tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63036132024-03-13T05:49:00.797+01:00Digital Peppersoup:: Culture :: Technology :: Art :: Life :: Work :: Play ::Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-33557187770486660432014-06-04T07:18:00.001+01:002014-06-04T07:21:37.802+01:00Motivational Speakers: The Success MarketplaceFor good or ill, Nigerians are having a go. First Nigeria got wealthy. Then came the motivational speakers to sell Nigerians on their full potential. (FROM SLATE) “Several years ago I was a two-time college dropout,” says Steve Harris, one of Lagos’ most high-profile motivational speakers. “When life places a sticker and brands you as an incompetent or a ne’er-do-well, you need to get off your Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-67345911300781746832013-06-05T08:39:00.001+01:002013-06-05T08:39:13.923+01:007-inch Surface Device Coming From Microsoft Digital Peppersoup can confirm that Microsoft has a 7-inch Surface tablet in the works. The device will run windows RT and will be announced next month. Sources close to the matter confirm that this form factor is critical to the success the current strategy at MS. Developing… Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-10088143695896639322013-04-06T14:08:00.001+01:002013-04-06T14:08:54.891+01:00An Xbox, an Axe and a Man Named FrancisWith the first official announcement of the next-generation Xbox fast approaching, rumours persist that Microsoft's plans for the console will require it to always have an internet connection. This possibility hasn't resonated well with users, with many arguing that if they're simply engaged in a one-player game or watching locally-stored media, it makes absolutely no sense to be forced to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-17051837432471301172013-03-03T08:30:00.001+01:002013-03-03T08:32:17.148+01:00Surface Pro–It’s an ultra-book… really.The reviews have ranged from the fawning to the the outright hostile. Well, mostly hostile: this computer inspires a lot of negative passion (par for the course for most things from Microsoft). But here’s the funny thing. I discovered that when you actually use one, something unusual happens: the simple utility of the computer supersedes all previous criticism. Simply put, this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-33003455636932881132013-03-01T00:29:00.001+01:002013-03-01T00:29:55.617+01:00Dynamics CRM Online users get more options. Microsoft made available on February 27 an optional product update for its Dynamics CRM Online service which adds iPad and Yammer support. This single product update -- which cannot be uninstalled once an admin or user installs it -- provides both the iPad and Yammer functionality. Microsoft officials said in January that iPad and Yammer support would be rolled out for Dynamics CRM Online Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-12361591735490956292011-06-10T10:16:00.001+01:002011-06-10T10:16:58.101+01:00Tame Time Wasters Part Ione of the more delightful little tools on the internet (for film buffs) is to be found here on Slate. It goes by the unlikely name of the Slate Career O meter and it makes statistically meaningful plots of… oh just see for yourself (here’s the link again) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-60313561947884049392009-06-03T18:19:00.001+01:002009-06-03T18:19:51.684+01:00It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet (MSFT)So much truth and still so much room for debate here… It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet (MSFT) So much truth and still so much room for debate here… I quote: “So it is time for Microsoft to recognize that no company can do everything and that competing with everyone from IBM-and-Oracle to Sony-and-Nintendo to Apple-and-RIM to Google-and-Yahoo is just a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-89832516042449241332009-06-01T10:15:00.001+01:002009-06-01T10:15:05.834+01:00Microsoft Launches Bing… no one really notices.Microsoft launched it’s new search engine (decision engine as it hyperbolically dubs it) for the rest of the world today as part of it’s bid to unseat Google as the king of search. Actually, it’s far likelier that Microsoft just wants a larger share of the search market and to put a dent in Google’s ad revenue juggernaut. Visit www.bing.com to learn more. My first impression is that it is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-48413001296457489282008-12-04T14:56:00.001+01:002008-12-04T14:56:52.454+01:00Nigeria 'child witch killer' heldDP is thrilled that at someone is about to face justice.   Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child "witches". "Bishop" Sunday Ulup-Aya told a documentary film team he "delivered" children from demonic possession. But after his arrest, he reportedly told the police he had only killed the "witches" Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-45123650351031331742008-11-25T09:53:00.002+01:002008-11-26T12:53:09.739+01:00If, like us at DP, you're looking forward to the Windows 7 with an anything-is-better-than-vista attitude (although we must admit we do like a number of Vista's features), then check out what Ina Fried of Beyond Binary has to say. The list is short:1. Standard approach to mobile broadbandWindows 7 treats cellular modems as a standard connection, much like a Wi-Fi network, popping them up in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-90925140446810121102008-11-18T23:51:00.001+01:002008-11-18T23:51:01.963+01:00BBC NEWS | Health | Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient'Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient' in what is potentially, the most significant piece of medical news in the last two decades... The BBC reports that German doctors have fought the disease to a standstill. About one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have a resistance to HIV Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-52399171716759686622008-11-18T20:41:00.001+01:002008-11-18T20:41:17.456+01:00Nigeria the safest place to invest? (Dealscape): Remember Iceland in 2006 (NumericPoet)Technorati Tags: Investing,money,credit,interest rates,finance There's an intriguing chart from the study that bloggers have seized on that ranks countries by risk based on a number of factors including current account financing gap, FX reserves/short-term external debt ratio, exports to-GDP ratio, private credit-to-GDP ratio, private credit growth, loans-to deposits ratio and banks Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-65383665863140472132008-11-16T20:19:00.000+01:002008-11-16T20:28:33.010+01:00The End By Michael Lewis (Author of Liar's Poker and The New New Thing) The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong. Absolutely brilliant Photo-Illustration by Ji Lee To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-34766489727469725792008-11-14T10:41:00.011+01:002008-11-14T15:59:54.997+01:00Admiral Arogundade Was Magnanimous & Beating Victim Is A Beast - NIJI FADIPEMr. Niji Fadipe, an Abuja based comentatator argues here that the victim shown in the widely circulated video is a "rude", "thuggish", "stubborn", "senseless", "beast" who should be grateful to her attackers for not murdering her and not "remorseful" after she was beaten. He further argues, eloquently, and without Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-17618098971929184482008-11-13T08:39:00.003+01:002008-11-13T08:49:40.998+01:00 I can't say it better than the author of the piece did. Here it is reproduced in it's entirety:In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine - and branded witches by powerful pastors. These children are then abandoned, tortured, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-74608488552657046492008-11-07T10:03:00.005+01:002008-11-07T10:09:44.764+01:00If, as you do on your average rainy Tuesday, you gather a clutch of Nigerian technology-industry Chief Executives into a room and ply them with enough coffee, cookies and attention, the conversation will invariably turn to our government’s IT policy or the government’s lack of one.Some of the CEO’s will moan a little about the “absence of a detailed and rigorous policy framework for IT Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-1155822488222040282006-08-17T14:46:00.000+01:002006-08-17T14:48:08.236+01:00EarthedThe sun-glazed baobabs; splashed with goldAre too formal and too poised for this wild ground.Their shapes; sculpted cries – held in time forever –Lend the wind a mournful sound.A grief impossibly familiar and impossibly old;The death of Adam remembered and foretold.Humble and uncomprehending,Embrace a cause or take a standAnd add your footnote toWhat you cannot fully understand.Not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303613.post-1073606217767020402004-01-09T01:08:00.000+01:002004-01-09T01:40:00.346+01:00If you have ever lived in Lagos. You will know...
Fifteen million people on a postage-stamp sized piece of swampland.
No wonder we are all going mad. "Believing God" for sanity. For prosperity.
We are dying of AIDS, of bribery and corruption, of stupidity and ignorance.
Dying to be rich, to be free. To become Americans and go to heaven.
Who will kiss our faith away and make our national Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0