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I just realized something; computers take up a lot of my time. A couple of friends showed up around noon and I just got back from seeing them off. What happened in the intervening 11 or so odd hours? I have no idea. We just talked about games, played around with Ubuntu a little ( they’re just coming out of the noob stage) and made idiotic jokes. That’s it. For twelve hours.

It made me realize that as much as I love computers, my time is not being used well. I could probably acheive more in less time.Things are not really balanced at the moment so I’m going to have to throttle things a bit (Digg & Cracked especially). Anyway, I’m going to bed. Will post some more when my brain stops making these grinding and rattling sounds.

It’s hard being the “IT” guy or the “computer” guy in Ghana.  Why? Where do I start?

• First of all, people expect you to drop whatever it is you are doing and solve their problem for them (never mind that it’s really important to you). They need their computer/ software working now.
• We really really don’t like the users that ask us to help solve a problem then start making idiotic suggestions (more…)

This post was originally meant to be a review of the HP Pavilion dv6915nr, which I had gotten about two weeks ago to use at school. Unfortunately, that is not meant to be. A couple of days after I got to school, a very enterprising burglar broke into the house where my friends and I were staying were staying and made away with my laptop & phone, my roomates phone and another housemate’s PS2. (more…)