APPLE: 3G iPHONE

Apple's 3G iPhone finally was launched last Friday, the 11th, amidst much anxiety and, maybe, pomp, in 22 countries. Human queues, longer than anacondas, stretched from block to block, especially in Asia, eager to grab the new phone: an index of the 3G's wide acceptance.

3G technology gives iPhone fast access to the Internet and email over cellular networks around the world. iPhone 3G also makes it possible for you to surf the web, download email,watch video even while you’re on a call.

MIKE WENDLAND says on his blog:
My bottom line assessment is ... who needs a laptop? This iPhone 3G has let me do everything I need on the road.In fact, most of the notes for this post were composed on the iPhone and then e-mailed to one of my accounts, where I pasted them in a special application needed by the Freep.I could have done it, though, all on the iPhone, had I had time to set it up before leaving Saturday.

But he doesn't forget to mention BATTERY LIFE which doesn't seem to be long enough. That notwithstanding Apple seems to still be ahead of competitors. They hope to launch in about 70 countries.

CAINE PRIZE 2008

This year's Caine Prize has been won by Henrietta Rose-Innes from South Africa, with her story ‘Poison’ from Africa Pens, published by Spearhead, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007.

To read this year's shortlisted stories, please click on the following link:
http://www.newint.org/publications/fiction/jambula-tree/

EVER THOUGHT OF THE BAD SIDE OF HAVING TO DRINK WATER AFTER A GOOD MEAL?

I eat better these days - sometimes, the meal doesn't necessarily have to be better - most times, it's rice we eat, as students, here in Medilag - we've probably eaten more rice than any Japanese - more than three times sometimes. Food is good for the body. Of course, without food your mental and physical growths are hamper'd: everyone who isn't a rocketscientist knows that.

Yesterday, after having one of those pretty scarce good delicious meals. I decided to wash it down with a satchet of pure water. That decision was painful. WHY?

The water, in a silent evil manner, washed down every memory of that meal from my mouth. And that was real painful.

To make issues worse it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Minus that my day was FABULOUS!

HAVE A HAPPY LAST HALF OF THE YEAR.

ME TRYING TO SPURT OUT RHYMES.SPONTANEOUSLY!

Thanks Solomonsydelle:
all's well
that ends well
No reasonable bo
dy wants to go to hell
or end up in the bo
ttom of a well
so, plus the pains, we play it cool
we don't lool
we watch the Euro 2008
at 8
without hate
here in Idiaraba
Lagos state
Nigeria.

BLEND

Forget your rights
Forget putting up a fight
Forget the light
And sink into the night
-weeping will only endure the night-
Tomorrow will be alright
-'cos joy comes in the morning.

Light is an inconstant
element that constant
ly puts a red card
to all we plannd
to do at night-
then we start this old new talk about
Nigeria-everyone's jugular jutting out-
that sustains until everyone's fagged out.

We wake up in the morning
there is still no light- then
someone makes a comment
about Obasanjo's 10 million dollars
(abi na billion) into NEPA
only able change NEPA's name to PHCN!
the old new talk starts again a-new
just as of old we talk it for hours
laying its bricks till it's as high as the Two Towers.


We think of our Incourses
Go to read, for classes
Return to cook to eat 'cos there's now light
then there's no light
And the Indomie on the hotplate grows cold
We sigh, gasp, almost weep till we sleep.

I KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING . . .

. . . about the South African rampage and what it has to do with Nigerians and Nigeria. Now, don't you blame me about that. The reason is "many reasons" (do you get?). There ain't light in my Med School here in Lagos, Med School o!, Water disappears anytime from now or then, etc. . .

TO BE CONTINUED

I WANTED TO WRITE...

ABOUT THE BRAIN DRAIN.

But i changed my mind.
I've been down and out 'cos of chickenpox
for a while now:One of the contributing factors
to my not blogging.
Now, as a Med student living in Med school
with a Teaching Hospital right under my nose
It would be unwise for me to bath with spittle
when i live beside the sea.
But spittle is exactly what i used, bros.

The Doc. recommended just Calamine Lotion
for a pox that almost turned my face into a
Soldier's camouflage uniform. . .

Anyway, i gat something different on my mind
-I'm thinking furiously of learning some computer program
And i just discovered there are free ebooks online.
PERL is what i plan learning.
I'd brief you as i learn more.

PERL is the third most used program
in the world.
One of those prime tools for BIOINFORMATICS.

TECH UP!