Yesterday, as I was preparing for a Communication Networks lesson for a City and Guilds Diploma class, I found a bloggable issue (the bloggability of an issue matters in the blogosphere) in the area of Internet Security. I am sure all of us have been affected by computer viruses in one way or another. A [...]

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Recently, I have observed that the President of the Republic of Malawi, Dr Bingu wa Mutharika is visiting different institutions (hospitals, secondary schools etc) in the country. A few days ago, he visited Luchenza and Thyolo Secondary Schools. As minister of education, this is good for him as it gives him a chance to take [...]

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A few days ago, Rocky’s blog was shunned by a potential advertiser simply because his high traffic blog experiences a high bounce rate. I never thought that a high bounce rate can affect one’s bargaining power when it comes to adverts. I have always thought that as long as one’s blog gets a lot of [...]

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ICT development is Sub Saharan African countries continues to be hampered by poor planning. Up to now, some countries do not have National ICT policies and little is being done to address this problem. The political authorities, who generally are not ICT savvy, are responsible for all this mess. A very sad development in Namibia [...]

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I have been a member of Entrecard for the past two days. So far so good, I am really enjoying the experience. Entrecard is country miles better than BlogRush. If you are on BlogRush, you will not make a mistake if you come along with me to Entrecard. The amount of traffic that I have [...]

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The Department of Electrical Engineering at the Malawi Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, in conjunction with the Radio Communication Unit of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy has organized a short course on Wireless Networking for Developing Countries. This is part of the Wireless Networking for Health Applications [...]

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The Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa, with the support from the Dar-es-Salaam Institute of Technology, has organized a EuroAfrica-ICT awareness workshop which will be held in at Peacock Hotel, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on April 16 & 17, 2008.

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As pledged in this post, I will now review some of the most exciting primary school teachers that made a huge impact on my academic life. The list is as follows:

My granny, Nyangwira: She used to teach Standard One and Standard 7 (Needle Work) classes. She used to take me along to her Standard One [...]

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