A forest fire which started on 2nd june on the Pakistan side of the Line of Control, separating Indian and Pakistan, in Mendhar area of district Poonch has spread to this side of the border and is threatening to engulf every thing which comes in its way. In fact the extreme heat has lead to […]
Lagos: A city under siege
This piece cost me three thousand naira to write and a lecture from the street school of experience. My car had displayed a niggling problem for a while, deciding to flat-line in the most unbelievable places for no reason at all, so my mechanic, Martin (in Lagos, they make house calls) and I decided […]
Is Lebanese military a weakling?
What kind of military does Lebanon have? It’s really hard to imagine why on earth the Lebanese military is having difficulty crushing at least 200 al-Qaeda inspired Muslim militants now holed up inside the Palestinian refugee camps in Tripoli? With some 40,000 soldiers at its disposal, the Lebanese military is considered weak based […]
Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]
Teach refugees the language of adopted country
A sad reality, indeed, to know that some four million Iraqi refugees have yet to find a better place to migrate. And the question always boils down as to who caused these refugees to go astray? Isn’t it the unrest and wars now going on in some countries in Africa and the Middle East? Most […]
Fooling fools in cyberspace
“Shit!" That’s my reaction today after I opened my e-mail inbox at yahoo. Sometimes, you just can’t help it as what I did. But there are occasions when you just couldn’t’t hold back your fuse from being busted. In short, I was bombed at a certain point when some people think that you’re really […]