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Learning

October 18, 2012 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life • Tags: coda 2, dreamweaver, learning, photoshop, tutorial, website, wordpress •

Learning is a very wondeful thing. I have been at the school of learning in the past few weeks, most of the learning has been through books of course, but then, where else are we told to go other than to our books. I know it is easier to learn from Youtube and other video sources but then I digress.
I have learnt something about how some companies are run, how to design websites with Dreamweaver, and how to mock-up a website with Photoshop, while at it, I learnt about using the photoshop mock-up to create a website in Dreamweaver and it was one of those Aha! moments, it just blew me away. After that I delved into the world of WordPress. Yes I know I am already using WordPress on my site. But after the few things I just learnt, I asked myself would it be so bad to try and develop and WordPress theme and donate to the WordPress repository as a means of giving back to the system. And that is how the journey began, the journey to become a wordpress theme developer.
I have already developed a theme with assistance from a tutorial I read in a mag and I could see my name as theme developer and all that but I need to do something from the scratch which will require learning some PHP, CSS and improving my HTML as well as Photoshop manipulation but then it is good so far though I have found Coda 2 an intersting piece of software but still learning to use it.
Now in this quest, the first question is this, How do you convert a Dreamweaver site to a WordPress theme? I have seen some stuff out there and I hope to post tutorials when I learn anything in this quest but I will appreciate any help.
Thanks

End of the Road

September 12, 2012 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life • Tags: Data, issues, life, MTN Nigeria •

How times change and very quickly indeed.
I started using cellphones the moment the original gsm licenses were issued in Nigeria 2001 and I have been using them till now.
In my 11 years of using the various networks, most of my cash has gone to one network in particular and that network is MTNng
I have sworn over their reliable service in my area among friends and colleagues. I use their postpaid, their prepaid and even their data cards and sims for my network.
To say I’m invested in MTN is an understatement my data networking revolves around them.
I got the blackberry for myself a few years after I got it for my wife and we have been using it since then every where we went. So much that I got a quarterly blackberry subscription to use with my device.
A few months ago, I noticed that the quality of the service, data-wise had dropped from the regular 3G to EDGE. I waited about a week, hoping that it would change and go back to its normal state, after seeing no change, I made a call to the customer service and the lady though nice, seemed to be more interested in making sure I got the new security code thing that The company is peddling. I told her my problem and she gave the routine customer service tale of maybe there were a lot of users that I should try after sometime. Of course by this time, I did not have data to work with on my network so I moved to another network incurring some additional cost in terms of their hardware.
Then 3 weeks back, everything went down to GSM from EDGE which means zero data for my wife, myself and anyone using MTN around the area.
I sent a message to @mtn180 on twitter trying to get assistance or someone that would start the process of getting the system in the area checked. No luck no one answered my message.
All this got me thinking, is it that the networks don’t go around to check the state of their equipment? I know there is the routine check of power generator and fueling but I wonder greatly about checking that the equipment is giving the quality service it should give. And assuming they don’t, when a customer is showing some concern about the quality of service, should it not be taken seriously?
The subscription on my BB is now only useful when I link the device to a wi-fi network or move out far enough from my area before I can use a service I have paid for.
Knowing that my BBQ with expire by the end of this month and not sure that the issues will be resolved, I officially tender my quit notice to MTN with respect to data service. It has been nice doing business with you but I guess this has to end as you can’t keep your side of the agreement but my cash will now go to someone else.
@jaidox

Once in four years –Again

August 12, 2012 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life • Tags: life, olympics, sports •

Earlier on this year, I wrote about the small issue of leap years and how often they happen and the many things that people can do when these years come around.

Another once in four years event has just been concluded today that is the Olympics.
This leap year’s version was held at London and it has been a very interesting 3 weeks of watching athletes perform wonders and excel at the various sports they are participating in.

These athletes showed such determination, passion and devotion to excel during their events. As a result, a number of olympic and world records were broken. In the 100 meters men, women marathon and 800 meters men just to mention a few.

While we all associate with the winners, a thought is spared for the losers as you cannot have winners without losers. Some of the losers we dejected while others rejoiced in the privilege participating.

A lot of countries it seems sent out their teams to make up the numbers while others wanted to win and make a point an example of this is the host country Great Britain which finished with the country’s highest medals count on the table.

Some traditional high level performing teams disappointed but some new teams and champions were revealed.

These last 3 weeks have been memorable and exciting with people from all over the world cheering on their teams and other teams participating in events of interest.

One thing I am glad for is that there was no injury which would not heal and there was no accident or incident relating to any athlete while performing. This has allowed us all to enjoy a wonderful and memorable olympics.

This version is over if you are not counting the paralympics. The next version is in Rio in Brazil and that is the next year for next leap year…I can only wonder how the world will be by that time.

Too Soon…

June 3, 2012 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life • Tags: aeroplane, death, issues, life •

Today is one of those days that you have a fairly good idea of what you need to do and have the plan all laid out only to get a phone call about some urgent concerns of a family member.

You recompose, offer your assistance and get back to the script and all seems to go according to plan you complete an audit of your work processes and you even get some good news and you are quite happy then you get a breaking news…there has been a plane crash and over 140 people are dead.

I had such a day today and was suprised that there was a plane crash considering that we had not had such a news in over 5 years and the confidence in the airline mode of transportation rising daily with more people choosing it over road travel.

There are a number of concerns that comes to my mind about this incident
1) In terms of keeping to time and flying on schedule, this airline in my opinion is number 1. It is a faily new airline but they hit the ground running and tried to build a reputation as the airline of choice. I know a lot of people who began to use them routinely just because they made sure their word was their bond.

2) After the incident, a lot of people began to come forward with tales of recent experience that saw delay in their flight program from the same airline and how this was due to issues with the plane. If this was true, could it be the sign of cracks in the armor? Was the success achieved in a short time beginning to cause changes in the commencement principles? Had the experience of the previous years been forgotten in a short time?

3) Now that this has happened, Will questions be asked of the authorities about an investigation into what happened and how long that will take and if help will be sought from people who have a sophisticated system of investigating air crashes? Will questions be asked of the checks and approval processes that allows a plane to take off from an airport? does such a thing exist? was it done for this particular flight? These are some questions an investigation should bring out answers for.

4) How will this affect the brand of the airline? will people still buy tickets like they did prior to this incident?

I really hope and pray that the other airlines learn from this incident and re-check their system over and over again to ensure that they don’t get the unwanted label of an airline that killed people.
It is easier to do something right than to explain why you did it wrong. I pray that this will be the last air disaster in this country in many many years to come. Amen.

By the way I became an uncle again today. 😉