Living in the Far East offers me the advantage of entering the New Year several hours before the rest of the world does so. We are now just four hours away from 2009 here in Tokyo. This is surely going to be my last post in 2008 and coincidentally my 200th post on this blog.
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Now that we know that Liz McCartney is the 2008 CNN Hero of  the Year, it’s time to start reflecting on the selection process. One issue that easily comes to my mind is the unfairness of the web based popular vote method used in declaring the winner. I am not saying this because my compatriot, [...]

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For sometime, I have been looking for an online service that allows users to send free SMS messages to Malawi. A few days ago, I stumbled on Wadja, a social networking website, like Orkut, Facebook and Myspace, which goes one step beyond the rest by providing FREE SMS across the world.

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A recent edition of the Balancing Act, a free weekly e-letter on the Internet in Africa,  carries a story about a Ugandan ICT Engineer, Wilson Kutegeka, who has has won the  Microsoft Global ICT Award.It has been reported that Kutegeka beat off a challenge from over 2,000 professionals at the Microsoft Most Valuable Profesional (MVP)summit [...]

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If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you will notice that it was offline from December 6 up to December 8. During this period, I had been having a terrible Wordpress database problem at Unique-links.The Wordpress software was failing to access the database. Up to now, I do not know the cause of [...]

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Some few weeks, I issued an open call to all my visitors asking you to pledge a few minutes of your time for Marie da Silva who was one of the ten nominees for the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. The winner has now been announced. She is Liz McCartney courtesy of her dedication [...]

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Today is World AIDS Day and I would like to bring your attention to an HIV news item that has sent shock waves over the Internet. I am sure you have read the article that says AIDS could end in a decade. I got so excited when I saw the title AIDS could end in [...]

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