View from the Edge

Its been too long since I wrote something for Geeks Are Sexy. I’ve been in a fairly non-geek period of my life recently, focusing on my stand-up comedy side rather than my techie side. In that spirit, I thought I might combine the two sides a bit with some (hopefully humourous) recollections of my life […]

We all have incidents in our lives, I think, that scare us a little as we look back on them, cases where we came far closer than we’d like to very bad things happening, even closer than we realized at the time. Its remarkable how funny these incidents can seem from hindsight …

‘ve taken a few days off from View from the Edge to spend some personal time, as well as to work on a few other projects, so this is my first post for a few days. Its going to be a bit of a mish-mash post, I think, covering a few things …

Hundreds killed in Nigerian pipeline explosion - World - theage.com.au

Having spent 5 years living and working in Lagos, this is an unfortunately common story. The people of Lagos, in general, are wealthy in comparison to the rest of the count…

I’m a geek in a number of ways, but maps have always been one of my secret loves. Programs like Google Earth are very addictive for someone like me … I sometimes jokingly (?) refer to it as ‘geo-porn.’ One of the things I like to do with i…

This was taken on my first trip outside of Lagos after arriving. I was very green, and though I’d gone out a bit in Lagos, I was chomping at the bit to get out of the city and see some of the rest of Nigeria. When the family of a business contact, the […]

Blame the natives | Salon Books
In this review of Robert Calderisi’s recent book “The Trouble with Africa” Pascal Zachary does an excellent job of describing some of the serious problems Africa faces. In the interest of full disclosure, I should say I haven’t read Calderisi’s book, but having spent 5 years living and working in […]

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This is a shot of the original Fiki Bar … this version was demolished in 96 or 97 and rebuilt, and while I always had structural questions about Fiki's, I must admit to a certain nostalgia for the original straw and wood shack on stilts.
On the left corner, you can see a […]

Just listening to a press conference on CBC Newsworld with leaders from CAIR-CAN … the Canadian Council on American Islamic Affairs, and they are calling on provincial and Federal governments to hold a summit on extremism in their community, and to help address those extremists in their midst's.  This attitude highlights what I see as […]

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Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
This is the pregnant goat. I was in Lagos, worling on this street for 5 years, and this goat was pregnant essentially the entire time. I never really did work out who owned her, or where all the baby goats went … not too sure I want to delve too deeply […]