Preserve your eyes while using a blackberry/mobile phone

It's nice to be connected to the internet via Blackberry, but the devices are ugly in my opinion.  Most cell phones are flat and ugly.  And there's the pesky ergonomics to deal with.

Here are some tips I learned:

• When reading on the internet, check the settings in your browser for "Column view" which may reformat the page so you can read in large font and without scrolling side to side. 
• When reading from a pdf or image file, the print is often small and/or blurry.  Try the options for "View text" and it may display the text in a nice column of text (again, no side-to-side)

Some easy things to try also:

• In your internet settings, change the default font size to something comfortable for you.
• Download a second browser (like Opera) for your device.  It may have better functionality than your native browser.  At any rate, it's nice to have two browsers, then you can use both simultaneously as I always do.  

Save your poor wrist and fingers:

• Leave that scroll-button and use the SPACE key to go down one page at a time.You'd be surprised how many people scroll line-by-line instead of skipping down page-by-page. 
• On standard laptop and desktop screens, don't put your mouse over the scroll button and click on it a thousand times; jump by clicking the space between scroll bar and scroll button. 

What to do about eye-strain?
The backlight on my phone screen is far too powerful.  To improve the situation, I usually to keep some other light on in the room when I'm working, or hold the phone/screen at an angle (not easy). 
Ideally, I could place a screen / filter over the original screen?
What do you think?
Is there such a filter for sale, or should I just tape the thing with cellotape/cellophane???

Business Ideas

According to the UNDP, here are NINE specific investment options for business people and entrepreneurs in Africa. (Source, and details: How We Made it in Africa)
What do you think?
1. Fruit juice concentrate processing facility in Nigeria
2. Cassava value chain investment
3. Cultivation of soya bean and other oil seed plants
4. Sorghum production
5. Intensive production technologies for fresh vegetables
6. Production of milk powder in west Africa
7. Aquaculture
8. Equipment leasing
9. Market centre infrastructure investment

Produce. Produce. Produce!

How shall we share the national cake?  
Chop I chop?
I before others?
Resource control?
x% derivation?
Federal character?

Wole Soyinka says everybody should start baking, so-to-speak; and shut up about "sovereign national conferences" already.  (Source):
"Each regional grouping should, by its policies, declare an uncompromising developmental autonomy – I repeat, Autonomy - leaving the centre only with its competence provenance – foreign policy, national security and inter-state affairs...  
Let each regional grouping and its member states single-mindedly project and pursue their strategies for the enhancement of the quality of life and the dignity of their peoples, quarry into their resources to extract the material required for their very existence, material that they can exchange among one another based on their spatial developmental advantages..."