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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

seasons greetings, goodbey 2008 and welcome 2009

Hi all, another xmas has come and gone and for your information, this is going to be last update for this. Talking
about update, i only update my blog once a month and it takes a great deal of effort on my part to do that. But each
time i go to my favourite blogs linda ikeji and ayeni the great and discover it's not been updated like say in the last
one week, i get kind of angry and wonder why they just cant update their blog very often. If they cant be updating why
start it in the first place. What do we call that? carrying a big log on one's eye and talking about another person
with only a speck in his eyes. Fendi 2009 is aound the corner and you better change your ways.
Talikg about 2008, how was 2008? At first i thought i didn't acheive much, considering the fact say i never hammer, but
come to think of it, i made slow steady progress and also did alot that'll eventually shape my 2009, the year of Fendi.
Hmm, haters be ware. So i say here a belated merry xmas to all and look forward to 2009 with great expectations.
Skipdoosh!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Cloud Computing + Bragelina Pitt + Must they

In my last post I a little on tech and I’ve decided to follow suite with another. This time around it is cloud computing
First it was web services but now it is cloud computing. I’ve been coming across the word cloud computing but it was only after the Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference that I came to understand what it is all about. I wonder what next. Below is what I was able to scoop on cloud computing.

Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centers as opposed to on the servers of a given business.
"It's a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy," said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft's chief software architect Microsoft first outlined a shift to "Live Services" at an event in San Francisco in 2005. The company has released a few things piecemeal, such as Live Mesh, but Monday's announcement marked the first real discussion of how Microsoft's disparate Internet strategies fit together.
With the launch of Azure, Microsoft will find itself in competition with other providers of Internet storage and computing services including Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Rackspace.
Ozzie said he was tipping his cap to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for innovating the hosted computing model. Amazon "established a base-level design pattern, architecture models, and business models that we'll all learn from," he said.
Microsoft is making Windows Azure in preview form to developers, with a limited subset of the features that it plans to have in the product before its final release.

Some pictures from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference.




There weren't many details on how Microsoft will charge for Azure, saying it will be free during the preview period.Final pricing, Ozzie said, "will be competitive with the marketplace."
The company itself plans to offer businesses the option of running over the Internet the kinds of software that have traditionally run on a company's own servers. Microsoft already sells its Exchange corporate e-mail software in this
way, but that is just the beginning, said Microsoft vice president Dave Thompson.
"All our enterprise software will be delivered as an online service as an option," Thompson said.

So thats that for Cloud Computing.

Brabgelina Pitt


I found this intresting stuff on Brad Pitt and Angelina's career comparison.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are about the most visible and most successful romantically-linked movie stars since Bogie and Bacall. And, yes, we know they are the doting parents of six children and tireless humanitarians. But when you get down to it, which of the two of them has the stronger film career? I crunched the numbers to find out.
Angelina Jolie

Career Stats:
Feature Films
30
Total Domestic Box Office Gross
$1.4 billion
Highest Grossing Film Worldwid
Kung Fu Panda
$629.1 mil
Most Recent Film
Wanted
$134.3 mil US
Awards
1 Oscar
2 Golden Globes


Angelina started early, first appearing at age 7 in "Lookin' to Get Out" with her father Jon Voight. Her professional career started small with supporting roles in films like "Hackers," "Foxfire" and "Playing God." She first broke out as a leading actress on TV, winning Golden Globes for her work in "George Wallace" and "Gia." Her first box office success was police thriller "The Bone Collector" with Denzel Washington, which earned $66.5 million in the US. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted." This was followed by the back-to-back hits "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." Some of her biggest box office takes have been with the animated movies "Shark Tale" ($160.8 mil) and "Kung Fu Panda" ($215.4 mil). Angelina's next film is "Changeling," the true story of a mother in the 1920s whose son was abducted, directed by Clint Eastwood.



Brad Pitt
Career Stats:
Feature Films
34
Total Domestic Box Office Gross
$1.7 billion
Highest Grossing Film Worldwid
Troy
$497.4 mil
Most Recent Film
Burn After Reading
$57.3 mil. US
Awards
1 Oscar nomination
1 Golden Globe
Brad Pitt spent the first few years of his professional career doing bit parts in low-budget films and TV shows. His breakout role was as an alluring drifter in "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In '94 he had hits with "Legends of the Fall" and "Interview With the Vampire." The next year he received critical acclaim for "Seven" and "12 Monkeys." Throughout the rest of the decade his films performed solidly but not spectacularly in the $30-60 million range. It was 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" that brought Brad his first $150 million-plus blockbuster, and the two subsequent sequels both broke $100 million domestically. His only attempt at an animated movie was the massive bomb "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." Brad will be seen this winter as a man who ages backwards in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," costarring Cate Blanchett.

The Verdict

Both stars' careers are evenly matched in terms of financial success and critical acclaim. In fact, the highest grossing live-action film for each of them is the one they made together: "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Both have generated Oscar buzz for their upcoming films. However, while Angelina has many projects in development, she is not currently at work on a film, nor is she committed to start on one in the near future. She in a recent interview she said, "The kids are my priority, so it's possible that from now on I will make fewer movies." Meanwhile, Brad has finished filming "The Tree of Life" with reclusive director Terrence Malick, and has just started work on Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards." He also has several projects as a producer, including the recently wrapped "The Time Traveler's Wife." So, with his future prospects more certain, I'm declaring:

Winner: BRAD PITT. These guys are my second favourite Hollywood couple after the Will and Jada.

Must they?

I dont understand why oyinbo artists love going naked. Is it that if they cant sing they try to make up with their body. I dont under why Kelis the wife of Nas has to do this.

Monday, October 27, 2008

VISTA SERVICE PACK 2, + BRAD AND ANGELINA + PIX FROM HOLLYWIERD

Vista SP2 beta due next week

For a change let me give you guys a bit of tech info. I know most of you have experienced windows vista, the latest windows operating system. There was a great buzz about it prior to its release but since after it’s release it has received a lot negative reviews from a lot of people, me included. But for the fact that Microsoft already has a pact with many of computer manufacturers, they ship their computer with all the flaws of vista. I love my XP SP2 and I’m not in a hurry to adopt vista. I’ll wait till all the errors of vista has been corrected before I migrate.
At a point Microsoft decided to hoodwink their users. They created a website that has nothing Microsoft on it and asked people to go to the site and evaluate a new product. People went to site after many had evaluated the product confessed they loved it. Unknowing to them the product they were evaluating was vista.
Microsoft is aware of the many flaws of vista and has been working very hard to remedy them. The latest in their effort is the release of vista SP2 the beta version. Read about it below.

The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing next week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other enhancements.
As is normal with me I’ll go ahead and give you a brief description of blu-ray disc.
Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage medium. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser (violet-colored) used to read and write this type of disc. Because of the beam's shorter wavelength (405 nanometres), substantially more data can be stored on a Blu-ray Disc than on the DVD format, which uses a red (650 nm) laser. A two-layer Blu-ray Disc can store 50 gigabytes, almost six times the capacity of a two-layer DVD, or ten times that of a single-layer DVD.
During the format war over high-definition optical discs, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. On February 19, 2008, Toshiba—the main company supporting HD DVD—announced that it would no longer develop, manufacture, and market HD DVD players and recorders,[2] leading almost all other HD DVD companies to follow suit, effectively ending the format war.
Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion pictures. As of October 21, 2008, more than 970 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in the United States and more than 540 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in Japan. There are expected to be over 1300 Blu-ray Disc titles released in the United States by the end of 2008.

I hope that wasn’t too much information. Anyway back to beta version of vista SP2.

In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft confirmed that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will be released next week.
"Because we've adopted a single serviceability model, these improvements are integrated into a single service pack covering both Windows Vista (client) and Windows Server 2008 (server) versions," Windows executive Mike Nash said in a blog. "This should also minimize deployment and testing complexity for our customers."
The software maker said earlier this week that it was working on Vista SP2, but wouldn't go into detail. A support document posted this month, however, suggested a beta version was in the offing.
In addition to Blu-ray, Vista SP2 will add support for Bluetooth 2.1 as well as include Windows Search 4.0, the latest version of Microsoft's desktop search technology.
Microsoft encouraged those thinking about upgrading to Vista not to wait for SP2, however.
"One question I know that you will ask is 'should I wait for SP2?'," Nash said. "The reality is that Windows Vista SP1 is a great platform that is both available on new Windows PCs and available as a free download for systems that are running the 'gold' release of Windows Vista. While we will recommend SP2 when it ships, your best bet today is Windows Vista SP1."
Update: Asked about when Microsoft might ship SP2, a representative responded that "it is too early to talk about SP2's final release date."
"As always, the final release date is based on quality and we will track customer and partner feedback from the beta program before setting a final date for distribution," the representative said.
The announcement comes ahead of next week's Professional Developer Conference, where Microsoft is expected to detail Windows 7, as well as give developers a pre-beta version.


BRAD AND ANGELINA MAY WED BECAUSE OF KIDS

With the hollywierd you always get weird stories. I saw a lot lately but has to do with two of my favorite actor, actress and couple Angelina and Brad, if put together equals Brangelina Pitt.

Actress Angelina Jolie has conceded she will marry partner Brad Pitt one day - to keep their children happy. The movie star has a brood of six with Pitt - adopted kids Maddox, seven, Pax, four, and Zahara, three, and biological children Shiloh, two, and newborn twins [not pictured] Knox and Vivienne. Jolie and Pitt, who was previously married to Jennifer Aniston, have always maintained they will not wed until same-sex marriages are legalized across the U.S.

So Brad and Angelina will make a stand for the right to gay marriage, but they have no problem respectively openly dating another woman while married and dating a married man?


PIX FROM HOLLYWIERD

Weird dressing from some of hollywierds

She is one of my favorite actress Katie Homes the prisoner of , sorry wife of Tom Cruise.
Ever since Katie Holmes agreed to join the "church" of Cruise, her sense of style has gone up in smoke.


Paris Hilton
She is a celebraty but what does she really do? She is always in the news but i still dont know what she does apart from the fact that she is from the famouse Hilton family. Anyway her cloth is banging but lips aint working for me.

Monday, September 29, 2008

barka da salah + campbel and more



This is wishing all my muslim brothers, sisters, friends, well wishers and every body a very happy Salah and praying that the lessons of this Ramadan season remains with us now and for ever.

Naomi Campbell's fortune to change

British supermodel Naomi Campbell is ready to change her religion. The Black Panther made up such a decision for the sake of her wound-be husband, one of the world’s wealthiest men, Russian oligarch Vladislav Doronin. It was Doronin’s tough condition to Naomi
.

The story of Naomi Campbell and Vladislav Doronin’s relationship reminds a nice fairytale. The model met the oligarch in May during the Film Festival in Cannes. Supermodels’ acquaintances said that it was love at first sight. The model’s closest friends were soon invited for a party on board Doronin’s luxury yacht in Saint Tropez.

BEER IS GOOD FOR YOUThe (Buffalo Theory)
The "Buffolo Theory" of Beer..
A herd of buffalo can move only as fast as the slowest buffalo. When the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.
This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.
In this way regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers, and that's why beer is so GOOD for you!

PUNISHMENT

A man was sent to Hell for his sins. As he was being taken to his place of eternal torment, he passed a room where a lawyer was having an intimate encounter with a beautiful young woman.
"What a ripoff," the man muttered. "I have to roast for all eternity, and that lawyer gets to spend it with a beautiful woman."
Jabbing the man with his pitchfork, the escorting demon snarled, "Who are you to question that woman's punishment?"

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Olympics and other stuffs




The Olympics has come and gone and usual our darling country performed poorly. We won three bronze and one silver making it a total of four medals, and we were ranked forty-four out of the eighty-one countries that participated. The list ranked was sixty-nine.
Some new records were set and some old ones broken. The overall organization of the event by China was superb and the next stage for Olympics is London come 2012. The Beijing Olympics was said to be the most expensive to host as it cost China over 40 billion to host and the rest of the other bla blab bla.

In last four Olympics, I’ve noticed a winning trend. Six countries always get to find themselves among the first eight and these countries are USA, China, Great Britain, Germany and Australia.
In Atlanta 96 USA came first then Russia, Germany, China, France, Italy, Australia and Cuba.
In Sydney 2000 it was USA, Russia, China, Australia, Germany, France, Italy and Netherlands. In Athens 2004 it was USA, China, Russia, Australia, Japan, Germany, Franc and Italy.
This year’s own at China was China, USA, Russia, GB, Germany, Australia, Korea and Japan.
I know that at the end of the Vision 2020 program by the federal Government, we will sure break into that top rank. So help us God.

BOSNIAN POLICE ARRESTS A PIGEON

BOSNIAN police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the country's highest security jails, an official said today.
"The guards suspected the animal might be involved in drug smuggling once they noticed four prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly after the pigeon landed on a prison window," Zenica prison official Josip Pojavnik said.All four inmates had tested positive for heroin, said Mr Pojavnik, adding disciplinary proceedings had been launched against the inmates.

The drugs had probably been stuffed into tiny bags attached to the legs of the carrier pigeon, which one of the prisoners had previously been allowed to keep as a pet in his cell, he said.

"We suspect that the pigeon carried the drugs from Tuzla," a town around 70km north-east of Zenica in central Bosnia, he said.

The pigeon had been taken into custody by police, who have launched an investigation aimed at identifying those who had loaded it up with the drugs.

"We do not know what to do with the pigeon, but for the time being it will remain behind bars," Mr Pojavnik said.

The incident had prompted the prison administration to consider closing down a prisoner pigeon-breeding project established in a ward of the jail as part of a rehabilitation program.


BROTHER AND SISTER HIRES A HITMAN TO KILL DAD TO PREVENT MONEY GOING TO JEHOVA WITNESS

A FORMER teacher and her brother who hired a hitman to murder their elderly father were simply driven by greed, a court has been told.

Maria Angelina Stallone, 44, and Dominic Anthony Natale, 46, are accused of plotting to have their 83-year-old father Dominico Natale murdered in September, 2006.But their plans were foiled when the hitman they hired was an undercover policeman, the Victorian Supreme Court has been told.

Ms Stallone, of Fitzroy, and Mr Natale, of Irymple near Mildura, have each pleaded guilty to one count of incitement to murder.

Prosecutor Geoffrey Horgan SC said the pair had acted out of fear they would miss out on their share of family properties their father was selling in Preston and North Fitzroy in Melbourne.

He said the pair believed the money would end up going to the Jehovah's Witnesses.

"This crime is a particularly unpalatable one. It's motivated simply by greed,"

"She said she didn't want him to suffer but he was going to turf them out and wasn't treating them as his own children,"

ME THINK SAY THIS TYPE NO HAPPEN FOR OYINBO LAND.

That that for now and for this month. Thank u very much.

Monday, July 28, 2008

women Affair

Hi all. We have are coming to the end of another month and then I realized that I’ve not updated my blog for the month of July, so here I am updating my blog.
My blog for this month will be all about women. I’ll start by telling you about the man that successfully delivered a baby girl. Don’t think I’m reneging on my promise to make it an all women affair this month, but come to think of it; is it not the prerogative of women to make babies? So if a man puts to bed, it’s still a women affair. By the way the man’s name is Thomas Beatie.

It's been three weeks since his blue-eyed baby debuted in this world, but Thomas Beatie – better known around the world as the Pregnant Man – can already say this about his daughter's personality: "She's easygoing and mellow and intelligent."

On June 29 at 8:55 p.m., Beatie, 34, a former female beauty pageant contestant, made cultural history as perhaps the first legally transgender male to give birth, bringing into the world a 9 lbs., 5 oz. baby girl named Susan Juliette.

Let’s try and explain “transgender”.
"Transgender" does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual. The precise definition for transgender remains in flux, but includes:
• "Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these."[1]
• "People who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."[2]
• "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sex (and assumed gender) one was assigned at birth."[3]
A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional gender continuum, or exist outside of it as "other," "agender," "intergender," or "third gender". Transgender people may also identify as bigender.
That all for the definition and explanation so lets continue with former pregnant man.
"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," Thomas tells PEOPLE in his first interview since he and wife Nancy returned with their bundle from Bend, Oregon's St. Charles Medical Center. "Just holding her is the best feeling in the world."

Susan – named after Thomas's mother and conceived through artificial insemination with donor sperm – arrived after 40 hours of labor, with Nancy at Thomas's side acting as his coach.

"When Susan finally came out, it was like in slow motion," says Thomas. "I was full of wonder." Echoes Nancy: "There were tears of joy."
This guy has completely gone female.

Both father and daughter came through the birth in perfect health. "I weigh two pounds less than I did before I got pregnant," adds Thomas. "And I don't have a single stretch mark!"

At home, the couple is adjusting to their new nightly schedule: Nancy breastfeeding (by induced lactation, a process using hormones and physical stimulation with a breast pump) and Thomas keeping company while watching TV.

I think this a complete case of what women can do men can do better. Now move to what men can do that women seem to be doing better.

Germany’s Strongest Woman

Meet M/s. Audrey Pfeilschifter from Germany. She has the physique of a Mr. Universe muscle body but with boobs. Oops!
Those pair of boobs sure look amazing and if only those arms do not look so big , then she would have a very well proportioned and beautiful body

Wrong Bra Can Damage Boobs !


They are women’s most important and prized assets and every woman will need to take good care and maintain their shape and form as long as they can. Exercise, weight lifting and the right kind of food can make the muscles toned and the boobs perky.
In the long run , gravity will have an effect on those muscles and if your boobs are big , they will droop faster. No one can fight against time. Even if you wear an earing , your ears can lengthened too. I have seen grandma’s ear lobes drooping. The boobs are heavier than the ear.

George and Laura Bush to divorce after election because of Condi Rice?

Many US tabloids have been flooded with rumors of George W. Bush’s family misfortunes recently. The latest gossip is about George and Laura Bush to divorce after November elections.
George and Laura Bush hardly ever speak to each other. George feels very unhappy and does not want Laura to leave him. However, the newspaper wrote, Laura is tired of everything; she is determined to live her own life.

The couple still keeps their relationship alive just because they are contractually obliged to stay together during George W. Bush’s presidency; it is not a matter of feelings at all.
They are both certain that they have rendered a huge service to their country. They pretend that their marriage is still alive in spite of the fact that it was buried long ago. The divorce will be kept a secret until the president retires, the newspaper wrote.
Laura Bush will reportedly be paid $20 million in case she divorces her husband.
It is worthy of note that it was not the first time, when US tabloids wrote about George W. Bush’s affair with Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Rice became the center of tabloid gossip in the USA two years ago in July. Many US newspapers wrote back then that Condi had a love affair with President Bush.
During the time of Clinton we has Lewinskygate, why cant we have Condigate this time around? Just thinking aloud.

Women older than 100 to give birth in the nearest future

Women aged 100 will be able to give birth within three decades as infertility is eradicated, scientists have predicted. They foresee a world where every female of any age - from childhood upwards - could successfully conceive. Employing techniques still to be developed, scientists believe they could create sperm and eggs from skin cells and combine them to form embryos.

Parents would then be able to choose a so-called "designer" baby, selecting based on characteristics such as hair colour and height to intelligence and disease-free genes.
The forecasts, reported in Nature, were made by leading scientists who were asked to anticipate advances in reproduction by 2038 to mark the 30th birthday of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby.
Davor Solter, of the Institute of Biology in Singapore, said: "It means every person regardless of age will be able to have children. Newborn children could have children and 100-year-olds could have children. It could easily happen in the next 30 years."
I think women will want this research to succeed, all women get your baby making ass up and support the research.

Amy Winehouse a.k.a Amy Crackhouse

On a closing noet, someone should please come to the aid of Amy Crackhouse, sorry Winehouse. She’s too talented to die on us so soon.

I'm only trying to give Linda Ikeji a run for her money. Bye for now.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Conspiracy Theory

There is a conspiracy theory going on right now that the younger generations of Nigerian musicians are gradually and systematically easing out the older generation of musicians. It started as mere rumor after the death of Sunny Okosun but was dispelled when Sammy Needle died.
People said that if the younger generation was actually deleting the older generation, how come Sammy Needle died. Not long after that Steve Rhodes died and most recently Oliver De Coque.

It has now been confirmed that the younger guys are actually expiring the older generation and the death of Sammy Needle has been explained.
They said that the whole plot was hatched at the home of 9ice during the meeting conveyed at the instance of 2face. It is said that the meeting was well attended with the likes of Ruggedman, Soul E, Sound Sultan, Mode 9, Nomolose, Omotala, Black Face, Gino, Olu Maintain, P Square, C-Mion, OJB, Roof top MCs, Tony Tetuila, African China, Alaye, Ikechukwu, Elajoe, Naeto C, Sasha.
The list is endless. Faze and Asa were said not to be in the country as at then and Sanchez had to fly in from Binin City. Sammy Needle was at the meeting. 2face told his fellow artists that as they can see that music is the next big thing In this country and that all hands must be on deck to make sure that the good times they’re having now and the better times to come must be protected. Sound Sultan was said to have observed that he does not understand, that there was no danger to their career as he can see. 2face was said to have told them all that every event and show that’s organized in Nigeria today; that artists are called to perform and this has left out most of the older generation and the older generation are no longer finding it funny. He informed them that the older guys held a meeting in which they agreed to embark on a campaign to discredit the younger guys and return every body’s attention to the old school. He proposed they signed a pact with death to take out the older guys promising death something in return. What was promised death was not disclosed but it is said to be an offer death could not refuse. Almost all at the meeting agreed with the pact. Sound Sultan and Mode 9 said they do not see those guys as a threat to their career but that if all has agreed that they have no choice than to play along. When the list of guys to take out was read; Sammy Needle was said to have objected to that of Steve Rhodes, saying that the man was his mentor. They told him that he was either with them or against them and since Sammy objected vehemently, they had no choice but to take him out. This was to also serve as a warning to any other discontenting voice.
The list of the remaining older guys on death row is as follows, Fatai Rolling Dollars, sunny ade, Orlando Julius, etc.
These ones it was agreed will be kept under observation: shina peters, onyeka onwenu, orits wiliki, raskimono, evi edna, okoro jnr, T Mac, Charly Boy, Christy Essien Igbokwe, etc.
So who will be next to go?

Friday, May 30, 2008

Un-usual

WHEN 9JA GO REACH THIS LEVEL?

The latest work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick gathered 1,840 people, baring it all in Austria's Happel Stadium on Sunday.

The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.
"Stay very still. Don't move," the Austria Press Agency quoted Tunick as telling the crowd as he went to work.


This foto shoot was at the stadium.Much of the hours-long photo shoot had little to do with soccer, with naked volunteers assuming different poses at the behest of the artist. But at least one of the photos had them with the ball, men first and then the women.

The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 final.

Tunick has made a name for himself with his works featuring hundreds of naked people at unusual venues. He described Sunday's shooting on his Web site as combining "the spirit of sports, the grand sweeping waves of stadium architecture and the abstract relation of the human form to modern structures."


OBAMA PERSON

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Doris Smith went downtown early Monday to see about getting tickets to Barack Obama's rally. Advance seats were sold out, she said, and the only option was to stand in line for up two hours or more and hope for the best.

Disappointed, she decided instead to go for breakfast - and walked right into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop.


"Oh, I didn't want to do this," Smith said, embarrassed, wearing an Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. "I didn't know she was going to be here."

Clinton, however, passed up the biscuit counter. She signed autographs and posed for pictures with the mostly older clientele who gathered for a late Monday morning breakfast.


Smith, who lives in nearby Institute, said she liked Clinton but prefers Obama.

"We've got to get the Republicans out of there," she said.

As Clinton left the building, Smith stepped up to shake her hand. She told the candidate that getting a Democrat in office was her priority.

"It's been too long since we have," Clinton agreed, touching Smith's shoulder gently, and smiling.

IF NA 9JA THIS WOMAN TRY TRY THIS, THE POLITICIAN'S THUGS FOR SHOW HER PEPER.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

6team

some times in 2003 a saw a gospel on TV called mu mi dele by a group of very young Nigerian and i most say i loved the song the moment i heard because the song was this kind of soul stiring kind of song. The song was on air for a while and after no more and i vever heard anything about the group again. I concluded they were one of those one hit wonder but i keep remembering that song and constantly wishing those guys had made it far. One day i decided to google ou their name and what i got shorked me. By the way the name of the group is 6team.
Unknowingly to me, the group had not just made success but good success. I mean this group has left the shores of 9ja and making it big in UK. My joy knew no bounds that day. Here is the interview they granted on this site. Enjoy it.

6Team is a five man group on a musical mission to take Gospel music to the next level.
This group is made up of two sets of brothers and a friend. For the past nine years, this group has been getting accolades for the inspirational works that they have put together.
Unlike many groups that fall apart after a couple of years of successes, 6Team has maintained their friendship and their mission which is to spread the message of God’s love to all.
The interview.

How did you guys meet and start performing together?
We used to sing in the same neighborhood and play together. A couple of us were already performing in church choirs. Since we were already friends with the love of music and Christ in common – it seemed to come together for us to all perform together. That is how the whole concept of 6Team came together which is a team of brothers and friends with Jesus in the center coming together to praise God.

I know that you have an album currently released in the United Kingdom? How has the reception been?
Yes, we released our second album in the UK. It is a double CD album and the names of the CDs are “approved” (worship session) and “get loose” (praise session). The response in the United Kingdom has been great so far. We will be coming to the UK in the next three to four weeks to promote this album at different venues in the UK. We intend to release the album in Nigeria towards the end of this year.

I love that name “get loose”. What kind of gospel fusion should we be expecting in that album?
Get loose is contemporary Christian music with a fusion reggae, hip hop, pop, rock with its base in African music. We try to maintain some pieces of African elements in our music.

So has the team struggled in any way in terms of collaborating with other artists that many might consider as being “worldly”?
Not really. We know what we are here to do and that has not stopped us in any way from collaborating with anyone. We all have our different gifts and talents and they are all from God.

I know that on your new CD, listeners should be expecting something definitely hot and spicy from your group. I also know that there are some hot collaborations with some heavy weight Nigerian musicians – can you please name some of them?
Yes, we have a collaboration with Rugged Man on the song, Holy Ghost party. We also worked with OJB Jezreel who wrote African Queen which is one of the top songs in the continent. We also have Dare Art Alade and Cobhams collaborating on this cd as well to mention a few.
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Here is their myspace address. http://www.myspace.com/the6team

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Easter + funny stuffs

Easter is that time of the year we christians remember the ultimate price Christ paid on the mount of carlvary to redeem mankind. At this time of the year i usually embark on personal retreat and soul searching. This is the period i ask myself questions on the choices i've made.
Apart from that, the fact that easter is here comes with a big relieve. Since i come from a catholic family, we were made to resite the rosery every morning and night through out the duration of lent. The decades counting on the rosery is really getting at me and i'm happy it'll come to an end any moment from now.

I just think i should share a few funny jokes and pics even though i feel i'm the only one that reads my blog.


BABY BEAN


IF THIS BABY WAS A NIGERIAN, HE'D HAVE BEEN D'BANG(KOKO MASTER)



I'M SURE THIS BABY LEARNT TO EAT FROM THE TOILET FROM GARFIELD



FUNNY STORIES

Best Known Man In The World

There was a man named Sulio and Sulio knew EVERYONE in the whole world!!! Once when Sulio got a new job, Sulio says to his new boss, "Boss, I know everyone in the whole world!" His boss doesn't believe him, so he says "No you do not know everyone in the whole world" but Sulio says "Yes I do!" so Sulio's boss says "Well prove it!" then Sulio says "Pick someone... and I know them!"
Well Sulio's boss thinks for a minute and then comes up with a name. "Tom Selleck! I bet you don't know Tom Selleck!" Sulio says "Tom Selleck! Tom and I were in boy scouts together when we were kids!" but Sulio's boss says "No you weren't!" then Sulio says "Yes we were!" so they fly to Hollywood and drive up to Tom Selleck's house. Sulio knocks on the door and Tom Selleck answers and Sulio goes "Tom!!!" and Tom goes "Sulio!" and they hug and catch up for 30 minutes and Sulio's boss can't believe it. But then he thinks "Well that could happen, it's just one person," so he tells Sulio and Sulio says "OK, pick somebody else!"

This time Sulio's boss has someone in mind! "The president, Bill Clinton! You don't know Bill Clinton!" but Sulio says "Oh yes I do! Bill and I were on debate team together in college!" Sulio's boss says "No you weren't!" and Sulio says "Yes we were!" so they fly to Washington and they catch up with the President at a press conference. They work their way through the crowd until Sulio get's close enough to catch Clinton's eye and waves "Bill!" and the President waves "Sulio!" and after the press conference they hug and catch up for 30 minutes and Sulio's boss is stunned-- he can't believe it. But then he thinks "Well that's just two people in one country-- that doesn't mean he knows everyone in the whole world!" so he tells Sulio and Sulio says "OK, pick someone out of the world spectrum and I know them!"

And Sulio's boss knows just who to pick so he says "The Pope! You do not know the Pope!" and Sulio says "The Pope! The Pope BAPTIZED me!" and Sulio's boss says "No he didn't!" and Sulio says "Yes he did!" so they fly to Rome where the Pope is giving Mass in front of hundreds of thousands of people. They work their way through the crowd-- without much luck-- so Sulio says "Boss, we're never gonna get there together through all these people so I tell you what--I'll work my way up there and when I do, I'll give you a sign that shows you I know the Pope!" and he leaves. Well Sulio's boss waits and waits and waits and just when he's about to give up, he sees the Pope come out onto the balcony and right there beside him is Sulio!

Shortly afterwards, Sulio's boss passes out. Sulio comes back and finds his boss passed out and he fans him and says "Boss! Boss! Wake up!" and when his boss comes to, he asks "Boss what happened?" Sulio's boss looks at Sulio and says "OK, I can see Tom Selleck. I can see Bill Clinton... hell, I can even take the Pope! But when somebody standing next to me asks 'Who's that up there with Sulio?' that's a little more than I can take!

Deaf Collection

The mafia boss is looking for a new man to make weekly collections from all the private businesses that they were 'protecting'. Feeling the heat from the police force, he decides to use a deaf person for the job -- if he were to get caught, he wouldn't be able to communicate to the police what he was doing.

On his first week, the deaf collector picks up over $50,000. He gets greedy, decides to keep the money and stashes it in a safe place. The mafia boss soon realizes that his collection is late, and sends some of his hoods after the deaf collector. The hoods find the deaf collector and ask him where the money is. The deaf collector can't communicate with them, so the hoods drag the guy to an interpreter.

One of the hoods says to the interpreter, "Ask him where da money is."

The interpreter signs, "Where's the money?"

The deaf man replies, "I don't know what you're talking about."

The interpreter tells the hood, "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about."

The hood pulls out a .38 pistol and places it in the ear of the deaf collector. "NOW ask him where da money is."

The interpreter signs, "Where is the money?"

The deaf man signs, "The $50,000 is in Central Park, hidden in the third tree stump on the left from the West 78th Street gate."

The interpreter says to the hood, "He says he still doesn't know what you're talking about and doesn't think you have the guts to pull the trigger!"

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This should be my longest post so far, so i think i picked up a few tricks from Linda Ikeji.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Entertainment Gist

Our 9ja artists are really taking the game to next level. Heard our darling 2face has cooked up a new joint with R of RnB himself; R Kelly and Chakademus and Pliers. Cant wait to sample those joints.


Also heard that our own one and only Faze has sorted out his deal with Akon. I’m so happy for him cos it turned out that gist wasn’t a scope after all. Some one actually termed it the biggest scope of 2007.

His fans now has reason to smile. We love you Faze. Also heard he has a new track with the samboribo crooner Sauce Kid. This guys are really doing us proud.
Still talking about Sauce Kid, heard the Kid also has a new stuff with Rugged. Hope guys will be able to survive what ever that joint is made of, cos I cant begine to imagine what those two very talented rappers will come up with.