I was recently invited to write a guest post about my experience as a member of the 199th chapter of ISACA Chaper recently launched in Ibadan, Nigeria. You can read about my post here ...

For many of us in the developing countries, access to world class education is something you just dream about, because the cost is way beyond the average individual.  The Internet has helped to at least provide much more accessible knowledge, but the current wave of free online courses offered by world class faculty is really a boon to...

I recently discovered a fantastic website with great video tutorials of secondary school (K12) maths. And I wonder, that despite my many years of surfing and browsing and searching on the Internet, I still discover new stuffs on the web regularly. According to Khanacademy "With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance,...

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Some few months back, a librarian in a University here in Nigeria had asked me whether there is a stop gap library package she could use to keep records of her library's holdings pending the time her management will approve the implementation of Koha. The idea is to have entered the holdings as they are acquired rather than...

I usually deploy Koha for Library Management System and DSpace for Digital Repositories. The big question usually is how to search both systems at once (federated search) from a single interface. I have read about different solutions, including Blacklight, dbwiz and Vufind Recently, I took a look at Vufind, and installed it on Debian Squeeze. To install Vufind,...

I currently use a Compaq Laptop, Presario CQ50. I've had this laptop for about 2 years and 4 months now. I am on the third battery now on this laptop. The earlier 2 batteries were so bad that they don’t provide backup for 10 minutes before the laptop goes off without warning. (This to me is actually bad...