It’s amazing that it has taken about 63 years for the design of the UK eletric plug to be so radically improved but that is just what a student of the Royal College of Arts has done. Min-Kyu Choi showcased his design at the college’s graduate show and seems to have been a deserved “show-stopper”. The main attraction to this design I believe is how it manages to compress the plug into a very sleek and compact component without loosing any functionality. Read more

It’s refreshing to see Chimamanda Adichie, one of Nigeria’s brightest and talented authors, featured on TEDtalks. In this video, she examines how our lives and cultures are composed of many overlapping stories. It’s a very eloquent and compelling case against people judging others based on stereotypes and misconceptions.

Firefox already allows users to automatically search (Google) straight from the address bar by just typing a term or phrase. However, by default, it doesn’t show the results rather it just goes to the most likely website using a Google feature called “browse by name”. This blog entry explains how to take advantage of the internal settings of Firefox to provide us the search results page of Google itself. It’s a Firefox “hack” which provides so much convenience that you may never have to visit Google.com again! Read more

For a film that involves itself with touchy issues such as race and prejudice in the South African context, the only real political landmine that emerged was the singling out and negative labelling of Nigerians. What the District 9 film makers did was to provide the audience with an easily recognisable ‘enemy’ in order for the film to be more realistic- unfortunately to the embarassment of Nigerians. The shame for doesn’t end there though as the government bans the film from being shown in Nigeria only generating more interest. But is the District 9 movie really the problem here or is it a case of over protecting the “9ja” brand? Continue reading

I’ve been using my Nokia N97 for about two months and after the initial excitement about the phone’s release, I feel compelled to give my thoughts about the device so far. I had very high expectations for the phone, so much so that I held back on upgrading my old Nokia E61 for 6 months until the phone finally came out in the UK. And who wouldn’t; with specs like 32GB of phone memory, a 5 mega-pixel Carl Zeiss camera with flash and the ultimate combination of touch-screen and QWERTY keyboard as just some of the highlights.

As Google always does on holidays or special events, they theme the famous homepage logo with an artisitc (and usually witty) doodle. I’ve always found it easy to identify what event is depicted based on the picture, but today’s doodle is a bit of a head scratcher. Can you make out what it is? Continue reading»

Today I got news I’ve been waiting for some time now. Vodafone UK has just updated their website and confirmed that the glorious Nokia 97 will be available on their network from July. Since I first heard that Nokia would be coming out with a touch screen-QWERTY combination, I have been scratching around for every bit of news about the product and when it would be out in the UK.

Today, I’m sharing one of my favourite TEDTalks videos. It’s by Sir Ken Robinson about the role of schools in creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

So, I have finally re-launched my blog after a rather long absence from the blogosphere. My first attempt never really got off the ground anyway, and I decided to deactivate “Make the most” to allow for a redesign of my website, amongst other things. Read on »