I am a sucker for comedy. I can’t just help a good laugh or some socking stupidity or impossibility. Yesterday, I watched “Small Time Crooks”. I guess this should be the fifth time I am watching this movie. The movie is so nice and funny that one can even listen to it, without seeing any images, and will still love it.

This movie is about a very broke couple who are almost jobless, and rely on stealing and tricking others to earn a living. The woman thinks it is time to get out of that life but the man thinks with one more bank robbery, they can make it and take a vacation to Florida. The movie doesn’t say exactly which, but my best shot will be one of the destin florida vacations.

The man of the house sees a place for rent and believes that they can rent it and drill a tunnel from it to a bank. He invites two of his friends and convinces the lady to be part of the deal. The lady fronts the place by selling cookies while they are busy in the back drilling to the bank. They make a mistake and gets caught, but instead of turning them in, the cops proposes to be part of the cookie business which has flourished beyond anyone’s expectation.

After a year, they make lot of cash but were swindled out of it all. This was easy since they were all illiterates. What makes me happy is that the movie doesn’t end sad. They realized that with all that money, they couldn’t love each other as much as they did when they were broke.

All they needed was a vacation to Florida and somehow, they got it.

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Every system in entropy is difficult to appreciate. Being organized serves a good purpose. Organization involves sorting out things and placing them in the correct hierarchy, order or position so that they can be easily recognized or accessed. Organization is necessary everywhere, including the World Wide Web.

Before the advent of search engines like Live, Google, Bing, etc… people needed a mechanism that can help them easily find information or websites in the web. The most common method implemented was the creation of web directories. A web directory is a website, or portal that lists other websites in categories so that those websites, and the information published in them, can be easily found by a user browsing the web directory.

Let’s take a business directory, for example. A business we directory will list hundreds/thousands of business sites into categories. These categories could include the various types of businesses. Various types of businesses, with regards to ownership, will include Sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and cooperative. A business directory may also classify businesses according to the activities involved, thus, it may have categories like Agriculture/Mining, Financial, Informational, manufacturing, real estate, retailing, services, transportation, utilities, etc.

Despite the advent of search engines which have helped to make searching a breeze, people are still not giving up on web directories. Popular web directories like the Yahoo Directory, Google Directory and DMOZ have a place that can not be completely taken over by search engines.

The advantages of submitting a website to a web directory can never be overlooked. If this is wisely done, one can gain quality backlinks to his/her site and experience a high ranking in popular search engines like Google. Also, an influx of traffic is obvious since one will be having extra visits from users of the directories and from search engines.

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Uncle Che told me how he developed very strong passion for movies. He said the very first time he watch a TV screen, in 1983, the very first scene was a movie, which of course he can’t really remember. However, what was very prominent was that a soldier on the run hit a mind and a bomb exploded and threw him to the ground.

Though that incident got him very scared at first, he later on realized that it was very interesting and fulfilled. He always wanted to watch a movie on each opportunity but his major problem was that he always went to bed early while the movies start at 11pm. He always bullied his younger brothers and sisters to wake him up when the movies start. He could accept anything be done to get him up, including hitting him hard or pouring water on his back.

Movies to him were equally as great as music. His dad was running a small home business of selling drinks. Uncle Che always loved sitting behind the console and selecting the music to play and deciding on how the knobs have to be tweaked to produce good performance.

Today, it is no surprise to me that the best of what he wishes for is a career in the movie industry; sound engineering and video editing. He is planning on starting with sound engineering (Pro Tools, to be specific) in South Africa (Sound Engineering Academy) before moving into a university that offers courses in Film. I guess as his life partner, I will have to fall in love with the mic and camcorder. It is just natural to love what your love loves, as long as it doesn’t go against ethical, moral and religious principles.

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I remember back in Primary and secondary school, we were taught many patriotic songs. I have some to realize that those songs were not only for entertainment or development of singing skills, but for the sake of instilling patriotic thoughts into the minds of young citizens. One of those songs, my favorite, goes “…ask yourself what you have done for your country, then you can ask what the country has done unto you. oh yea–ah oh yeah…”

I recently learned about “Youth Service” in Nigeria, a program that allows graduates to serve the nation for a period of One year before they are allowed to freely go into the job market. This service is invaluable to the state. As a sign of appreciation, the state gives these graduate some pocket money for, at least. transport fare to their job site.

Why is that not done in Cameroon?

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Why do you like a mobile home? The first reason you may likely give is that it is mobile. Yeah, not only that. It is also cheaper than regular homes, takes very short time to be built, and easier to claim ownership of.

Looking at the other side of the coin, mobile homes hardly increase in value over time, not sturdy, difficult to keep at a steady temperature, and difficult to soundproof.

Though mobile homes are cheap and a great means of saving money, I still prefer traditional homes for security and comfort.

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I slept for less than 3hrs last night. Went to bed at about 4am and got up at a few minutes to 7am. I hurriedly took my bath and now I am on my way to school but the rain won’t allow me to make a move. It was almost sudden. Dark clouds, a strong breeze and then…it started pouring.

I guess you know what happens when it started pouring here. The electricity corporation, AES Sonel, puts out power and one should normally expect things to be normal only after the rains are over. I really can’t learn at home after making up my mind to go to school, neither can I have some fun since my PC, Radio or TV can’t go operational.

Learning on campus is very convenient for me because distraction is minimal, unlike at home when friends knock at my door on hourly basis, wanting to exchange stories with me. From now till mid December when I am through with my ACCA, I have very little of not time to spare. I have to do some serious time management to avoid falling in the hands of “bad fate”. 

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Searching Google is so easy that no one gets taught how to go about it. You just start searching and go on searching and searching until someday you realize you are a pro. Unconsciously, there are certain search principles that you just understand and take into consideration while searching. For example;

• All search terms matter
• Unnecessary words limit a search
• Synonyms give different results
• Search terms are not case sensitive

Let’s consider searching for jobs in the city of Philadelphia. Which of the entries below will be the most appropriate?
–Searching for jobs in Philadelphia
–Jobs in Philadelphia city
–city of philadelphia jobs
–Jobs Philadelphia
–I want to find jobs in Philadelphia

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The opening of a lone Anglosaxon University in Buea has surged the population, leading you high economic activities. Lots of startups, as well as previously established business, are searching for very strategic location near the lone main road thereby increasing the rate at which new houses are being built along the main road and also increasing the cost of such houses.

Some people, like always is the case, are talking great advantage of this to sell plots near the road at unbelievably high prices. The demand for such houses is so high that people start bargaining for rooms right from the initial stage when it is still under construction. Some institutions pay rents for a five-year term before a building is completed.

Despite the rapid growth of Molyko, town planning is still at its worst. People erect structures just anywhere and they are allowed to continue. Well, not that the big guys up there don’t know their job. I guess their consciences permit them collect bribe at the expense of the town’s accessibility and presentation.

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The beautiful ones are not yet born? Hmm. That means no matter what you do you are not beautiful and will never be beautiful. Keep that beauty stories for your kids to tell and pass on because they are the only ones that will be beautiful.

Don’t stuff yourself with all that makeup, because, like TLC says in the song “pretty”, it is not going to make you any prettier. Use all the creams you want, on your face and even eye cream around your eyes. You are still you and will always be you.

The beauty inside is the one that shines in the darkest of nights even in the absence of makeup. That is the beauty this phrase “The beautiful ones are not yet born” refers to. Every beauty, whether the outside or the inside has a role to play but always bear in mind that in outplays out at 9:1

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Sincerely, I never knew how laser printers operate until recently. The word “laser” always gave me the inpression that it was technology of a higher order and therefore produces the best possible print quality. I guess I was just in a nightmare.

Here, I found myself an HP Laserjet 1100 that prints like photocopying and the print quality is far less than that of my previous deskjet and injet printers. Oh, one more thing. Just like a photocopier, it uses dry ink. Is that a characteristic of all laser printers?

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