The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Command-Line Interface Word Press Themes

There are three great WordPress themes that are command line based. One is Unix style, here are other command-line themes including one that is Commodore 64 based.

Building Dynamic Charts with PERL and GD

This is a great article by IBM on building dynamic custom charts using PERL and GD

Popcorn Best Practice

Popcorn Best Practice

Originally uploaded by andai.

You know you work in consulting when there’s a sign posted on the microwave in your office kitchen that explains the best practice concerning how best to pop microwave popcorn…

Configuring Ubuntu ‘Feisty Fawn’

If so inclined, here are some tips on configuring your new installation of Ubuntu 7.04 aka ‘Feisty Fawn’

BPO Outsourcing to Africa

This is an interesting article on some of the African countries vying for the business process outsourcing (BPO) business that the Asia and Europe has enjoyed these last few years…
According to the article, only a handful of African countries are in any sort of position to compete and gain this market. Maybe when the [...]

20 Must-Have Firefox Extensions According to CW

Last month, Computer World run an article on 20 Must-Have Firefox Extensions.. If you are like me, a rabid Firefox fan, you should check out the article and see if you agree with article’s choice of extensions. Beware that the website has these really annoying web ads that show up between hyper link clicks. It [...]

Google TiSP aka April Fool’s Day

I found this link to TiSP, Google’s ‘Free Broadband Service’ offering off the Google home page today. At first I was thinking cool! maybe I can sign-up for this and get rid of my Comcast broadband since they are rather expensive. I know that Google has been buying up loads of dark fiber and they [...]