The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday in Lagos released the names of top five nominees for the Glo/CAF African Footballer of the Year Awards slated for Togo February 1, 2008. But surprisingly, no Nigerian player makes the list dominated by Super Eagles Nations Cup foes. Three of the five nominees are from Cote […]
Heard By a Bird: December 3
"Formerly my art centered on spirituality, but now it’s about coatracks." – Jim Dine Did you see the cloud resembling a left tonsil over Highmount last Wednesday? A Letter Dear Sparrow The Scribe: Have you ever been to a leaf-catching party? Usually I go to at least two each autumn. The idea is quite simple: […]
Giuliani Admits Stealing!
The Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani admits stealing in an article in the Friday, November 23rd, 2007 NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/us/politics/23food.html?ref=politics As he campaigns in Iowa our would-be president can be seen "And on a springtime stop at a pizzeria in Des Moines, he traveled from table to table of voters, filching some of their food as […]
Barclays Bank Boycott To Protest Eminent Domain Abuse
People concerned about the rights of others should boycott Barclays Bank due to its participation in the eminent domain abuse scheme in the borough of Brooklyn in the City of New York, USA. Barclays, a British bank with branches in America, agreed to pay the developer Forest City Ratner over $305 million for naming […]
Wireless Local Area Network
Historical Background: As we peep in the history of Networking we will find that inn 1971, the researchers at the University of Hawaii developed the world’s first WLAN , or in full form the wireless local area network which was named as ALOHAnet .The ALOHnet was spposed to be the bi-directional or two way directional […]
Baseball gives another A-OK to steroids
<p class="MsoNormal">The so-called “issue” of steroid use is made nearly irrelevant by the pundits on both sides who seek to include all sports – there’s a crisis in cycling, there’s debate in baseball, there’s no problem in hockey. <span style=""> </span>I guess that means it all averages out, doesn’t it?<o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is a shame.<span style=""> […]