Nigerian Football Clubs to be investigated for match-fixing after....

79-0 & 67-0 results...

Four Nigerian football clubs have been suspended ahead of an investigation into match-fixing after a race for promotion led to a pair of ridiculous final-day scorelines.

Plateau United Feeders and Police Machine, two amateur sides chasing one spot in Nigeria’s Nationwide League Division 3 – the bottom tier of Nigeria’s professional leagues – needed to out-score the other to ensure they would be the ones turning pro.

However, the Nigerian FA quite understandably grew suspicious of Plateau’s 79-0 win over Akurba FC and Machine’s 67-0 thumping of Babayaro FC.

Making matters fishier, Plateau-Akurba were reportedly 7-0 at half-time while Machine-Babayaro were 6-0 at the interval.

Both winning sides began the tournament with 2-0 wins, before holding each other to a 0-0 stalemate. This meant that if both clubs won their final games, it would come down to goal difference.

But despite Plateau’s second-half goal-rate averaging at an alarming goal every 40 seconds and technically placing them top, all four clubs will instead face disciplinary action.

The NFF called the scores from Monday's tournament in the northeastern city of Bauchi "a mind-boggling show of shame".

"This is a scandal of huge proportions," NFF vice president Mike Umeh said.

"The four teams involved are suspended immediately and indefinitely, pending further sanctions. We will investigate this matter thoroughly and get to the bottom of it."

"The teams involved, their players and officials, match officials, (tournament) coordinator and anyone found to have played some role in this despicable matter (will) be severely dealt with," NFF director of competitions Mohammed Sanusi added.

The Amazing Spiderman...

Heal Me....

Shorts can only be so short....

Few celebrities start the trend of wearing short shorts and flashing their bits, and now we have the sheep following in droves; doing the same and competing to show more and more...

Don't get me wrong, I love legs, I love women and I love nudity, but keeping a little bit hidden adds to the mystery.

Does my bum look big in these?

Shorts can only be so short, otherwise, it's just porn...

Another Syfy First...

There is a reason why nobody in the mainstream wants to make a Movie like that... Because IT IS SHIT and a TERRIBLE IDEA....

Another CGI induced $1000 Movie

Class of 2013

 

Congratulations - 17th July 2013

Wake Me Up...

Doctor, Doctor, Give me the news - I've got a bad case of .....

I've just built a computer for a customer & everything seem to go smoothly, the usual build with no drama, everything seems to be functioning...

I tested the rig using a live Linux CD and everything seems to be OK, however, and during installing the Windows OS, I kept on getting very strange errors with regards to missing file, corrupt files, unable to format the HD and unable to copy files to the HD...

I thought that the problem was a HD problem, so I ordered another HD and installed that, with the same problem happening.

It might be the DVD drive, so I replace that - And the problem persists..

I will try an external DVD drive, same problem...


Lets try and set-up Windows from a Flash Drive - and same problem occurred.

What can it be?... I've already wasted 2 days changing everything I can think of, apart from the Memory Stick.

And well and behold, replacing the memory stick resolved all those problems, so very weird....

Thank you Microsoft for descriptive error messages that bare no resemblance to the actual error...

Software Installer Scam..

You're surfing the net, looking for that piece of software that promises to change your life. You click on the link & download the installer..

You run the downloaded "setup.exe" file. This seems to be a Generic effort with no indication as to what it is exactly you are trying to install, with only an Accept & a Decline button.

You click on the accept, and a list of Spyware induced browser bars & add-ons are installed without your consent.  And it does not matter whether you say Yey or Nay, the installer will chug along nicely, making sure that every corner of your PC is infested with stuff that you do not want, need or know about...

I tried to run one of those dubious installers in a "Sand Box" in order to see what I would get

I tried to download small USB Flash Formatter - Less than 1MB in size...  And I ended up installing over 56MB of Spyware and junk, using this "Optimum Installer", and the best thing is that; the original Piece of software that I was after, was never downloaded or installed. What a BIG PIECE OF CRAP...

Please avoid all installers that ask you to install additional software, browser search engines, browser helpers, browser bars, registry cleaners, super offer junkifiers (whatever that means), etc... You don't need those and they will only slow your PC down and annoy you to no end...

The Tao of Pinochet - So bad, it's good....

Bitter Mint - Part I

Around 1 year ago I bought a Windows 7 HP Compaq PC, for a customer, from PC-World. I installed the software & tried to marry this PC with an ELO touchscreen... One little problem, the PC hangs on boot until I remove the ELO touchscreen USB cable, but after it boots and I plug-in the USB touchscreen, everything seems to work just fine...

The customer complained, so I swapped the PC with another generic unit. This setup worked perfectly and the customer was happy...

A few weeks later, I tried to flog the same PC to another customer, and this time also, I had the same exact boot & bios issues, so I just left the PC on one side, until I have a chance to investigate it further, sell it or use it myself.

All attempts to change boot delay, or to ignore USB devices during booting failed.

For a while now, I have been thinking of moving my software base away from Windows and into Linux,so I thought what better way than to start with a dual boot set-up on this machine. 2 birds, 1 stone...

I have used both LinuxMint, & UBUNTU in the past, but I thought to read a few reviews as with regards to the most stable and suitable distribution, and I opted for the following 3 candidates...

[1] Linux Mint 15 Olivia - 64-bit
[2] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - 64-bit
[3] Zorin OS-7 - 64-bit

So before rediscovering the wonderful world of Linux, I had to connect the PC to the internet and download the ISO images for the preferred Linux Distros.... During that time, Windows 7 decided to get on the act and download and install a few security updates - 110 to be precise, starting from 12:45PM until 6:30PM, before a reboot and another 27 minutes installing the updates...

After a quick 7 hour update and a reboot, I decided to install Linux Mint first to see what I was missing... The setup went smoothly with no discernible hiccups or problems...

Continues....

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I've been a Skype user & account subscriber for the past (many, many) years and everything was going great - I regarded Skype as an essential extension to my business & personal life, and regarded it as a  solid piece of software that always worked, that had never let me down, ever...

Skype, the company, was bought and sold on many occasions, but the software and service stayed true to it's origins... That is until now, Microsoft bought Skype back in 2011 for $8.5 billion dollars, which is a lot of money, by anybodies standards, and after a buggy software rewrite, they decided to somehow recoup that amount by introducing sneaky advertising, which I do not mind and adding few software instabilities in the process, which I do mind....

Today, there was another Skype update, this seem to crash the program on loading, but if you press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and stop the process and then reload everything, then it will run for a while, until the built-in memory leak catches up with you, and then you will have to completely reboot your OS.

I really hate it when software crashes and when a company like Microsoft releases something that is so unstable, especially when they had such a solid base to start from...

Me, I decided to downgrade my Skype experience, no advertising, no HD video, no new features and no crashes...
 

I love the summer...

I love watermelons during the warm summer months, and as per usual, every week I go to the local supermarket and get a few of those beauties...

The only one little problem, picking those seems to be a bit of a hit and miss affair, where sometimes those, melons, are good, sweet, juicy and very tasty while other-times they are really, really mushy, slimy and generally very bad.

So in order to avoid melon disappointments and disasters, I decided to employ the same technique that my late mother used to utilise when picking watermelons, a tried and tested technique that had already yielded a 100% success rate, so I thought - Only little problem is the only thing that I remember from that technique is tapping the watermelon and dependent on the sound returned, one can decide whether the melon is ripe, good, bad or ugly...

So I go to the supermarket and stand there tapping melons, more akin to playing bongo drums, and listening to the sound, sadly this method has thus far resulted in  100% failure rate, but because of the way I look, I get approached by people who think that I possess the long-lost art of watermelon dousing, so they ask whether a melon they had picked is good or bad, and I usually oblige, by playing the bongos with those melons and giving them my answer with some authority... And as I mentioned earlier, this method has proved to be an unmitigated disaster...

Today, and as per usual, I went to the local supermarket and randomly picked a melon, no tapping or banging, just a random melon selection, and much to my surprise, this was the sweetest and juiciest melon I have bought this year....

So now I have a sure fire winning way of picking sweet and juicy melons, "the don't bother, don't give a shit and just pick a random melon method", now the only problem is how to avoid all those people that I had upset in the past with substandard melon advice...

Rudimental - Waiting All Night feat. Ella Eyre...

Every now and then there is something that makes me feel good inside, and this video does it.. I love the song and the video...

Don't be tempted by the shiny apple... Part II

And just when I thought that it was safe to enter the water, and a customer comes with SONY Mobile, asking me to download and recover his images from this defunct & busted mobile piece of junk (from the phone's built-in memory).

I told him that I don't deal with mobile phones, but he was adamant, that I should, because he does not trust anybody else.

Apparently, the mobile can still be connected and charged from the PC's USB cable... Only problem, the device was not recognised. A scour round the internet told me that I needed to install the SONY - Media Go suite, AND I WISH I DIDN'T!...

If you thought APPLE'S iTunes & iPod combo are bad, then you clearly haven't used the SONY - Media Go.  This program seems to have tentacles, spreading like a VIRUS across your hard drive, with over 2680+ Registry entries, automatically loading and automatically re-installing itself if it does not detect it's icon or short-cut on the desktop, or if you decide to un-install it or stop it from loading at runtime, with no amount of effort managing the feat of removing this humongous & behemoth piece of spyware crap...

With the only way possible, being a 4 way pronged, and simultaneous, attack:

[1] Add and Remove Program...

[2] Registry Editor - Remove every Sony / Media Go Entry.

[3] Search and physically delete every SONY folder and it's contents & Media Go folders.

[4] Delete the local installer.  "27d949.msi"

Reboot and hope for the best, and your computer will feel better, faster, leaner, meaner and love you for it...

When will software developers learn that BIGGER & more complex is not always better - Software should not be measured by weight, size or complexity...

So bye, bye SONY Media Go Go...

Internet Explorer - Is it just me...

Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer Advert, and UK TV transcript of voice over.

Please note that there are a few "international" versions about  

Imagine the wife of Santa-Claus doing the narration:

Some personal information, we're happy to share.  Some. less so.

So Microsoft is trying to help by adding tracking protection in Internet Explorer.

And encouraging the adoption of the "Do Not Track" feature, with the belief that one day, it to will give you more control.

The lines between public & private my never be perfect but at Microsoft,
Your privacy is our priority... 

*I might have, accidentally, added 1 or 2 words - Sorry...

But why spend million$ advertising and developing something that you are giving away for FREE If it wasn't for tracking users & demographics...