Monday, February 18, 2008

Financial Standard Website hacked.



When I click on my news folder bookmarks this morning, where all major newspapers pages are bookmarked, I was surprised to see that Financial Standard Websites had been hacked. See the screenshot of the pages. This also is the first time of my seeing a hacked website. You always hear about these stuff, a website has been hacked and its landing page has been changed by the hacker. The screenshot clearly shows how it looks like when a website is hacked. What exactly is the benefit this hackers derived from hacking a website? Does that mean they have taken over the administrator of the website? I cant stop pondering over this

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Revisiting the Past - Those Love Letters

My dearest, sweetest, fondest, fantastic, extra-ordinary, paragon of
beauty,

I hope this letter meets you in a fabulous state of metabolism, if so doxology. My principal aim of writing this letter to you is to gravitate your mind towards a matter of global and universal importance, which has been troubling my soul. The matter is so important. Even as I am writing, my adrenaline is 100 per cent on the Richter scale, my temperature is rising, the wind vane of my mind is pointing North, South and East at the same time; the mirror in my eyes has only your divine image. Indeed when I sleep, you are the one in my medulla oblongata, and I dream about you. I went out to sea in my dream, and I saw you: surrounded by H2o and you in your majesty rose from the abdomen of the sea like Yemoja, the avatar of beauty. Oh, Lord be with us! We are thy servants.

As you can see, I am in a serious dilemma. And I want you to take my matter seriously. At this junction, what our Lord said on this matter is germane. He says we should ask, and we shall be given, we should seek and we will find, and that we should knock, and it will be opened unto us. I am this 30th day of the eighth month in the year of our Lord, Two thousand and Four, asking, seeking and knocking at your door. My prayer is that thou should open so that thy servant can enter. I want to wake up in the morning and see only your face.
I want you to be the only sugar in my tea, the only fly in my ointment, the butter on my bread, the grey matter of my system, the oxygen in my head, the planet of my universe, the wall clock of my room. The conveyor belt of my soul. I pray that you realise the gargantuan nature of my predicament. If you refuse, my life will be like tea without sugar, like a snail without shell, a Xmas goat without a horn; in fact I'd become an orphan. In fact I’d kill myself. What is life if I can't wake up in the morning and behold your face? You model of pulchritude, patiently created by God on a Friday morning before he went on a deserved holiday. Please, let me be your Romeo. Make me the Adam to your Eve. Shakespeare said it all: if music be the food of love, then let it play on. I want to emphasise, universally and responsibly, that you are love itself. You are the metaphor, oxymoron, thesis, antithesis, irony, gerund, conjunction and the adverb of love. At this juncture, let me also say that geography of your body is a permanent allelluyah. Not from your body, ammonia, urea and iodine- you are too beautiful for that, what I see in your body is milk and honey. At this juncture, brevity is the soul of wit. A stitch in time saves nine. Procrastination is the thief of time. An opportunity once lost can never be regained. Make hay while the sun shines. All that glitters is not gold. The journey of a thousand years begins with a step. What God has put together let no man put asunder. To be a man is not an easy task even if God's time is the best. But time waits for no one. A man without love is like a fish out of water. I know you are a sagacious girl. If you like the veracity of what I am saying, please reply and let me have it pronto. The mark at the bottom of this page is a kiss from me to you. I remain Your beloved, faithful, loyal, One and only admirer.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

The Scandal of CAF Footballer of the year Award

With recent allegations from Didier Drogba and recently confirmed by Fredric Kanoute, that a CAF officials did call them and warn them that if they did not appear at the ceremony, the award will not be given to them. The obvious is now known that, the award is not sometimes based on the performance of the players being given the award. The case of J J Okocha comes in minds in 2003 and 2004 respectively when the award goes to Samuel Eto'o. The truth is, the BBC footballer of the year award is more fair than the CAF award itself. Where BBC footballer of the year award were being chosen by the BBC listeners, the CAF award were being chosen by the Coach of the 53 affiliates FAs of the CAF. It goes on to show that, the CAF footballer of the year award is being imposed on us by just only 53 'supposed' football experts in Africa.
That reminds me, one would have thought that when Glo take over the sponsorship of the award, it will be more transpatent, but reverse is the case. By the way, what happens to the results of the CAF player of the year which the Glo network ask us to vote for? Does it mean, the 53 Coaches' chosen CAF player award supercedes that of the ones the Sponsorship company ask us to vote for?
Ever pause to ponder that, in future, the voting patterns should be modified as the award continues to generates controversy every year? Ever also pause to ponder what will happen to the credibility of the award if Kanoute decides to return the award because it is evident as if he did not merits the award since if he himself did not attend, it means the award will not be given to him?

NB: FEEDBACK
The CAF has come out later after the above was posted to confirmed on Thursday Didier Drogba's claim that he was stripped of the African Footballer of the Year award because he didn't show up to collect his title.

CAF had initially denied Drogba's revelation that a member of their organisation had phoned him to say if he didn't travel to Togo capital Lome his trophy would go to Fredi Kanoute.

So I pause to ponder again, what will happen if the three nominees refuse to attend the ceremony? Truth is, this arrangement will always belittle the award, and make the awardee feel as if he doesnt deserve the award. Think again CAF. So with the above CAF confirmation, who indeed is the CAF Footballer of the year awardee for 2007? Drogba or Kanoute? A quick answer, Drogba is the selected and merited Footballer of the year Award, while Kanoute is the decorated Footballer of the year award.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Bloggers on the Super Eagles performance at Ghana 2008

Nigerian bloggers comments on the not so super eagles of Nigeria performance at Ghana 2008 is definitely not a no-comment approach. A note of disappointment is clearly seen from the write-ups. As far as I am concerned, the Super Eagles did not deserve to win Nigeria v. Ghana match, it will strongly be a total disappointment for our team to win against the host nation with our performance, as it will take a shine off the competition if the host were to be eliminated in the quarter finals especially with the eagles shoddy performance. Bloggers and Nigerians have come out to call for the sack of the coach berti vogts who cannot take the advantage of a sending off of a black stars player. The match ended Nigeria 1 Ghana 2
The "Super Fowls" as some Nigerians now call our Eagles or 'super chickens" as the Ghanaians fans now call them, while some one call in to condemn the 'slow motion' football our eagles play during the soccer fiesta.
The truth is, the blame on our shoddy performance is not on the coach alone, but should be on the administrators of our football, the players and of course the fans. I think a state of emergency should be declare on our football, disband the current team and let the current Golden eaglets metamorphose into the national team.
As the soccer fiesta continues, my solace lies on the performance of the Ivory Coast team who are delight to watch, my 100% is with them, especially when they did not allow us to be disgrace out of the group stage by beating the Mali team for us. Go for the gold, the Great Elephants!!! and Come back home disgraced super chicken.