Wednesday, October 31, 2012

2 Days to Be Counted..VOTE FOR WENNOVATION


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Monday, October 22, 2012

Pie Gates and Flog Lance

Remember Pie Gates?
It's this little video-game from the nineties where you click to smack Bill Gates in the face with a pie - splat!  Proven stress reliever... 
Screenshot of the classic Pie Bill Gates game from kuenstner.de
Then he started to give his money away through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Nowadays, everybody loves Bill.
It is important to be nice, not just rich, I think.  

Meanwhile, some dude named Lance Armstrong has built a stellar career as a doping cyclist.  Now that he's been exposed, he has to give up all his Tour de France titles.
I propose a video-game to vent our anger at cheating assholes like him.  Call it Flog Lance


Meanwhile, here is a modern version of pie gates, lol, in case you've moved on from Windows 95.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Privatizing electric power generating companies

The preferred bidders for the five state power plants are : 
Transnational Corp. for the 947- megawatt Ughelli power station.
China Machinery Engineering Corp. (leading a group of companies) for the Sapele plant.
Amperion Power Distribution Ltd. for the Geregu plant.
Mainstream Energy Solutions Ltd. the Kainji hydro plant.
North-South Power Co. Ltd. for the Shiroro hydro power plant.
Kainji Dam

Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, is selling majority stakes in power plants.
The country will also let private investors buy as much as 70 percent of 11 distribution companies spun out of the former state-owned utility NEPA/PHCN.

Read More at Bloomberg - Nigeria names winning bidders for five state power plants.
More photographs of Kainji hydroelectric power site at skyscrapercity.

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