Towards the end of last year, just as the world geared up to celebrate Christmas, a niece deftly asked me if I could consider buying her an iPhone. At £269 on top of a £35 per month contract it was not a very cheap present!
I responded, in a similarly deft fashion that I could not [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:41 on April 30th, 2008 in Technology
2 Comments »Oma, my alleged friend of Asian descent, called me yesterday ostensibly to ask me for help on restoring her computer DVD drive.
I couldn’t give her the solution she needed immediately as I was otherwise busy and she seemed in a hurry for the answer. On telling her this she said it was okay. Then she [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:04 on April 29th, 2008 in Relationships
2 Comments »I now have quite a few of my family and friends reading this blog on a regular basis and they guide me on some of the topics and issues I should cover.
This is obviously a good situation to be in but it also brings a few ‘challenges’ that have to be considered with each character [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:24 on April 28th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »The account of my current contract is handled by an Englishman with a roughneck East End accent, with a jovial but no-nonsense persona. Let’s call him Yar!
Now, Yar fought tooth and nail to secure me a very lucrative position that came with a quite decent pay cheque each month. It wasn’t much of a fight [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:00 on April 27th, 2008 in Business
2 Comments »Last week while I was one of 15 people at a colleague’s leaving lunch at a swanky Thai restaurant in Berkshire, the colleague next to me stated that racism in Britain was no longer an issue for most people.
In his opinion because there were so many more Black people visible in the media doing positive [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:11 on April 26th, 2008 in Society
No Comments »My above floor neighbour stopped me in the corridor last night. Actually I didn’t see him: I only heard his loud voice calling out to me as I walked towards him.
I didn’t recognise who it was at first until he said: “Heard you still playing your music earlier…” Quickly, I anticipated trouble because I had [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:54:46 on April 25th, 2008 in Lifestyle
2 Comments »I wish some of the nifty, technological tools and applications available for making computer users’ lives stress free, were available as part of this daily life!
For instance, Windowws XP Professional’s System Restore feature allows you to revert your computer back to a date when it was working fine and trouble free! The great thing is [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:03 on April 24th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »On the morning of April 1, 2008 I watched and listened as a group of my co-workers whooped it up at the news that Robert Mugabe had ‘lost’ the election in Zimbabwe. The only thing is the results, to this very day, has not even been released yet!
They were celebrating Mugabe’s demise in spectacular fashion, [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:29:59 on April 23rd, 2008 in Society
No Comments »Are you a pimp who doesn’t really know it? Do you thrive only on the backs of others and do you pride yourself on how great you are at exploiting the good will and nature of others? That, essentially, is what a pimp is!
I could expand by comparing your average pimp to a vampire or [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 10:06:52 on April 22nd, 2008 in Society
No Comments »Who do you turn to in a crisis? Who do you share your secrets with and is comfortable to rely on when the chips are down? Who, exactly, is your friend and who can you trust?
Some people think I am completely off the wall but as time progress I seem to care increasingly less about [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:01 on April 21st, 2008 in Society
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