Harmful Effects of Soda on Your Body

Sure, there’s nothing quite like soda to go along with that burger and fries you’ve decided to have for lunch. Not unless you care about what you put in your body and what long-term effects it is going to have on your well-being. If you do care about your health and your body, however, take a look at the harmful effects of soda consumption over time.



Peeps, after this creepy presentation, am officially off Soda! Ever!

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10 Things Your Doctor May Not Tell You

For better or for worse, your doctor doesn’t always tell you everything, and what you are told, isn’t always presented with complete objectivity. In most cases this is done to deter harmful activities you might be indulging while in other cases it’s simply because they’re trying to solve the particular issue you come in with as efficiently as possible, without discussing other potential problem areas. This graphic looks at 10 things your doctor may be less than clear about.



Source: Term Life Insurance

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I will marry when I want!

You know of late, everyone around me is either married, or planning a wedding, or announcing an engagement, things are happening for people.

Sometimes things like that put us in a state of thinking, Is something the matter with me? And then there these people who think they have figured out the whole equation of love, family, happiness, who tend to sit you down and try to tell you, Lady, its about time, the years are passing by.

Very many people have different theories about Marriage, when the right time is, what age you should get married, when you should have kids, etc. But my question is, Is there a pre-planned age of when one finds the right one? Or maybe not the right one, but the one that will be the person you spend the rest of your life with?

I think what I understand in my humble opinion is that everyone experiences Love when it comes to them. For the ladies out there who may be stuck up in the same circle of friends, trying to tell you, its now or never, I have got news for you.
I believe in Love, and I believe I will experience it when it comes, but am not going to search for it, it comes when it comes and you know it's true love when you are in it!

So all these stories of, you got to be married in your 20's and then by 35 you are supposed to have given birth to all your babies, and then sit down and wait to die, don't rock it for me.

Ladies, live your freakin lives like you have never before, enjoy every moment, live in the moment, rock them' dresses and high heels, go out, party, trust God and hey, before you know it, things will happen. All am saying is, there is no pre- defined formula for finding love. Just because your friend married at 20, and they feel its right, that is them, do not let them stuck it up to you to do the same.

I love my life, OMG, I can't even begin to tell you how much! But you know what, am living in the moment, doing what I got to do, and when that time comes, I will live that moment too.

And I want all the ladies out there to embrace that!

So, like Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote "I will marry when I want".

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Maverick Meerkat coming out soon! 10.10.10

Anybody excited about the newer release of Ubuntu, the Maverick Meerkat 10.10?
Well, am so excited about it, and it will be released on 10.10.10.

I can't wait. There are lots of new features that are being announced, be sure to check out the Canonical Blog for all the details of the new features.

Check out Mark Shuttleworth in this exclusive interview, as he discusses the new release and what we should expect.



Am excited about the release, and am more excited that I love Ubuntu. For Desktop, I don't think I can be caught with another Operating System apart from Ubuntu.

I was priviledged to meet Mark Shuttleworth in person twice on two different conferences and I can't tell you how much of an excitement that was in my life.

I met him first at Africa Source II, that was held in Kalangala Islands way back in Jan 2006, and later the next month, we met at another conference in Nairobi called IDLELO 2 and I took this picture with him :-) [Am on the right, dressed in Black]

A friend, Mark Shuttleworth, Evelyn at IDLELO2 Conference, Nairobi

So I love Ubuntu as a person, but I love it more, because I met one of my mentors in person! How cool is that?

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Back In-Style!

My work today, in a nutshell

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Experiment on Content (Yesterday's radio)

A very interesting argument has been ongoing on my Linux User Group forum about some one or groups of people that came up with an Idea, which idea was simple.

According to these guys, Africa's content will mostly be audio and video. So they came up with an 'innovation' of creating 'Yesterday's radio'. The Idea is simple, they have an archive of broadcasts of popular radio stations in Uganda, that go as far back as the beginning of the year. They provide you with a url, and you are able to listen to broadcasts from these radio stations, which is basically an archive.

Now this story really caught so many people's attention, some feel it is a beautiful idea, others however feel, it is theft, these guys are not supposed to be re-broadcasting content that is not 'theirs'. They own no right to this content, and they haven't paid any royalties to the owners of the content, radio stations etc.

So the issue of copyrights, theft, royalties came up!

I want you to follow this thread and let me know what your views are about this issue.

Thread here;

Please take time to read through the different responses from the different folks and tell me where you stand.

Is it a great idea? or is it not?

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with PHP 5.2.10

We all love new releases, especially when it comes to software, all we think about is the need to upgrade and get all the fixes to the bugs we had with the previous stable version, but what we forget is that even the newer versions of software come with their down side, well at times.

Yesterday I had an experience with my new Lucid Lynx, after the upgrade I needed to install egroupware on it, the installation was seamless thank God for the already available software in the repositories.
One thing though is that Lucid comes with the latest PHP5.3 which is not yet so compatible with some applications and has a lot of deprecated errors.

If you are a person who uses Drupal alot, or even Wordpress you will find that you can not have these installations working on a machine with PHP 5.3 which Ubuntu 10.04 ships with. It throws alot of deprecated errors that are annoying and even make the applications fail to work.

So, egroupware also has an issue with the latest PHP 5.3, after my installation, I was not able to log into my egroupware application.
When you enter the right username and password, it just returns you back to the log in page with an error "wrong username or password", yet the credentials are right.
Took me time to crack what the issue was. Checked my database backend and all my users and there encrypted passwords were there. I checked the apache error logs, and there it was... alot of deprecated errors thrown by PHP.

I hit the web and the only solution I found was to actually down grade my PHP from 5.3 of Lucid to 5.2.10 of Karmic Koala.
I found a very nice site that helped me get started; click here.

So after removing all the PHP 5.3 files, I installed all the PHP 5.2.10 files I needed for egroupware to run, pinned them down so that Lucid doesn't try to upgrade my files to the latest again, and I was able to log into my install.Now I have a fully functional egroupware application on my Lucid Lynx.

So next time you face a similar situation, I hope you can get some answers here.

Let me know if you find this helpful.

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Ubuntu offline upgrades using the Alternate CD

I have done a couple of Ubuntu upgrades, and most recently to Lucid Lynx the latest Long Term Release[LTS] from Ubuntu.
Most of the times, I just do the online upgrades when am not in a hurry and it obviously takes long given our bandwidth speeds here in Africa.

I discovered I had downloaded an alternate Ubuntu 10.04 iso image when the release came out in April and I found an easier way to actually run the upgrades in the most minimal time.

If your bandwidth is not good enough, you might want to consider doing an offline upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from the version 9.10 [Karmic Koala]. If you have a much lower version for instance 9.04, then you will have to first upgrade it to 9.10 and then to the 10.04 LTS.

So here is the procedure - I did it this morning on one of the machines I had to upgrade and do some installations and found it much easier given the Internet speeds we have.

So first you will have to download the Ubuntu alternate 10.04 iso image from the Ubuntu website, and you can decide to make a CD from the iso, but if you hate CDs like I do, you can follow the steps below.

1. On your terminal, type the following command;
sudo mount -o loop /tmp/ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso /cdrom

Note: You can mount the iso to either /cdrom or even /media/cdrom they should both be able to work. The above command assumes that my iso image was saved in /tmp, choose the location where you kept your iso image and modify the command accordingly.

2. After running the above command, you should be able to see a pop-up window that says: 'A distribution volume with software packages has been detected". You can then follow the on-screen instructions and go on and do your upgrade.

If no pop shows up, try holding ALT and press F2, then type this in the Run window:

gsku "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"
OR
in Kubuntu "kdesudo "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

A pop-up window should now show up, follow the on-screen instructions to upgrade your machine offline.

3. You are done! This process usually takes not more that an hour and a half, yet the online upgrade will take you atleast 3 hours or more to complete the installation.

So if you are want to upgrade your machine from the previous Ubuntu version and find that Internet connection is a problem, you can consider this method. Just always have your alternate iso image CD ready.

Note: The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS alternate iso image can be downloaded from this page;

Enjoy your Ubuntu experience.

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Shooting the sacred cows of money - Robert Kiyosaki

As I focus on my new year, obviously I look back and see what I have achieved in my last year!
Its been quite hectic, but finally I finished the "Go to School" part that Robert Kiyosaki talks about in the video below.

Financial education is one very important aspect that I love to venture in, and I can't tell you how reading 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' has helped me prioritize my opportunities in life.

All of life is about learning to make your money work for you instead of the on going struggle that we go through everyday, waking up in the morning to go 'Work Hard' for somebody else.

So, I have put my guns down, will take one day at a time, but am going to purpose to make my life better, and learn about finances and learn about Investing! That is what smart people do.

I will let you know, every step of the way, how this goes!

Enjoy a series of videos below from Robert Kiyosaki's sacred cows!

Go to School from Rich Dad on Vimeo.

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