Makiwa

I haven’t posted in a while. It’s been a crazy time. Bombs going off. People being shot dead on the tube. A really horrible time.
And just when I didn’t need a crap time at work - I’ve had to work on a VB 6 application that was written by a novice programmer. The last couple […]

I’ve heard from two different people during the course of the day, that police have shot dead a suicide bomber in London’s docklands. However, there has been no mention of it on the BBC.
Report/rumour 1:
07/07/2005 13:17 “apparently news 24 has said that a suicide bomber has been shot in Docklands”
Report/rumour 2:
07/07/2005 13:50:40 […]

It has been a horrific morning. I have been on the verge of tears for the last few hours.
I slept in a bit this morning because a drank a bit too much wine last night. When I finally got up there was no Northern line tube between Morden and Stockwell, so I decided to work […]

I’ve been having a play with the Google Earth, which is just WAY TOO COOL!! Download it now! (Windows only at this point)
Obviously, I’ve been perusing the country of my birth: Zimbabwe. It is interesting to note that the political boundaries of the country are quite evident just from the satellite images.
Geographical map of Zimbabwe […]

The BBC has run an article saying that Methodist bishops from southern Africa have warned that a potential genocide could take place in Zimbabwe.
I would like to say that the Zimbabwean people are not capable of genocide. I would like to say that only Mugabe and his cronies are evil, and that the rest of […]

I’m really impressed at what the guys at Microsoft are doing with RSS in the next version of Windows (code-named “Longhorn”).
There’s a great video at Channel 9 where the “Longhorn Browsing and RSS team” take you through the new platform-level suppport for RSS. You also get a peak at IE 7 running on Longhorn.
If […]

So today the BBC reports that the Head of the World Food Programme says Zimbabwe is one of the countries he is most worried about in the world.
In another report today, more people have died in the government’s contraversial urban slum demolition scheme.
Indeed, Zimbabweans don’t only face a bleak future - they are facing a […]