In the recent past, three of my friends have had their Yahoo! mail accounts cracked into by the bad boys of the cyberspace. The first victim, sometime in November 2007, was Noel Jambo who works for Bunda College of Agriculture, a constituent college of the University of Malawi. The guys who cracked into his account [...]

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I have been extremely busy for the past week. I had my first presentation in my lab last Monday. Yesterday, I took a short Kanji test.Today I took a Japanese grammar test. My presence on the net was heavily limited. To make matters worse, I had to write some slides from the scratch because I [...]

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It has been reported by both Nyasa Times and Daily Times that University of Malawi (UNIMA) has embarked on a massive retrenchment drive among non-academic staff. This exercise is aimed at boosting the salaries of UNIMA’s academic staff. If this true, it is a very welcome development.Actually, it is long overdue. UNIMA should have [...]

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In the evening of Thursday, 1st May, 2008, I had a great outing in Shinsen. Mr. Shimpei Mori, Mr. Kiyoshi Chikaoka and Mr. Akitoshi Nomoto took me to one of the restaurants where we had dinner together. These guys are former Japanese volunteers in Malawi. We ate a lot of delicious stuff. We had a [...]

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