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c't features heisse-news

2012-01-15T10:13:02+00:00

Several years ago, I created a computer news parody page called “heisse news”, emulating the look-and-feel of the German “heise news”, an online newsticker run by the most important German computer magazin publisher. Although my page did not see an updated since almost four years, it's featured in the latest issue of the publisher’s main print magzine, c't, in the section “Websites aktuell” on page 168, which I find very cool. As it is only fair to give and take, I posted a new entry on heisse news, featuring their website in the same manneras they featured mine...

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Good To Be Back!

2012-01-14T12:48:44+00:00

Nairobi, Kenya is one of my favourite cities in Africa. Her cozy climate reminds me of a town I grew up in Ghana. It feels so good to be back in Nairobi. Now I feel enabled. With that said, let me go and get some stuff done.

Happy New Year

2012-01-05T16:01:25+00:00

Using this blog to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Twenty twelve, let’s see what you have to unveil.

My mantra this year is to write more. So be it!

First (academic) publication

2011-12-24T10:47:23+00:00

Nice christmas present: I just got message that the paper “Loop subgroups of F_r and the image of their stabilizer subgroups in GL_r(ℤ)” that I extracted from my Diploma thesis in Mathematics, and which I submitted to the Israel Journal of Mathematics in November 2010 was finally published today, in “Online First“ form and under the doi 10.1007/s11856-011-0213-3.

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Guest lecture on Haskell performance

2011-12-06T21:16:28+00:00

Today, I had some business in Bonn, so Janis Voigtländer invited me to hold a guest lecture in his advanced functional programming course, maybe telling the students more about “real world” use of Haskell, given that he teaches mostly the theoretical foundations. I chose to discuss an experience I made while implementing SAT-Britney, namely that for the sake of good runtime and memory performance, it may be neither ideal to evaluate a list fully lazily, nor fully strict, but to have something in between. For the talk, I demonstrated this by a small example, showed how to use the GHCi debugger to get some insight in the evaluation order of things, how to benchmark the program and read the ghc statistics and a profiling chart, and finally how to get the most out of GHC’s List Fusion. I wanted to also touch on QuickCheck, but skipped it to finish in time. The full text of my talk (including graphs) is available, but in German; if you want an English version convince your prof to invite me for a guest lecture as well.

Afterwards I sat down with one of the students of the course, Helmut Grohne, who happened to take part in the Debian bug squashing party last weekend and had filed a release critical bug against the Haskell grammar generator frown (no better link available, homepage seems to be down) to debug the problem. It quickly became clear that the bug was introduced by me (can you spot it?) when trying to make it compile with a modern GHC – slightly embarrassing for me.

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Some late recognition of metainit

2011-12-03T21:19:11+00:00

Four years ago, during DebConf 7 in Edinburgh, I had the idea of creating init scripts not by hand, but rather describe them in a declarative way that handles most common cases and generate the real init scripts from them. Back than, this was partly motivated by the varying quality of init scripts and the advent of an alternative init system, upstart, for which proper service files could be generated as well.

I implemented the idea and uploaded it as metainit to Debian, but it did not take off. Only one package uses it, and this package is not used much either. The project basically fell dormant.

Yesterday, I got this mail:

Hi Joachim,

I'm not very familiar with Debian ecosystem, however our company has recently switched to exclusively using Debian based servers, please forgive me if there exists a better channel for sending patches.

We need (in house) to create a lot of trivial services and the sysv init system seems an ideal way to manage them, and metainit an great way to keep the config simple.

However all our scripts require a heartbeat, the way we normally do this is with a bunch of checkers launched from cron. Metainit was ideal, but lacked the simple 'status' task found in most init scripts.

This small patch adds that task, I hope you and others find it usefull.

Regards,

together with the mentioned patch. So it turned out that the idea was a useful one after all, although it found its use on our user’s machines, and not within the Debian packages, as I originally anticipated. Nice!

During the recent discussions about the latest init system, systemd, there were more thoughts about generating init scripts/upstart service descriptions/systemd units from a declarative description, and if metainit had taken off back then, things would be easier now. So if anyone feels like reviving the project: Please do.

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Poetry in the problem class

2011-12-01T17:11:30+00:00

I’m currently running the problem class for the graph theory course at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, held by Prof. Maria Axenovich. On one problem sheet, I felt like setting the question in verse, and indeed, two students submitted their solution is in verse form as well. I have assembled the problem and both solution – enjoy!

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Iotop Crashes When Not Run As Root

2011-10-30T18:01:28+00:00

Welcome to another an-update-broke-me-box post. Iotop now requires root access:

:~$ iotop -o Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/iotop/netlink.py", line 229, in recv raise err OSError: Netlink error: Operation not permitted (1)

To fix it, run iotop as root:

sudo iotop -o

There’s a lively debate here between the iotop author, Guillaume Chazarain, and Linus Torvalds on the pros and cons of requiring root access for throughput statistics. It’s another linux developer classic with Linus using words like abortion, castration, disaster, utter crap… makes for a few laughs if you can spare a couple of minutes.

How To Download Flash Videos On Ubuntu 11.04

2011-10-18T12:11:27+00:00

It seems Adobe is on a mission to make downloading Flash videos as difficult as possible for those of us used to grabbing them from /tmp. A few weeks ago, I noticed Flash videos were no longer being saved in the /tmp directory. Instead, they were being placed in the browser’s cache folder… minor inconvenience, life goes on. After a recent update however, the files are no longer being saved in the cache folder. A quick

lsof | grep -i flash

gave me:

plugin-co 26044 o 17u REG 8,1 2020248 393786 /tmp/FlashXXxaK1Jq (deleted)

You guessed it… there is no file called FlashXXxaK1Jq in the /tmp directory. I see what you did there Adobe, nice one. I’ll spare you most of the technical details but the output indicates that the file is somewhere in the /proc directory. Using the process id 26044 (the second field in the output of the lsof command), we can hunt down the file FlashXXxaK1Jq in the /proc directory. So:

cd /proc/26044/fd ; ls -l | grep FlashXXxaK1Jq

will give you something like:

lrwx------ 1 o o 64 2011-10-18 10:30 17 -> /tmp/FlashXXxaK1Jq (deleted)

So the flash video is named 17 and being symlinked in a sneaky manner to /tmp/FlashXXxaK1Jq (deleted). Now do something like:

cp 17 ~/Videos/funny-youtube-video.flv

and you’re done. Go back to your Videos folder and watch that cat playing the piano to your heart’s content.

And now, I must cover my tuchis so here goes… downloading copyrighted material may be illegal where you live.

How To Ping NETBIOS Names On Ubuntu

2011-05-15T00:40:08+00:00

I make heavy use of the ping utility on a daily basis and it absolutely galls me that Ubuntu cannot ping hostnames by default. I need to use the nmblookup utility to find the ip address of the machine I want to ping and then ping that ip address… primitive, silly, unnecessarily complex… I feel a rant about idiotic default settings and legal gymnastics surrounding the universe repository coming up so I’ll just get on with the post.

1) Back up and edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file by copying and pasting the following commands:

sudo cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.original

gksu gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf

2) Add wins to the hosts directive:

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4

3) Install WINBIND:

sudo apt-get install winbind

4) Ping away.

How To Restore GRUB On Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-14T23:37:10+00:00

Since version 9.10, Ubuntu uses the GRUB2 boot loader and manager on clean installs. This means my earlier post on how to restore GRUB will not work properly. To restore the boot loader on these versions of Ubuntu (and possibly any debian-based linux distribution that uses GRUB2), you need an Ubuntu 11.04 live disk. The 10.10 live disks will work too… any ubuntu live disk that uses GRUB2 will work. Fire up a terminal once the live disk finishes loading and enter the following commands:

I) Let’s find where Ubuntu is installed on your hard disk:

sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2612 60279 463218210 83 Linux /dev/sda3 60280 60801 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris

My ubuntu partition is /dev/sda1 (it has the asterisk under Boot).

II) Armed with this information, mount the Ubuntu partition:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

III) Install the GRUB2 boot loader:

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

That’s /dev/sda — the hard disk itself, not the ubuntu partition – /dev/sda1.

IV) Unmount the Ubuntu partition and restart the computer like so:

sudo umount /dev/sda1 ; sudo reboot

V) If you have more than one OS installed, re-detect OSes like so:

sudo update-grub

That’s it.

Manage Multiple Computers With Synergy

2011-01-11T17:02:54+00:00

It’s lightweight, cross-platform and allows me to share one keyboard and mouse among several networked computers…

and it’s called Synergy. Visit the download page and grab the appropriate installers. Click here for instructions on how to configure your dekstops. Ubuntu users can avoid a text configuration file by installing a GUI configuration app like so:

sudo apt-get install quicksynergy

Have fun.

I love my country

2010-06-29T14:21:17+00:00

It had to take the on going world cup to really bring the fact home to me …but i really love my country, mother land and land of my birth , the black star of Africa…GHANA…GHANA (GH) totally rocks…Go Black Stars and make the whole Africa proud

Google Maps Team Launched Driving Directions For Africa – Awesome

2010-04-24T17:16:30+00:00

The Google maps team finally launched driving directions for Africa. This is something I have been waiting for, for sometime now. Finally its here. :-)

http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-maps-for-africa-gets-better.html

I like this part of the post about the launch.

So the next time you are in Ghana driving from Kotoka International Airport to Hotel Novotel in Victoria Borg, Accra or you just want to drive from Nairobi to Kampala, visit Google Maps and allow us to help you get to your destination.

Now no more clumsy directions, like we usually do here in Ghana, which goes like, Yeah, go left( its not far ), turn right, you will see a plantain seller at the corner, then go further down the street, there is a house painted black, by pass it and go further until you see a “shoe shine” sitting on the other side of the street. Ask around if anyone knows Mr. Pee Jay. He is popular. Once someone says yeah, I know Mr. Pee Jay, that means you are at the right neighbourhood. Then start looking for a house painted red with yellow gate and green walls. Oh gosh, this kind of directions gives me a migraine. By the time the direction is done, you’ve even forgotten where to start from.

To satisfy my curiosity. I tested the map direction. Work so well. I can see the direction form Kotoka Airport to Dansoman where I live. Super cool.

Kudos to Google Maps team for bringing this to us. It will save some of us tons of time.

Away From Home

2010-03-16T01:12:59+00:00

Kumasi road

I got really tired of Accra because of the scorching sun and the unbearable humidity. So I decided to geek out at a different location and headed straight to Sunyani, Brong Ahafo. Also I have had this pending motorcycle trip to Sunyani for a while, so I decided to do it this time.

Me on the motorcycle

On Wednesday morning, I packed up my backpack, took my camera and G1 Android powered( courtesy Google Ghana ) phone and rode all the way from Accra to Sunyani. It was my longest motorcycle trip. The distance about is about 383.01 km (238.0 mi). Made few stops on the way for photos. I saw lots of accidents on the road, even saw a fresh accident, involving two vehicles, veered off the road into the bush. This got me a bit scared but I was so determined to get to my destination safely.

Linda Dor

My first stop was at the famous Linda Dor restaurant on the Accra – Kumasi road. There, I rested for about 15 minutes, stretched , peed, jumped back onto the bike and headed straight to Nkwakwa. On the Nkwakwa road, I saw this huge mountain with masts on it. Caught my eyes so I decided to document it.

Nkwakwa

From Nkwakwa rode about half an hour to a fuel filling station to top up the tank. From there, I rode straight up to kumasi where I rode through Kejetia finding my way to the Sunyani road. I rested in Kumasi for about an hour, drinking and socializing with the local people I met at the bar. I also charged up my dead phones to get them back to function.

Kumasi

After resting in Kumasi, the second trip started. I rode into the night to Sunyani. I made it to Sunyani about 2 hours. On the road, I got high way night riding experience. Riding in the night wasn’t fun at all if you ask me. Vision wasn’t so clear ,so riding became extremely dangerous. There were lots of insects on the road. They got tricked by the headlights, thinking they have got a place to linker on but rather got busted on the helmet and the riding jacket. If you are very sensitive to slight pains, then night riding isn’t for you. You might scream and if you don’t take care, you might lose your balance.

I documented my trip on Google maps using My tracks to record the journey.

The trip was a good one. Worth the effort and the money spent on the journey. Sunyani’s weather was much bearable. It was a bit colder compared to Accra’s and I managed to touch base with a long time friend. She was really happy to see me after 3 years not seeing each other. The only issue I have in Sunyani was the poor connectivity but hey, better than nothing. I managed to get down at work. I’m going to do this again but a different location.

Is been a long time

2009-11-16T10:58:11+00:00

Is been like ages since i blogged. Is been crazy for me since i got back to Ghana, land of my birth. but i am finally in control and want to start blogging seriously. expect more now.

Currently moved this BLOG to http://www.egoleo.net

The Go Programming Language

2009-11-12T07:24:32+00:00

Go The programming language

It seems Google is doing everything under this sun. From search engine, mobile OS, browser, and other several products, now its the Go programming language. I can’t wait to see them reveal a teleport system, that way I don’t have to ride about 218km to get to the Western region.

Go is a system programming language like C and C++ but with new features and eliminations of the short comings of C and C++. Go is designed to be extremely fast and avoids some of the complexities in writing software( like C is :-) ). Its an open source project aiming to have a community to contribute to make it even more powerful.

It is optimized for massive scaling and for multi-core processors that handle many tasks in parallel. It has a strong focus on object oriented principles. The project looks bright. However, Francis McCabe who has been working on a programming language also called Go is seriously begging Google to change the name of their programming language Go. I wonder how such a big company couldn’t do their homework well.

The Global Village

2009-10-06T14:19:42+00:00

If the world is now a global village, then I guess Aunt Araba can go and spy on what Mrs Obama is cooking for supper nd we the village elders sit and drink some pito with Osama and Gordon Brown while the German chancellor plays ampe with Sirleaf Johnson.Now where r the power chaskele boys , Mugabe and Wen Jiabao??

ah these boy paa !!

(Memoirs of a global village elder)

Karmic Kaola Goodness !!

2009-10-06T06:50:08+00:00

Wow!!

Just spent over three hours downloading the Karmic Kaola beta over a crappy wireless connection.

And I just got to shout “Wow!!”. Beta saf be this. Man, they really put some good work into this stuff.Little touches here and there . And I think my screen display just increased or something cuz there seems to be more space on the desktop. No kidding !! It is really worth the long wait , short fevered naps and the ever present angelically annoying mosquitoes buzzing and taking painful dives at my body…Karmic Kaola rocks , though there’s still more work to be done..And this time I hope to be part of it contributing my quota to it!!

From Gnome to KDE and back again

2009-09-19T22:05:36+00:00

First cut is the deepest as they say and its really

I tried KDE 4.3 over the week and I must admit they got some bling,bling. Wow!! Great work, guys and ladies.. The panel looked more spacious and the various effects and widgets/ plasmoids were just amazing !! And the preview effects in Dolphin were just over the top. (Top that if u can, Windows 7)

But then ,bam, without any warning stuff just started to mess up .First it was my Intel graphics cards not agreeing with compiz.(though KDE still looked good and handled ok without the bling,bling) Then KPackage Kit just made me boil with its interface. I mean, if I want to go through the list of available and installed software I d**n well want to see it all without typing keywords to get a list. sheesh!! Of course it just made me love Synaptic all the more)

Finally I just gave up and guiltily run back to Gnome. So simple!

Of course I’m waiting with huge anticipation for the final version of Karmic Kaola. Even the Alpha releases do show some serious improvements that make me swell extra extra with pride at being a linux user. Go Karmic Kaola team!! All the best !!

After Karmic , I’m definitely gonna become a full time evangelist for Linux Usage in Ghana….

Back Again !!

2009-07-01T17:47:39+00:00

Hello World

Its sure been a while since i last posted on this blog.

However i’m back and this time i hope to put up new stuff everyday about what i’m currently doing .Hoping to start releasing some serious apps for the linux world soon.

Adios amigos

What else I’ve been watching

2009-03-05T23:00:23+00:00

I started this post when I was talking about The Wire, I figured I’d put out a list of what else has been keeping my attention TV wise these days. Its late, but I already wrote most of it so I figured why not. I’m not really a huge TV person, never have been. I tend to time-shift my shows and then watch them when I’m not doing anything else, which usually ends up being late at night.

Battlestar Galactica: This has been one of my favourite television shows of the last few years and is now heading towards an ending. If you haven’t seen any of it, you should have. Its really, really good. Basically its a rimagining of on old science fiction show in which the human race is wiped out my a race of machines we’ve created and the survivors are forced to run for their lives while being hunted by the same machines. Along the way thugh it becomes a great meditation on the nature of humanity, morality, religion etc. Its science fiction at its upper end. I recommend highly.
Big Bang Theory: This I was determined not to like. Its a sitcom about a pair of socially awkward physicists and their friends. I pretty much expected that the writers would settle for the dumbest possible nerd stereotypes, add no real depth and screw the story up. Instead, they kept the stereotypes but managed to add enough depth and authenticity to make them real people. Interestingly enough, there are quire a few scientists I know who are followers of the show because of how well its written and the inside jokes it throws our way. Also recommended
The Unit: Dennis Haysbert shooting people and looking cool in the process. Need I say more? Its a bit on heavy handed in its stance at times,but its great pulp action and good acting. All things I’m partial to.

Other stuff I’m watching but not so keen on writing a short paragraph about, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and the new season of Hajime No Ippo (yes, I like anime. It doesn’t say geek up there because I couldn’t come up with another name)

I was also watching Dr. Who and Torchwood until both seasons ended. I’m really, really waiting for them to start back up again, even though they shall no longer be servicing my Freema Agyeman crush. Again, if you are a science fiction fan and not watching these, your loss. Majorly.

In which the absentee host returns. Again

2009-03-04T23:43:46+00:00

A very belated happy new year to you people. Apologies for the long absences. Again. At this point I’m pretty sure I’m down to just the people who forgot to remove me from their feed readers.

Quick Updates on what I’ve been up to:

I was officially awarded my Masters by Research in Physics. My parents and big sister were in town for my graduation and that will easily pass for my best day this year. Since then I’ve gotten accepted into a physics PhD program with the same advisor at the same university. 3 more years of this and I get to walk across a stage again in a gown with a hood on it and put ‘Doctor’ on my business cards.

On the Physical side. I persist with my judo and have now logged hundreds of hours of being thrown around, pinned, choked and armlocked. On good days I get to do the same to other people. In a little under 2 weeks I get to compete in the BUCS(British Universities and Colleges Sport) kyu grade competition. Hopefully all that work will end up in me getting a few good throws. Either way there will be pictures and maybe even video. At some point before I get the PhD I want to get my first dan(black belt)

Otherwise, I live in London, I study, I train, I hang out with friends, I still read too much, I watch the odd movie and life continues.

There’s a bit of a backlog of topics I was planning to write about but never got around to. Some will make it out in the coming weeks, some won’t. Either way, keep me in your readers people. If nothing else I need the touch typing practice

HE WON!!!!!

2008-11-05T12:19:56+00:00

Yes, I stayed up all night to watch the results come in. I’m still not entirely sure it happened though.

We are officially living in interesting times people. Lets see how it goes

Hat tip

2008-11-03T10:55:29+00:00

H & H

Great race. And hopefully a good omen.

Recent additions to the bookshelf

2008-10-15T21:46:53+00:00

One of the advantages of this past year has been a commute from the south of London to the center of the city daily that meant I had between 1 1/2 and 2 hours sitting or standing while waiting to get where I was going. Sometimes that went to reading academic papers for my masters, but a lot of the time it went to recreational reading. Add that to the fact that I got a library card as soon as I could(making this the sixth city on the third continent where I have paid library fines) and I was able to get through quite a few books. Well, considering that I was in school at the time.

The highlight list includes:

Charles Stross: The Laundry novels and The Halting State

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

Nicholas Hornsby’s High Fidelity

Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn Trilogy

Terry Pratchett’s Making Money and Going Postal

Steven Barnes’ Great Sky Woman

Mark Law’s The Pyjama Game: A journey Into Judo

That’s not a fully complete list, but those are most of the books I remember. Well, there’s also a bunch of classic science fiction books, but I’ll talk about those later

How do I disable the ping response?

2008-09-08T15:37:00+00:00

Usually a ping is used to check if a machine is up and to check the network status.

It is a small network packet sent to the machine. If the machine is up, an answer will be sent. The time needed to get the answer is called ping time or round-trip time.

The ping response from an IP indicates the machine is up.

Unfortunately this can be used to quickly scan an IP-range for reachable hosts.

This can be used to find potential hackable machines. If your machine doesn’t answer to pings, your chance to be seen is reduced. (That doesn’t mean your machine is more secure, the machine is just not that easy to be seen from the internet. Nothing more.)

Add the following line to your init script for the network (the name depends on the distribution you use):

echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

This disables ping responses.

To reenable, use the following command:

echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

To make this permanent set the following into /etc/sysctl.conf (if you have such a file)

net.ipv4.conf.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1

Custom teaser length by View using node.tpl.php

2008-09-08T05:23:04+00:00

I have been working on this project, www.newsafrican.com which is a news site which focuses on everything african news. This project is been built on the Drupal CMS which is very flexible arguably.

I got into a situation where i have to customise the teaser length by View which happens to be one of the Drupal modules using node.tpl.php.

One way to vary teaser lengths is to check the current View with a modified node.tpl.php modify the output based on this

In this example a teaser of length 75 or 150 will be shown for the Views “frontpage” and “ghana_page” respectively.

I worked on this for Drupal 5 with the help of the good guys in the drupal IRC rooms, my solution is below. But this is a solution for Drupal 6 by friends on the drupal-support channel of IRC.

<div class="node<?php print ($sticky) ? " sticky" : ""; ?>"> <?php if ($page == 0): ?> <?php else: ?> <?php print $picture ?> <em class="info"><?php print $submitted ?></em> <?php endif; ?>

<?php
global $current_view;
if($teaser) {
if($current_view->name == ‘frontpage’)
{?>
<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_news_image as $item) { ?>
<div class=”field-item”><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”<?php print $title ?>“><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value'];
}

if($current_view->name == ‘ghana_page’)
{?>
<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_news_image as $item) { ?>
<div class=”field-item”><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”<?php print $title ?>“><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value'];
}

if($current_view->name == ‘africa_page’)
{?>
<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_news_image as $item) { ?>
<div class=”field-item”><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”<?php print $title ?>“><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value'];
}
if($current_view->name == ‘business_page’)
{?>
<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_news_image as $item) { ?>
<div class=”field-item”><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”<?php print $title ?>“><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value'];
}

if($current_view->name == ‘gh1′ || $current_view->name == ‘gh2′)
{?>
<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_news_image as $item) { ?>
<div class=”field-item”><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”<?php print $title ?>“><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php print substr($node->content['body']['#value'], 0, 90). ‘ ’;
?><a href=”<?php print $node_url ?>” title=”read more”>read more</a><?php
}
} else {
print $content;
}
?>

S Leone president declares assets

2008-09-02T05:11:28+00:00

President Ernest Bai Koroma has become the first head of state in Sierra Leone to declare his assets to the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission.

As i read this news item, i was wondering when all other African leaders will do follow this. Expecially in Ghana were there is been much talk about such a thing. We always here leaders saying i already had my money or wealth before i came to power.

Koroma, i hope this will not be a nine day wonder, but to go beyond that let things work in S-Leone.

Google launches internet browser

2008-09-02T05:00:29+00:00

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

“We realised… we needed to completely rethink the browser,” said Google’s Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

Just waiting to try it out.

Sign this

2006-12-22T09:04:21+00:00

I finally did the right thing by going here and signing Bruce Perens’ petition against the Novell-Microsoft deal which everybody is talking about. If you value the freedom to write and share software, please read up carefully on the implications of this deal and, if you feel that Novell’s deal with Microsoft is a threat to those freedoms, do sign the petition as well.

Seasonal greetings

2006-12-22T07:32:13+00:00

Today is the last work day before the holidays so Happy Yule everybody.

Vad i helvete..?

2006-12-21T07:57:35+00:00

Idiot!

Hur kan någon vara så genomkorkad? Jag är givetvis 100% emot dödstraff, men om det skulle bli infört hoppas jag att “författare” som David Anderson blir de första in i gaskammaren. Men lyckligtvis kommer inte dödstraffet tillbaka så jag rekommenderar instället tjära och fjädrar.

Så vilka brott skulle dödstraff utdömas för? “De allra grövsta brotten”. Terrorism är ett exemples som ges. Okej, det kan jag gå med på att det är ett grovt brott. Och i så fall borde vi omedelbart hänga två superterrorister, nämligen Busken och hans pudel, Tony B. Liar.

För övrigt anser Anderson att landsförräderi och högförädderi är grova brott för vilket dödstraff borde utdömas. Eh, ursäkta mig? Landsförräderi???? Det är ju så idiotiskt att jag saknar ord. När blev det ett grovt brott? Nu när jag kommer att tänka på det, när blev det ett brott över huvudtaget?

Förbannade idiot!

Hilarious

2006-12-18T08:39:01+00:00

Yeah, yeah, so God hates Sweden, so what? Sweden hates God as well.

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2006-12-14T08:17:35+00:00

Eftersom ni i Sverige har överskott på regn, kan ni inte skicka lite till oss? I Ghana är det hett och torrt. Lite regn skulle verkligen hjälpa.

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