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Dear Family Members, Friends and Visitors,
HELLO.
We have a new update newsletter for you again. After doing a good revision of the
pages in the archive with regards to the validation of the Links, we
made substantial new additions to the main site as listed here under:
OUR PHOTO GALLERY
Our Photo Gallery
continues to grow. We now have
six collections of thirty-five pictures.
The latest collection is #5 which is a continuation of "A peep into
the family albums," Some family members said they were surprised to
find their old pictures in the collections and asked for copies as they
have lost their own prints. Needless to say that we have a box
full of these old pictures and will show-off some of them here.
OUR UNDER 18s FORUM
Moyin Oloruntoba, the editor of the
Under
18s Forum
has
relocated form Lesotho to South Africa with her parents. We all, in the
family, wish Moyin and her parents and sisters a happy sojourn in South Africa.
WEB RINGS
WebRings are good for attracting
visitors to
our site but we sometimes get
funny and
naughty comments like this from a guy who said "It
is unfortunate that you put "Nigerian" in the title of your site as, in
these days of spam and scams, Nigerian conjures up a wicked picture of
con artists, etc. You might want to use the word "African" rather in
your site title. I know you're proud of your heritage, BUT, wrong
perception can harm just about anything. Thanks for listening."
We replied as follows:
Thanks ...
"The world knows too much of Nigerian scammers or "419" and very little of the other good sides of my country. One of the aims of our website is to correct some of that perception."
COMPUTING FOR FUN
Computing for Fun
section has a new article which you should read. It is titled “Enhance
your email
(or Better emailing)”. The article said in part:
To have an email
account is not enough. How do you use your email? Is it just for the
casual communications with friends, family members and a few contacts
here and there? Have you thought about the power of this facility and
its great potentials as a social, business, and marketing tool? Here are
some hints on how to enhance the power of your email usefully and
profitably for personal and business communications.
ARTS AND CULTURE
In the Arts and Culture section we have a story titled “Festac
77 Mask”. Festac means 'Festival of Arts and Culture'. It was
mainly a Black Africa event, and only two Festacs have been held so far.
The first one in
Senegal was in 1966 and the second and biggest in Nigeria
was held
in 1977.
The mask that symbolised the Nigerian event was recently donated to
UNESCO by the Nigerian President. This story reveals the secret of the
mask.
SEARCH THE WEB
Our search
engines are very useful in our day-to-day work on the Internet and they
could be of help to you too. For example, shortly after the launching of
the space craft DISCOVERY, we searched the Internet effectively for
details of the launch, the problems encountered, and the excitement of
the return to earth - using all the four search engines -
AskJeeves, Yahoo Search,
Google
and
Answers.com.
Yahoo and Google are excellent
sources of news, while Ask Jeeves and Answer.com are good online
Encyclopaedia,
Thesaurus, Dictionary of Definitions and more. We love them all.
TIME
AND MONEY
Elizabeth and I can never remember
the time in the different time zones around the world. To avoid waking
people up from their sleep, we use an Internet World Wide Service before ringing any of
our friends and family members living abroad. Here is how it works.
To call Nairobi (Kenya) for example,
click this URL:
http://www.onyoursite.com/wwc/ , select Kenya and click "Get Time".
Kenya will be shown as precisely two (2) hours ahead of Nigeria; South Africa is one (1) hour ahead,
and US Eastern is five (5) hours behind us in the summer.
Similarly, those
of you living abroad and ourselves too, often want to know what some
foreign currencies are worth in Naira. Here is a utility we found on the
Internet and sure you'll like it.
To convert your currency to any of the many currencies of different countries, click this URL: http://www.onyoursite.com/cxc/ and follow the directions on the
screen. We like this
utility best because it converts foreign currencies into Nigerian Naira (NGN).
For example, if you enter $8,000 (US dollar) for conversion to Naira you get instantly,
NGN1054,480.6400. (one million, fifty four thousand four hundred and
eighty naira and sixty four kobo). Wow, with just 8,000 US dollar you can become a Naira
millionaire!
There are many similar
utilities on the Internet, but these ones are very accurate and
dependable. Bookmark the URLs and go there any time you like or
visit our website to use them.
LETTERS FROM USA 14
(Delayed. Coming up soon!)
Visitors are familiar with the
series "Letters from USA" which are sent in periodically by
Bunmi
Oloruntoba who is still working on his PhD at Regent University,
Virginia Beach. Early this month, Yinka Oloruntoba attended a medical
conference in the US and took time to visit Bunmi on his campus. It was
a great reunion as you can read from this edition of "Letters from USA."
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