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Phone upgrades and iGadget digs

Friday, 27 November 2009 2:34 A GMT+01

I upgrade my HTC Touch Diamond 2 ROM and along the way air my opinion on iGadgets.

Akin Akintayo

Seeing hospital meals again

Saturday, 26 September 2009 3:09 A GMT+01

Coincidence or uncanny, I blog about hospital meals and end up being horribly sick thrice. Don't worry, I am sick-bag trained, no mess.

Akin Akintayo

Thought Picnic: Justifying MPs Expenses

Wednesday, 13 May 2009 1:15 P GMT+01

My view on the MPs expenses tittle-tattle and gossip appearing in The Daily Telegraph

Akin Akintayo

Nigeria: When women rage with the pudenda and the paps

Thursday, 30 April 2009 9:31 P GMT+01

The women are using unusual weapons of warfare to effect political dialogue and change, I think it would be very effective

Akin Akintayo

A noisily sexually active couple have a Anti-Social Behavioural Order slapped on them with the wife now in jail with the prospect of a jury trail. Don't think that is what ASBOs were created for, let good commonsense prevail.

Akin Akintayo

Whose balls? A Carry On

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:24 A GMT+01

The mainstay of British cinema and the producer of the Carry On films dies and I mourn the passing of a kind of English humour.

Akin Akintayo

Novotel St. Pan Crap

Sunday, 29 March 2009 4:35 P GMT+01

A classic case of where the lack of consideration and initiative from hotel staff robs the hotel of loyalty, custom and good references

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Akin Akintayo

A mathematical reflection on Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 4:25 P GMT+01

Just as the mathematicians tackled our financial system with formulae that has left our economies bereft that have now come after our pancakes with a formula for the perfect pancakes.

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Akin Akintayo

Thought Picnic: Kids having kids

Sunday, 15 February 2009 6:41 P GMT+01

Where children are having kids or people without means of support are having children - something has to give before this becomes a societal trend.

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Akin Akintayo

Just another miserable old man

Monday, 2 February 2009 11:09 P GMT+01

A child that knows no boundaries has the ability to express itself to the point of creative genius or is it a case of just bad parenting.

Akin Akintayo

Christmas is today, the feast of thieves

Saturday, 27 December 2008 7:43 P GMT+01

Christmas in the UK is no more about Christ the saviour that was born but about the cheaper, reduced, worth less or worthless stuff you can get.

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A Parship looking like a parsnip

Thursday, 11 December 2008 9:13 A GMT+01

Do dating sites have much to offer or are they just money spinners for those who pretend to offer the possibility of love?

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Akin Akintayo

Training for hours

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 3:17 P GMT+01

Just one day in the life of a commuter when everything seemed to go wrong

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Save the children - II

Friday, 14 November 2008 11:41 A GMT+01

Just this week alone the news highlights problems with the care of children in their families and how children's services have failed to pick up danger signals that resulted in the death of some.

Akin Akintayo

Credit crunch: Lazarus comes forth

Tuesday, 14 October 2008 1:37 P GMT+01

The man was dead, the ladies wept, he was entombed till the man came and had the tomb opened can called out the dead man - a cash injection of over a trillion Euros has brought the markets back to life.

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Akin Akintayo

Nigeria: Our claims to responsible government at independence 48

Wednesday, 1 October 2008 8:14 A GMT+01

At 48, there is reason to wonder if Nigeria's claims to responsible government in 1960 are still claims we can prove without dispute in 2008.

Akin Akintayo

Rough Spelling Though Thought Tough Enough

Friday, 12 September 2008 4:18 P GMT+01

It is just plain heresy for a Professor of Phonetics to suggest that the way we spell words in UK English makes students under-achievers.

Akin Akintayo

All Choirs Standing

Saturday, 2 August 2008 8:58 P GMT+01

Last Choir Standing is one of the good shows that makes reality television worth a while of watching.

Akin Akintayo

Introducing the Apes Obey! Series

Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:24 A GMT+01

Introducing the Apes Obey! series of blogs that takes a phrase our of an excerpt of Lord Lugard's writings 86 years ago and aligns it with contemporary events in Nigeria today, showing how those observations still find true today.

Akin Akintayo

The Yesterday Telegraph for breakfast

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:10 P GMT+01

I have a gotten a reply from the Daily Telegraph, they would not be ensuring the paper arrives early in Gran Canaria

Akin Akintayo

Spotting the English from afar

Friday, 2 May 2008 12:22 P GMT+01

What reputations the English have, in public, at dinner and in sport.

Akin Akintayo

Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff

Sunday, 27 April 2008 3:05 P GMT+01

The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist. Some African development issues are covered.

Akin Akintayo

Boycott British Airways

Friday, 11 April 2008 6:26 A GMT+01

British Airways has blundered agin and this time with the maltreatment of Nigerians. It is time for us to rise up against this behemoth of bumbling and give it one where it hurts - do not fly that airline if you can help it.

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Akin Akintayo

Wiping out another World's Lost Tribe

Friday, 28 March 2008 11:55 A GMT+01

A reality TV company goes searching for lost tribes and may have inadvertently inflicted upon the tribe a deadly flu that could wipe them all out. Do we have responsibilities for tempering our curiosity?

Akin Akintayo