Today I finally bit the bullet and moved my blog to a new hosting service. Looks like everything works fine now. Since I did not change the domain name, moving the blog was just a question of installing the new blog, dropping all the tables, restoring the database to the new server, uploading some extra [...]

In late June, an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 variety of the avian (bird) flu was reported in Southern Togo, near the border to Benin:
Togo’s Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Minister, Yves Madow Nagou, confirmed here late Friday, the outbreak of bird flu in a poultry farm at Sigbehoue, south-east of the country. “Preliminary findings from [...]

There is so much interesting and important stuff going on:

A new film documents the ongoing genocide perpetrated on the Acholi people in Uganda (HT to Vicky), perpetuated by, among other things, US military aid (war-on-terror-dollars)
The US Congress is debating about subsidies for a road fuel that releases twice as much pollution as gasoline: liquefied coal
The [...]

Today began the Year of the Pig in the Chinese lunar calendar. Apparently this is considered a very auspicious sign in the Cinese zodiak, and so many Chinese are planing to have a baby this year.
Gung Hay Fat Choy!

The recent Sony rootkit scandal takes all that’s wrong with our “brave, new world” of networked computing: spam, viruses, spyware, malware, sloppyware (=Windows) and adds a major technology and entertainment corporation’s bad attitude about consumer’s rights.
Earlier this year, Sony sold music CDs with copyright protection software that installs a rootkit on Windows machines, making [...]

Here we go: I finished the new dress for this blog. It’s just the Wordpress default theme with new graphics. I am not much of a graphic artist, but it’s good enough for now.
The hardest thing about amateur graphic design is to resist the PowerPoint effect. That’s what happens when the VP of Marketing has [...]

Updated to WordPress 1.5 today - very nice! The current look is just the default, but I like it. I am still looking around for a more exotic theme. Stay tuned …
Also, I registered a new domain, yikpa.info. This website will be dedicated to this small village in Togo, and I am hoping to involve [...]

The comment spam was getting out of control, so I turned off comments on older posts. I’ll just keep the newer posts open for comments for now, until I implement a better solution.
[UPDATE: the solution should be somewhere here ...]

This is good news for Togo! Faure Gnassingbe finally relented and stepped down, yesterday. Now the speaker of the parliament, Abass Bonfoh, has replaced “Baby Eyadema.” This puts Togo back into compliance with the original, pre-coup constitution.
The good news is that now the sanctions against Togo have been lifted and there should be elections [...]

… yeah - like the word wide web needs more words! Well, here it goes ….