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  • Losing a job

    Losing a job

    What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

    losing my first job at 28 years was very devastating. i never saw it coming. I was happy and contented, and i never even realized that, what i was earning could not sustain me for three months if i stopped work. Before then, i was just working without caring about anything in the world. I just enjoyed what i was doing, having good time over the weekend and partying with friends whenever i was not working.

    Losing a job helped to learn a few things:

    • That your office colleagues are not your friends. They will do anything to get your position and opportunities.
    • That salary is not something that can make you relax in life. It is madness to expect that you will live quality life with salaries.
    • That social capital is very important
    • That your partying friends are just partying friends. They may not come through when you are down
    • Financial literacy is very important
    • Be diligent in your work but have extra things that can generate income
    • Invest money to have financial freedom
    • Be careful when choosing a career because it will determine everything else about your life.
    • Listen to your heart and examine your abilities and interests carefully before chasing a career in college
    • It is stupidity to go to college to learn something that will only make you fit for employment in a certain field
    • That there are women that are only attracted to you because of your job and they will go if the job goes

    After i collected myself, i explored my environment and started an IT accessories from scratch. I learn the ways of businessmen. I learnt how to look for clients, i learnt how to handle clients and where to get supplies. I learnt how to survive and live outside employment. I also discovered how limiting and restricting employment life can be. I enjoyed abundance that comes from making your own money without waiting for a pay check.

    I also started appreciating my former boss because i realized that being an employer requires diligence and can be headache. You have to keep thinking how to generate enough revenue to run business and pay all your current expenditures like salary

    It is after loosing my job that i learnt useful technical skills like making computer hardware, software development and system administration. I shunned white color jobs and appreciated hand on skills. I realized that the real wealth is on production and not on using your salary to be a consumer.

    I discovered power of saving and investing money on capital market. That is how i came out of the narrow life of staying in closed offices and went out and started growing socially, economically and politically and spiritually and discovered how little i had learnt from school. The real learning happens outside classrooms. I appreciated much the famous slogan from my grandpa;

    “growth is born from adversity”

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  • Installing Git on windows

    Installing Git on windows

    Visit https://gitforwindows.org/ and download the latest version of Git software, then press the download button shown.

    The software package we download comes with a bunch of tools that can be very hady like Bash emulation environment where we can run all Git commands and a bunch of Unix like utilities. The downloaded package also comes with GUI that we can use to interact with Git.

    on clicking the Git-2.44.0-64-bit.exe file, the first window we get is the licence of the software as shown

    After scrolling through the licence agreement and being satisfied with tem, click next. The next window is for installation path. If you are an expert user, you may want to change the installation path, but the default path is sufficient for any user.

    The next window let us select additional components to add to our Git installation. By default, Git integrates with the window Explorer to let us run Git command line or the Git Graphical interface in the current folder.

    The software package comes with an extension for improving the support of how large files like audios or videos get stored in the version control system and it is recommendable to leave it checked.

    The installer will register the git configuration files as files that should be opened with a text editor and the .sh files that should be executed with bash.

    There is no harm on enabling all other options, but on my side, i like stability, so i have avoided the ‘check daily for Git for windows updates’. We click next.

    We get prompted for the name of the folder where we want to create all the shortcuts. Accepting the default name ‘Git ‘ is just fine so we go Next.

    Next window will require us choose the code editor. You may want to adjust the default because it may not be the editor you are most comfortable with. Mine has been adjusted to select visual studio code as the default editor.

    Other options includes:

    • sublime Text
    • visual studio code Insiders
    • Atom
    • VsCodium
    • Notepad
    • Wordpad
    • other editors

    ‘Other editor’ option means can select any other editor we want to use by entering the path to the editors executable files.

    The next window let us choose between accepting Git default branch name or let us use our own customized branch name. We leave the second option for the experts and choose the first one.

    The next window let us choose how we want to adjust the path environment.

    Choosing the first option will make Git only accessible through the embedded command line that comes with the bundle.

    The second option which is the selected one by default, allows us to execute Git from the embedded command line and from the Windows Command prompt and also from PowerShell and other softwares that will be looking for Git in path.

    The third option will add the Unix-like tools that comes with Git to the windows Command Prompt. With this option, any commands that have the same name as those in the OS will come from the bundle and not from the basic OS.

    We Choose the second option which was also selected by default and go to Next.

    The next window let us choose how we want to validate the SSL certificates used for HTTPS connections. You choose the second option if you need to interact with your company’s internal systems.

    Here we choose the default one as we will only be interacting with Github.

    The next window let us select what we want to do about the line endings. The Git software let us choose how we want to handle characters used to indicate end of the line as they are different in windows, linux and macOS.

    The first option works well when you are using your windows computer to collaborate with others using a different OS.

    The second option keeps the line endings unchanged when copying the files locally and use Unix endings for the files stored in Git. This would work well if you are using a Unix like OS or if you are only editing through Unix-Like editors on Windows.

    The third option is to do no conversion at all though it doesn’t work well if you are trying to work with people using different OS. It is only suitable if everyone is using the same OS.

    We select the first one.

    The next window let us choose the terminal emulator.

    The software bundle comes with it’s own terminal emulator that includes a bunch of nice features like nice Unicode support and a long history of command we can scroll. We choose the first one which is selected by default.

    The next window let us choose what happens when we pull a file from the Github repository.

    The rest of the windows we should use the selected option by default and move on.

    Go next

    press Next

    Press the install button to install the software

    After installation is complete, you can click finish to launch the git.

    Clicking launch button should launch the MINGW64 command terminal as show, where you can type git commands.

    You may need to check on release notes that is launched together with the commandline window, otherwise you have successfully installed Git in your windows computer

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  • Getting started with Git

    Getting started with Git

    who is Git?

    Git is a version control system that was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds who was also the brainchild behind the Linux kernel. It was originally created to help manage the task of developing the linux kernel because alot of geographically distributed programmers were being involved in developing the linux system.

    Git is an open source and one of the most popular version control system with millions of projects under if’s care.

    One advantage of Git is that it is a distributed system meaning that every person contributing to a project can maintain the copy of the project they send to a common reservoir in their own development machine.

    Collaborators can share their work and be able to see what others are doing in the project anytime they need to do so. To enhance collaboration in a project, a common directory, usually refered to as the repository is setup on a server so as to act as a common point from which all participants can interact.

    Git can work as a standalone program, as a server or as a client such that you can use it offline and then you can send (push) the files you have created to the online directory once you are connected.

    You can use Git as a server on a machine where you want to host your repository and also as a client to access the repository from another machine or on the same machine.

    Git uses http,ssh or it’s own special protocols to communicate with Git servers over the network.

    Git is suitable for small projects that need one or few developers and also suitable for large project that brings together thousands of contributors. It is useful in tracking private work on personal projects but even more important, it is used to share work with others by hosting a code on public servers like Github,Gitlab and others.

    You can find more about git on git-scm.com which is the official website for Git. Git-SCM stands for Git Source Control management which is the same as Version Control System(VCS).

    One reason Git is soo popular is that it is has a multiplatform support and so it will fit in windows, macOS and linux with ease.

    Installing Git

    Git could already be installed in your computer. To check if it is already there, issue the following command:

    git --version

    To install git, you can use package management systems like:

    For windows installation, you will simply download an executable file and follow prompts. Windows installation comes with a preloaded with a MinGw64 that enables us to operate on windows with the same command and tools used on Linux.

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  • Version Control

    Version Control

    A version control is the practice of tracking and managing changes to software code. In Information Technology, we manage information across a lot of different files . The software developed must be maintained and this involves adding some new codes, deleting some, commenting some lines of code and modifying others. Other times we develop new version of the software that we expect to replace the old one.

    When changing software files, it is very important to keep detailed historical information for changes made in the file because anything can go wrong when you change a software files.

    Few weeks after you make changes, you may not have an idea what changed and so it is important to have a mechanism where you and your team can track what was modified and when incase there is need for troubleshooting.

    Version control provides a documentation trail that will let you and your team know why the infrastructure is the way it is and provides you with mechanism for undoing changes where necessary. Version Control is very hardy in software development as it helps reduce greatly the errors and bugs that maybe introduced when we change a software file.

    To avoid headaches involved in broken codes due to changes done, you can use a version control system to easily roll back your code to a version that was working before the change that caused the breakdown were done.

    Version control helps us revert our system to a particular state that was working at a particular moment.

    It is always safer to go back to a software version that had been working correctly before the change was made so as you can fix problems that occurs in changes without problems of a broken non-working systems when you are trying to solve issues. This gives you time to carefully examine the code instead of making so many quick fixes just to keep the system running.

    Version controls are crucial in maintaining healthy codebase for IT resources and for enabling many people collaborate on the same coding projects smoothly.

    Examples of version control systems includes:

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  • Fate and destiny

    Fate and destiny

    Do you believe in fate/destiny?

    What is a destiny

    According to oxford dictionary,destiny is what happens to somebody or what will happen to them in future especially things that they cannot change or avoid . The dictionary also describes destiny as the power believed to control events.

    When people talk about destiny, they are talking about the desired state of life. Like a point in their life where they are happy, successful, having everything they want. Mostly when people says that they are towards their destiny, it means they are chasing their dreams.

    Our dreams is mainly our desires, not necessarily that the gods or super deity desired that we be in a particular place which we are now struggling to get into, mostly it is our lust, desires and longings that drives us, and it is based on what we have seen from other people.

    Destiny is a creation of man, God could not have placed man on earth and then set him into an imaginary journey that will take a big percentage of their life to reach.

    Destiny of a nation is the state of a nation that the citizen desires at a particular moments.

    what is Fate

    According to dictionary, fate is the things especially bad things that will happen or have happened to somebody. It also describes it as the power that is believed to control everything that happens and cannot be stopped or changed.

    When bad things happens to people, we say it is their fate

    Fate and destiny is rubbish we have accepted in our mind

    The reason i punch holes on the concept of destiny and fate is because they are mostly creation of people in their mind. First, There does not exists a place in life where one should feel totally contented, fulfilled, successful and without need for anything as that is the point people refers as destiny

    They are imaginations created by individuals, nation or a group of people relative to other people. Destiny as we use it daily is a comparison term, it is what we desire in relation to what we see. We talk about destiny because other people has shown us that there are better things out there than what we have right now.

    Am disagreeing with this concept because most of what happens to people is a matter of choice and decisions. It is based on choices we are making today that determines tomorrow. It is not that men has no control over what happens to them, Men builds and destroys. We are what we are now because of choices of our parents, grand parents or whoever that was there before us or choices we make ourselves. We are product of people, God did His job of giving us body, blood,brain and soul, then he gave us family, society and country. It is through socialization that we are what we are. We would be different people if we were born in a different society.

    It is our society that shapes our religion, philosophies, believes, our thoughts, technology and how we do things. And all this things are the one that determines how our lives gonna be. How we are directing our affairs will determine how our children will do their things and how their lives will be.

    “A place is as good as people once lived there.“-unkown

    We have choices

    It is not like we are powerless before some powers that control events. We should only learn laws of God. Our creator is the only one that has supreme power to dictate what happens to us. However, our creator does not dictate to us anything because He gives us choices to make.

    Let us refer to the Holy writings as a supporting statement:

    Deuteronomy 30:15
    See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

    Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

    From the above statements that have been uttered by God the creator of man and universe,it is obvious men have choices. If the supreme and sovereign God does not dictate anything to man, what else can be soo powerful such that it is able to dictate what happens to man without their control.

    It is men that makes decisions to go to war and wound others and make other people’s lives miserable. It is people that enslave others . It is people that do crime and are sent to jail as a consequence, by other people Offcourse. It is people that oppresses other people and exploits them. If children do not succeed, it has direct connection with choices made by man and woman that gave birth to them. We make choices and face their consequences, we and other people that are within the sphere of our influences.

    How things should be

    The man was supposed to keep the world peaceful, clean beautiful and habitable. God left a beautiful and peaceful earth to man, and man was supposed to maintain it.

    Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

    Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    The earth was perfect and the reason men keep pursuing imaginary destiny is because they are feeling guilt of the earth they have destroyed, and so they keep desiring it was like how God gave it to them. It is because their spirit saw what God gave them, and so they are always dissatisfied with what they are saying. However, it would not have been that difficult to make their life be full of joy and contentment, had they not given their souls to evil and lust of their flesh.

    Man was not supposed to be in pursuit of a destiny, getting a fate in the process. He was supposed to enjoy every moment of his life by keeping the commandments of his God and creating beautiful things like God.

    Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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  • Jobs and careers

    Jobs and careers

    Do you enjoy your job?

    Offcourse I enjoy what I do. But job and career are very different things. You could be enjoying daily routines or what you do but you don’t like your career. Career is what you were trained to do and job is what you wakes up to do daily mostly to earn a living.

    Most often our jobs or careers does not match what is our innate interest and abilities and that is when we don’t enjoy our jobs. Otherwise if your job rhymes with your career and synchronizes with your abilities and natural inclinations, that is your personality and background and believes, then it becomes a heaven on earth. The way I enjoy IT and teaching. I enjoy solving people’s laptop issues and installing softwares on their computers. I value the trust my clients have for me that i can procure IT hardwares for them. Many would rather let me buy computer for them than do it themselves. It is fulfilling when people can trust you with issues of money and i like their feedbacks showing their satisfaction that they are enjoying what i bought for them, many months ago.

    When in class, I enjoy the curiosity of students as they wait for my next statement. I like the inspirations i have given them that makes them want to do something worthwhile with their lives.

    illustrations of work team

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  • Density of some substances

    Density of some substances

    The table below shows density of some common substances.

    Please note that density of water being 1.0gcm-3 can be used as a relative density to compare densities of other substances. For example , density of gold is 19.3 times that of water.

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  • My beautiful youth

    Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

    Youth age is the best time of one’s life time. It is where you feel like you are spoiled with options. You care very little about what is happening and all you do is follow your heart and do what is making you happy. The best part of youth age is teenage where you don’t have to look for money to pay bills, some other people are doing it for you. Great moments where I travelled wherever I want and enjoy whatever little I have without caring about tomorrow or unpaid bills. Adult life is slavery where you have to work soo hard just to pay bills that keep recurring, like moving in a circle, spending a lot of time and energy but very little progress if any.

    Adulthood can be total wastage of life because all your energy today may not count tomorrow. If you paid your bills very well yesterday, they will not care if you did, if you r unable to do it today. They will disconnect your power, gas and even throw you out of your rented house. It is like you have no option.

    In youth age you did not care who don’t like you, if your girlfriend disliked you, you knew soon or later, you get even a better one, now you worry soo much when your wife stop talking to you, and you have to work hard to keep a single relationship, if you talk with other women, you will be accused of cheating. Adulthood is a prison, I want to go back to my youth!

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  • Nonverbal Communication

    Nonverbal Communication

    This is the kind of communication where messages are passed without word being spoken or being written. However, nonverbal communication has a great impact on the receivers interpretation of any message.

    In summary

    Nonverbal communications occurs in various forms that includes:

    • Body movements
    • Paralanguage
    • personal presentation
    • Proxemics
    • sign languages

    Body movements

    It is also known as the body language. Our body can send communication to other people without us uttering as a single word. kinesics is the field of study that deals with the ways people use their bodies to communicate or supplement their verbal communications. body movements may includes:

    • posture
    • gestures
    • facial expressions
    • eye contacts
    Posture

    posture refers to how your body is positioned. Your body position can send important messages to people and communicate a great deal about you. For example leaning forward in a conversation shows you r greatly interested and you are giving attention to what is being spoken. Leaning backward could mean disinterest or boredom. if you are standing and you reach a wall or a post for support can signify you are tired and no energy for talking.

    Gesture

    This includes movement of hands, fingers, arms or winking of eyes. For example when talking with your arms open wide can signify honesty and openness while talking when fingers interlocked can be interpreted as nervousness.

    Facial Expressions

    This includes arrangement of facial muscles to send a message. Our facial muscles are flexible and so can be rearranged to portray a certain image for communication purposes. We can stretch or relax our mouth, cheeks, eyes,eyelids, forehead, nose or chin to communicate a known symbol. For instance a folded face can show displeasure or a stretched mouth showing disapproval. Our face is the first point of contact when we meet people and hence likely to be the most observed part of our body. Our facial expressions can be read to decode and interpret our emotional feelings, telling whether we are happy, excited, sad, neutral etc.

    eye contacts

    eye contacts can be used to communicate different messages, for example direct eye contacts can communicate interests, intimacy or confident. diverted or downcast eyes may show intimidation or submission. People can avoid eye contacts with you if they are afraid or feel guilty about something they have done against you.

    Para-language

    This is how we speak like how is our pitch,speed of talking, how loud are we and quality of our voice. When we are frightened,anxious or excited, the pitch our voice can rise but it is lower when we sound more powerful or authoritative.

    Volume

    Refers to relative softness or loudness of our voice. Some people talks with loud voice and others in low tones. There are people that feels intimidated by people talking too loudly and others find it hand to concentrate on a speech given in low tones. Volume can be determined by the communication environment. Like in noisy places, even people that talks with low voices could be speaking with high voice because they are trying to raise their voice above the voices in the environment while in quite place, you feel to be in more control and hence you lower your voice.

    Rate

    Rate in speech could be used to mean how many words are given per unit time. People who thinks very fast tends to talk very fast but people who process information slowly will find it difficult following a fast talker.

    Voice quality

    some people has better and pleasant voices than others. A voice could be harsh, calm, strident, soothing etc.

    personal presentation

    How we groom ourselves can determine how we will be perceived by our audience especially when meeting them for the first time. If we appear dressed nicely, it can show we are resourceful, respectable, reliable and organized. If we dress shabbily, it can show we takes things casually or we lack seriousness with our things.

    Grooming habits communicates a great deal about who we are and how we want to be perceived. People can decode different messages based on our hair length, makeups, cologne and perfumes, length of our nails and how we have have painted them, how shiny is our shoes etc

    Touching

    social psychologists argues that touching is the most intimate form of nonverbal communication. Touching means how we use our hands towards the other person

    Proxemics

    It is the study of how we use space. It is attributed to the work of Edward hall in his book, “The Hidden dimension”. Edward argues that, taking a case of two people in a conversation, our personal space can be broken into four zones that includes:

    • Intimate distance(0-18 inches
    • personal distance(18 inches-12 feet)
    • social distance(4 feet – 12 feet)
    • public distance(12 feet – 25 feet)
    Intimate distance

    It is a distance reserved for intimate activities including love making, intimate or confidential conversations, hugging, kissing and snuggling.

    Only our most intimate relationships are permitted in this distance from us and if an invited person invades this space,we usually moves away slightly to maintain the distance. When a stranger invades this distance, we feel threatened and we develop flight or fighting instincts causing us to increase distance between us and them or try to push them away when we are not able to move.

    Personal distance

    It is the distance reserved for conversations with family, friends and close acquaintances. It is a distance that we allow people we feel comfortable with.

    Social distance

    It is the distance we are most comfortable when interacting with people in a way that is not intimate. It is the distance we maintain when interacting with people on a day to day basis for example when transacting business, having meetings, eating in hotels, sitting in bank halls, when talking to police etc.

    public distance

    it is the distance used for public ceremonies, speeches, large group meetings and class lectures. If the distance is greater than 25 feet, communication is characterized with shouting and exaggerated nonverbal gestures. The distance our ears can comfortably receive messages passing through air is quite limited and is subject to distortion from noise and other physical hindrance like diversion and absorption by physical objects.

    sign language

    It involves the use of hands to make symbolic gestures which have specific meanings. Sign language is a skill and a field of study taught in colleges in order to help the people with hearing impairments communicate with the world

    Functions of non-verbal communication
    • Message reinforcement or supplementation of verbal messages
    • negation of verbal messages
    • substitution of verbal messages (when talking is not possible or not allowed)
    • message accentuation (putting emphasis)
    • message regulation (controlling a conversation)

    Importance of nonverbal communication

    • have almost an instant effect because of quicker grasp by the receiver. Speed in conveyance and response makes non-verbal communications very useful in situations like traffic control by police
    • aids verbal communication. By use of nonverbal symbols, a large amount of complex data can be presented in a compact form so that large message can be communicated with just few non-verbal cues.
    • Response to visual symbols and images is usually more powerful than spoken language.
    • It is the best method to communicate with illiterate people or people that don’t understand your language. For example illiterate drivers can understand road signs and directives with non-verbal traffic signals.
    • Helps the hearing impaired communicate, learn and be able to work.
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  • I want to be my woman

    I want to be my woman

    If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

    I think if i had some powers, i could change myself to be my girlfriend. This is beacuse i would like to start see things in her perspective. I would like to see why she fails to see things in my point of view. I would also like to know what is her exact feelings about me.

    I would to understand what makes her soo upset, what are her exact expectations on me, and how much i have met those expectations. I would examine if she always mean what she says to me. I would like to understand whether she enjoys giving me trouble or what kind her action. I will examine if she is always attracted to other men and what kind of men that attracts her so that i can understand who are my competitors.

    As a man, i can understand science, technology, philosophy, history, religion and all knowledge; but i guess understanding the woman is the greatest challenge for a man. Even the successful and prosperous men of the world had problems with their wives and girlfriends, I will understand what is in a woman. What makes man feel soo bad and miserable when rejected by a girlfriend. I will examine why the money, fame, and all the good things of life like big cars,real estates, precious stones and whatever a man desires are not able to replace the place of woman in the heart of a man.

    I will examine why girls has influenced a lot of decisions by men and probably understand woman in totally. Her emotions, her thoughts, her perspective etc.

    woman photo

    Questions i need answers

    • What kinds woman decisions
    • Her thought patterns
    • The role of feelings versus logic in her life
    • The role of society in her decisions
    • her insecurity and fears
    • what are her deep feelings and thoughts

    But one of the most important thing i will understand and write my findings about is why are women easily influenced by their friends and they change their mind soo easily with entrance of new information. All this i will find and write a book to help men

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