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BoLarge55,

I am going to go ahead and say what others may want to say (or that u already know), but dont want to say out of fear:

First and foremost, sorry about your situation. Assuming what you are saying is true, u shd hv known better. Having said that, you owned up to it and begged for forgiveness.

However, if you have begged her all this while and she still insists on seeing a lawyer, then trust me, she already had plans of leaving you long time ago. That situation was just used as the excuse to accelerate the process.

As for her being pretty and other guys "eyeing" her, who cares? U no dey eye woman urself? Forget dat one. As one man, whom I consider wise once told me, if u die today, 4 things will happen: (1) She will mourn you (2) She will bury you (3) She will inherit your property (4) depending on when you die, she will start looking for love elsewhere, especially in these days, probably within less than a year of your death. Cold hard truth that most pple wont say, but I will

To wrap up, there are too many fish in the ocean. I know, you are probably thinking more about paying her child support and alimony (letz be honest, thatz probably it, right?) than the actual divorce, cos if u were in naija, you wdnt hv cared less. Just make arrangements with her on how you will pay so she doesnt take you to actual court where payments will then be taken out of your paycheck automatically.

Sorry for your situation man. I don't envy you. If she insists, my advice is to let her go and find happiness elsewhere. Just make sure you are there for your child, cos once d pikin enter bad peer group, e don finish b dat.

Just my 2 cents

This shd make 4 a very good show on MTV - Road Trip Africa

Make sure u take many pictures so you can share with us. To those who say it is dangerous, sure it is, but if oyibo didn't take the exact same risks, they wdnt hv colonized Africa.

Haba blk man, una too dey fear Worse case, it will just be Steve Irwin (RIP) part 2

i have been using IE 7 for sometime now and i also have firefox,i don't realy think IE is such a bad idea,there aren lots of new feattures on the IE 7 ,FIREFOX is good also,they are good depending on what site u are onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

That is y the developers amongst us should push that IE (FF has done this to a better and greater extent) adopt web standards. That way, no matter what browser u r on, the site you visit looks and behaves in the same way. It was a result of IE's (dare I say?) arrogance that developers dumped them and worked on FF. Now, FF is growing, granted not at IE's pace. If only MSFT would de-couple IE from its Windows OS, we would see which browser pple actually choose

So, does the Church you attend or the one you want to establish not have the appropriate inviting sign on the front lawn? Look no further than the church sign generator Come up with your own "words of wisdom" for free

http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

My sign is attached for starters LOL.

Now that I have done my good deed for the day, it is time to roam other sections of the forum

Note to self:

Never jump on the bandwagon and get latest technology that hasn't been fully tested for stability and/or is in beta status. Only deal with tried and tested, full functional technology

Just in case, I hope we all realize that microsoft doesn't have a quality assurance department and that we the users are working for them for free, in this regard. Doubt me? Then the next time any windows application crashes, see if that "send, dont send report" popup doesn't show up.

It is the one of the biggest scams, in my opinion, in the history of corporate america and they say we naijans are masters of 419?

Here's to open source!!

Folks,

Get on the Mozilla Firefox (FF) bandwagon today!! The trend is growing. User base has increased to 15%. Though not much, it is significant, considering that last yr, it was I think around 7%. For one, it takes care of your popup issues, and is more compliant, with respect to web standards. Even the new IE7 will not be as good as FF

So what r u waiting for? Go get firefox today (Seun has already provided the link)!!

As someone who seldom listens to hiphop these days (y? cos to me, as Nas's album' title says, "Hip Hop is dead" - its all the same stuff), the lyrics wasnt the point of my post (sorry for not making it clearer).

Letz face it folks, hip hop couples rarely (emphasis on "rarely", so pls, dont get it twisted ) last and sorry to sound -ve, but I don't c this one lasting long either.

Time will tell I guess.

I told you all it wdnt last. Here's potential proof:

http://mediatakeout.com/Exclusives/Ring_Alarm.html

Read it and "weep"

I personally have a problem with calling myself a designer. I am a web developer - I take whatever design the graphics person gives me and transforms it into what a user sees and interacts with on the screen, for hopefully an optimal experience. I have noticed that on this forum, the term "web designer" is often used in place of "web developer", but I beg to differ.

Having said that, my advice is to stay on top of things by learning the latest technologies (AJAX, AFLAX, Web 2.0, etc) and methodologies (usability, agile technologies, Extreme Programming, etc). In order to achieve this, one must be willing to do, but not limit one's self to, the following: subscribe to a variety of articles, attend a variety of seminars, subscribe to a variety of web forums and incorporate (but not abuse) as much new technology as possible into future projects.

At the end of the day, what will separate the web "wheat" from the web "chaff" is one's ability to continuously learn and apply that knowledge successfully to future projects.

In addition to what Bossman just said abv (Kudos to u, bossman, for a well-written response ), I would say you shouldnt rule out an advertisement blitz. Though there are a lot of pple in the web dev biz, most are either solo or smale-scale. In my opinion, one thing that will make you stand out (and i am sure you will agree with me seeing that you have been around in the states long enough to know thatz how they do it ) is making your potential clients think you are bigger than you really are. So consider placing ads in papers, tv and/or radio. It just might be worth it.

Finally, when you do get up and running, consider tapping the talent pool that is wasting in our various comp. sc. depts at your local university. Make them work as interns for small pay. I am sure they will more than oblige. This is one area in which, in my opinion, we are lacking. It would be a win-win situation: you get the cheap labor, they gain the experience.

I hope this helps.

Well I am proud because I wrote the code myself. You would NEVER find this type of MVC solution anywhere on earth. If you do they probably copied it from my project, ok.

Just to set the record str8, I never doubted your coding prowess, only your definitions. I personally don't bash people on stuff I don't know myself.

As for "what parses", again, I think you are confusing issues here. I could equally ask what parses JAVA, but that isn't the point. The point is, what defines software? any "ML" language, is just for markup. In particular, you have to realize that there are 2 kinds of programs - web apps and regular apps. The former needs the "components" to function properly, not the latter. Thus, your argument that it does need it in totality fails.

As for "not contributing again", I hope you're keeping count. You have scored 4 own goals by now

Oga Seun, I no dey fight o! I just refuse to accept something that I know is wrong. In the end, who knows, I sef may be wrong at the end of the day. So far though, I am not wrong, again, based on definitions. I have no ego at all. I just won't stand for what is wrong

I said I will not write or contribute to this thread again, but I just want to make a comment

latest count: my2cents 2 sbucareer 0 - checkmate!!

CSS, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, SQL etc. are all components of software. Software development need these components to function effectively.

Wrong again pal. Don't take offense o! I am only trying to help spread knowledge and hopefully gain some in the process. HTML, DHTML, XML are markup languages, not software. SQL is a query language. You can write, say, JAVA code, and it is totally independent of the above. So no (mba, beeko, iyo ), software development doesnt need these "components" to function effectively. Doubt me? Oya, show me anything matching the above in this very rudimentary JAVA code (this still doesnt make me a software engineer by the way )

public static void main (String args[]) {
sbucareer sbu = new sbucareer();
if(sbu.isWrong()) {
System.out.println("Sorry pal, but I think you are wrong";
}
}

As we used to say in secondary school in naija, QED

oookay, I actually laminated your response so I could read it while bathing with my joy soap (Heeeey, joy girl!! )

I can see that you people are intemidated by my knowledge

Speaking for myself - hardly

If my code is urgly and poorly written, I suggest you supply your cleverly written MVC to use as a comdenation of mine?

I wouldn't know, so I guess you got me there - I am a user interface developer (not designer, pls don't get it twisted and confused ). My job is to interact, via jsp tags, with the backend logic written by a software engineer. So whether it is ugly or not, I cannot say. That also implies I cannot supply you with my "cleverly written MVC". sorry.

I will repeat it again in case you do not know, the purpose of MVC is to separate software concern. We have a concern now, which is people copying or downloading .CSS and Javascript.

We do indeed have a concern. But that concern has to do with defining software. CSS/JS are not software, so there is no need hiding them. In my opinion (just one man's opinion, and I could be wrong) adding extra load on your server by hiding your JS and CSS files, when I could probably pull up via google a solution better than yours, is unnecessary.

I will not futher contribute to this thread.

Hmmm, so again, being u r in the UK, what does your above thread count as? I bet it isn't a "contribution"

LMAO, sorry guys but after seeing sbucareer's code, I unsubscribed from the post. Now, based on part of his comments, I just had to return. This is becoming funnier by the minute

sbu, in an obvious attempt to pull "effex", said:

These approache could be used for the CSS and Javascript to adopt the middleware deployment which will undoubtedly prevent people from downloading your business logic.

Dude (or should I say "bloke", considering you are in the UK ), even without all your code, business logic, by default is not viewable from a browser via "view source". Neither is it downloadable.

LMAO. Make I go naked baff for bafroom biko. This is too much

Check this link out for your answer. It is a well-known phenomenon:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-21451.0.html

This post is leaving me with a very weird feeling about you, Seye, very weird feeling

sbucareer, u c am?

I knew that is where u were headed. I don't think I doubted what you were saying. I just didn't want to make assumptions. You were on a quest to prove to the world that indeed there was a way and that those who didn't know were imbeciles, ingrates and infidels LOL. For the record, I never did say you couldn't save .css and .js files.

For your convenience, I will reprint excerpts of my original post:

There are 2 types of internet users - those who know and those who don't. As a stop-gap measure for those who don't know, you could use javascript to pop up a scary message like "copyright - stealing source code is illegal and prosecutable" (upon right-click). That usually scares the novices away. Putting your javascript and css code in .js and .css files respectively also helps protect proprietary interactive code.

As far as those who know, sorry pal, but there is nothing you can do. FireFox has made it worse by enable users to be able to view and even edit your source on the fly. As has been said up top, you could dabble with putting code you don't want others to see in a password-protected folder on your server, but why would you want to do that?

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In particular, pay attention to "There are 2 types of internet users - those who know and those who don't" and the latter part of that paragraph, again, in reference to *those who don't know* - "Putting your javascript and css code in .js and .css files respectively also helps protect proprietary interactive code."

I will say, in keeping with my stance of coming on this forum to learn something new, that I wasn't aware of "injecting objects". Again, in keeping with my stance, though I probably will not be able to prove for myself that it is impossible to steal code your way, I will say I have learnt something new and take your word for it.

I knew someone would say something to the effect that you just said, that is why, as always, I took the pains to emphasize (perhaps not enough, but then again, I speak american, not english ) b/w the 2 camps. As for clearing the air, yes, u did and I am now breathing happily. I just cancelled the appointment I made earlier today to go see a psychotherapist LOL

thebadguy, false adertising

I was expecting the video showing the actual stinging, not the video announcing his death and how he died. As at the last time I followed the story, the friend was contemplating having it aired on TV, so for CNN to have it would to me would mean they had some serious connections.

Next time, choose a better wording format. Now I, and perhaps others, have clicked on that link, which will result in higher ad revenue to CNN, for no reason

Stories of stupid thieves and armed robbers abound in the states. From the one who left his dog (which also had a chain around its neck with a "if found, please return to" note on it) at the crime scene; to the one who went into a store with a bag (which had no holes for his eyes LOL - you should have seen how he was walking around struggling to get a sense of direction LMAO ) over his head. I thought such was limited to the states where thanks to some pointless 24-hr TV/radio programs, most americans brains have been dumbed down to the point where they can't even think and end up blaming society for all their problems and expect govt to come up with a solution. Such pple will quickly tell u all 100 songs produced by p. diddy, but couldn't for the life of them recognize bush or cheney in a photo. Don't even bother asking such pple to show you their state of origin on a map

Now, reading this article (too funny for me to reprint, just click the link, it is worth it ) about some armed robbers in naija, I am forced to rethink my ways LOL. Don't get me wrong, armed robbery/thievery is wrong and should be punishable by law. However, for a country known for 419, you would think we would be sharper.

Enjoy!! LOL http://odili.net/news/source/2006/sep/2/215.html

Well, I actually didn't think those words were directed at me. But even if they were, nko?

First off, I have a very high and weird tolerance for such remarks and besides, all I was expecting was for you to specify who you were talking to. In other words, let it not be like how we used to do it in secondary school where we would say something and then immediately say "I didn't mention anybody's name o!"

You know, considering I am in the states and don't speak english (yep, trust me, we speak american, not english ), I didn't understand what you were saying and as a matter of fact, don't quite think I actually completely understand u now (don't re-iterate yourself, you can YIM me if u must, he he).

Finally, again regardless of what you meant, I have found from personal experience that if you put your words a certain way, the person taking those words could choose to either go the extra 10 yards or be stubborn and not move an inch.

Thanks. Again, I no vex o! I was just wondering.

Nittinghill,

I don't know about the book landscape in the UK, but here is how I would go about it from the states (I too, have thought about this venture but had to withdraw cos of high shipping costs ) What I do now is get a list of books from actual pple I know will be buying such books, get them to drop a deposit with a friend in naija (that way, I don't bring them over, only to be told they don't want the book anymore), then bring the books during my next visit. Due to extra luggage charges, I limit my freight to a certain number of books, but I will say though, that at least for me, the extra money does come in handy Of course, I incorporate the cost of extra luggage into the cost of such books. Of course, yes I know, this is only on a small scale, but hey, it works for me! he he.

In the states, there are many bookshops that sell used books at 50% discount (minimum) as well as bookshops that are going out of business (thanks to the likes of borders and barnes and noble). For the former, you just check to see if what they have is what pple are looking for back home. For the latter, it make b tedious scouring the country for such stores (which don't tend to advertise in order to keep costs low, etc) but the effort is worth it. You could buy a book for the equivalent of N50 and sell it for 3 or 4 times that, depending on what kind of book it is. You could even sell the book at the cover price and offer a "discount". When pple want a book, trust me, within limits, they are willing to drop the dough for it.

Either way, just make sure that whatever books you want to sell, the demand for it is there. Finally, make sure that if and when you do set up shop, you do so big time and make sure you are always selling the most up-to-date books. Why? Cos from my experience, once Eze in aba gets a hold of it, he will re-print such books and sell them at a quarter of what you are selling for

Case in point: B4 my wife came to the states, there was a book I sent to her on marriage. Once she got it, she called me to let me know that she had the same book. I said it was impossible as that edidtion of the book had just come out. Once she did land in the states, I obtained the book from her only to find out that it was paper back, in black and white and "written and published" by a publishing press in aba No fear of repurcussion on the re-printed book whatsoever!!

Good luck!!

Hmmm sbucareer,

Regardless of who you directed your tirade at, I don't like your tone. The aim of pple on this forum (at least that is how I view it) is to learn. Spking the way u did can have the effect of chasing pple who would have otherwise learnt something. It takes a lot for some pple to post a question/response in terms of courage and fear of being viewed as "ignorant". Let's not make such pple (including myself) retreat back into their shell. At the end of the day, a post/reply should serve to educate and inform so that in the end, we all learn something

Regardless, I didn't quite understand what you were trying to say up top, again, regardless of who it was directed at. Do post an explanation as I would like to know what you meant and y u put it that way.

Thanks,

Sooo

There are 2 types of internet users - those who know and those who don't. As a stop-gap measure for those who don't know, you could use javascript to pop up a scary message like "copyright - stealing source code is illegal and prosecutable" (upon right-click). That usually scares the novices away. Putting your javascript and css code in .js and .css files respectively also helps protect proprietary interactive code.

As far as those who know, sorry pal, but there is nothing you can do. FireFox has made it worse by enable users to be able to view and even edit your source on the fly. As has been said up top, you could dabble with putting code you don't want others to see in a password-protected folder on your server, but why would you want to do that?

So to summarize, just stuff your javascript and css code in .js and .css files respectively, and hope for the best, as far as your html goes

I hope this helps.

O-B-J:
You can't just ask Seun to close a thread based on your own tastes. This forum is not (at least that is what I am lead to blv ) for any one person, tribe or entity. It is for all members alike.


ity:
then perhaps you should join the forum: http://www.akpfonline.org - the site is still under some "minor" construction, but you will see who to contact regarding your desires.

Note: I only created the website. I am in no way affiliated with the forum, nor by creating the site am I pledging my support to any one candidate

LOL imomoh,

I think ur joke just toppled mine

LOL

Whichever zone has the best candidate, regardless of tribe or party affiliation. Period!!

tinard,

I don't know anything about tesco, but if what I have heard is true, then it is the walmart of the UK. If true, it would be a good idea under the following conditions:

- u hv your light and water needs ironed out (that includes fuel for at least 3 stand-by generators)

- ur security is down pat (that includes cameras to monitor thieves, not only from outside but within as well.

- u r sure of a steady supply of goods

- u r willing to deal with the political (aka union) wrangling associated with those who have bad-belle for anyone "coming from abroad to take over from us"

You mentioned a "few millions". Is this pounds, euro or $$? I ask cos personally, if I were to do a thing like this, I am thinking $20million minimum. I say "minimum" cos I wouldn't want to be just another supermarket. I would want to go big time.

Finally, remember, all biz is subject to risk. If you fail though, don't take it personally but as an experience to learn from, as a road to future success. Just don't make too many of them

just make sure you do a solid feasibility studies man. A few millions, regardless of currency, is no joke.

I hope this helps.

what you have just witnessed is what is called "google bombing"

one of the ways Google ranks pages is by "link relevance" or "how many pages link to a particular other page?" The more links to that page, via Google's algorithm, the assumption is that the more popular that page is. So, again, referring to this case in question, a lot of pple (obviously bush-haters ) put the word "failure" on their site and linked it to George Bush, hence his name coming up on the search.

I hope this helps

Scenario one:
I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow
and asked loudly, "How much do you charge for a shampoo and a Mouth Action?"
I turned around and walked back out and never went back.
My husband didn't say a word, he knew better.

Scenario two:
I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls.
I was unhappy with the women's type I had been using.
After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen
who works at the store. He asked if he could help me.
Without thinking, I looked at him and said, "I think I like playing with men's balls."

Scenario three:
My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of candy and nuts.
As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help.
I replied, "No, I'm just looking at your nuts."
My sister started to laugh hysterically. The boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away.
To this day, my sister has never let me forget.

Scenario four:
While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok.
I was finally able to grab hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other patrons.
I told her that if she did not start behaving "right now" she would be punished.
To my horror, she looked me in the eye and said in a voice just as threatening,
"If you don't let me go right now, I will tell Grandma that I saw you kissing Daddy's pee-pee last night!"
The silence was deafening after this enlightening exchange. Even the tellers stopped what they were doing.
I mustered up the last of my dignity and walked out of the bank with my daughter in tow.
The last thing I heard when the door closed behind me, were screams of laughter.

Tyrone asked his work buddy, Robert, one morning, "Man, why you always so
damn happy when you come to work every day?" Robert replied, "That's
because I make love to my wife every morning before work."

Amazed, Tyrone asked him how he gets his wife to make love to him every
morning. "That's easy," Robert said. "I just tell her this little poem that
I made up. She loves it! It goes like this: Blond hair, blond hair, eyes so
blue. I love waking up and making love to you!" Tyrone said, "Man, you
white guys are so damn sentimental."

But he decided it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. So he spent the rest of
the day thinking of a poem for his wife.

The next day Tyrone showed up to work just beat to hell; bruise eyes, broken
nose, fat lip, the works!!! Robert asked, "Man, what happened to you?!"
Tyrone said, "I don't know, man. I went home and trie! d your advice. I just
told her a poem."

Well, what poem did you tell her?

Tyrone said: "Nappy head, nappy head, eyes like a frog. If I could roll your
fat ass over, I'd hump you like a dog!"

Mutiu,

I wd hv loved to check out the cyber crime site, but unfortunately I got the "Bandwidth Exceeded limit" error. Pls convey to Ayo (or whoever the site owner is). Such a site should never, never be down as I am sure it serves to promote Nigerians as pple known for other than 419.

Thanks,