Of late, I have observed a huge increase in the number of visits from US residents to this blog. Last year, when I had just started this blog, UK residents were having an upper hand, particularly because a good number of my Malawian friends have moved to the UK (I guess it is is easier [...]

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If you are planning to buy a personal computer, a Dell computer would be one of top notch brands that you may wish to consider. When I was working on my Masters degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, my supervisor gave me a GX280 Desktop PC. Windows XP Professional was already installed on this machine. [...]

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Today, bloggers around the web are uniting to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. And as expected, I would like to join fellow bloggers from the rest of the world on this important issue. Last week, as I was searching for information on Darfur in preparation for the Stop the [...]

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Last Friday was Eid ul-Fitr holiday in Malawi. This a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. Wikipedia records that Eid is an Arabic term meaning “festivity” or “celebration” while Fiṭr means “to break the fast” and can also mean “nature” from the word “fitrat” and therefore symbolizes the breaking [...]

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Last week or so, Seattle based Mpire launched a widget ad network called WidgetBucks. With this widget, bloggers can customize the type of consumer items that they want to appear in the widget.The other option is that Mpire can serve up contextually relevant ads based on the topics they write about just like Adsense.

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As part of the ongoing Ethanol Propelled Vehicle Project, the Malawi government launched the first flex-fuel vehicle on Thursday, 4 September, 2007. This vehicle has been imported by the Ethanol Company Limited (Ethco) from Brazil. Flex-fuel cars can can use pure ethanol, pure petrol or any combination of the two fuels in a single tank.They [...]

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This belated post serves as my contribution towards the BlogCatalog‘s blog against abuse challenge. I was supposed to publish it on 27 September as required but preparations for the IEEE Africon conference took up much of time before that day. This post is dedicated to the war torn Darfur, a region in Western Sudan, bordering [...]

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While I was in Windhoek,Namibia, Paypal announced that users in 26 countries can now withdraw their funds to their credit, debit or prepaid cards – so long the cards are branded Mastercard or Visa. The list of the happy countries is as follows: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Indonesia, India, Israel, Italy, [...]

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I am back from Windhoek, Namibia where I presented a paper and co-chaired one of the technical sessions. I arrived in Windhoek at about 10:00hrs on 27 September, 2007 after a few hassles with traveling arrangements and connections.I managed to co-chair a session in the afternoon of the same day.

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