I am on this man’s side even if he is wrong (though I do not see how). The lady had some expensive things, agreed, but she was not working. Meaning that this same man was the buying this things for her, yet her family would insult him over them.
The marriage is less than 2 years and they had no kids.
I have seen things that I do not understand.
Many folks are saying the guy should skip the mourning and go ahead with looking for a new wife. What is your view?
