Engineers are one of the best people to have around or even sit around. Why? engineers offer solutions, and do not have empty words, despite been simple. Dressed simply in jeans and t-shirts, engineers will solve your problems without lots of bureaucracy , like management.
Well, I discovered this recently when I was sitted in a roomful of communication engineers at the just concluded Africa Interconnection and Peering Forum. In a rare opportunity given to me to voice some opinion, they handed me a microphone, but when I tried speaking, the sound system responded with a high pitch whistle. Several attempts resulted in the same high pitched whistle. The engineers told me to move a few metres and the whistles dissapeared.
Demons! That would be the response of a priest, if he chose not to blame the devil for the same happening in a church, and which it more often than not happens. Well, the priests will be saddened to learn the devil is usually busy elsewhere, probably attending bendover sessions (don't ask me what these are, ask your pal who has earned enough frequent club-bing points) somewhere in the world.
Positive Feedback, is the answer to this natural phenomenon as the engineers will tell you. To those who were busy day dreaming of perfect dates in your physics lesson, positive feedback occurs when the microphone is held close to a speaker. The speaker has an inaudible high pitch which the microphone captures, sends to the amplifier, gets amplified and send back to the speaker higher than it was. This continues and the resultant high pitch occurs as long as the microphone is held at this point. To sort this out, you have to maintain a minimum distance from offending speakers.
For you to know but not necessarily remember, positive feedback is also responsible for clotting of blood, collapse of a bridge and nuclear explosions.
Have a day filled with positive feedback.
Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling.
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Choosing your Creditors wisely
Over this week, I have learned a few lessons about lending and borrowing , of money, given that there is a lot to be lend and borrowed. Let me first of all make sure that I had not taken a break from blogging due to matters related to borrowing and lending.
Apparently, apart from carefully choosing who to lend, you should also make wise decisions as to who to borrow from. First of all, if you do not intend to return the money in a timely manner, or in this case never return it , you must devise a way of ensuring that your lender doesn't contact you in the period the money is overdue. Let us look at two case scenarios.
Situation #1, these 2 associates of mine. Associate 1 asks associate 2 to lend him some cash over a short period since his salary arrives a few days later than associates 1 salary's. Associate 1 agrees and associate 2 gets the money.
In a few days, associate 2 gets paid, and luckily looses his phone. How is this lucky, you ask? Well, associate 2 takes this opportunity to re[place his phone and his phone number. he then makes sure that he doesn't turn up at work for the next 4 days. Associate 1 cannot track associate 2 via phone nor at his workplace, and is left with a raw deal.
Situation #2, some guy on Twitter, Kenya, decided that strangers make the best people to borrow from, especially if you met them through twitter. All you need is work their charm on them, get the money and remain silent when the money is needed back, after all, they are strangers.
Well, the guy has discovered that Twitter is the wrong place to default loans. The loan issuer has kept reminding the guy that he owes her. Now all the guys twitter followers, and the public at large know that the guy had defaulted a loan, and the guy has been reminded this every hour, lest he forgets. Remember Twitter is not Facebook, where you can block your creditors from posting in your profile.
The aim of the story is that you should delete your Twitter profile if you plan to default loans to your "Tweeps."
Apparently, apart from carefully choosing who to lend, you should also make wise decisions as to who to borrow from. First of all, if you do not intend to return the money in a timely manner, or in this case never return it , you must devise a way of ensuring that your lender doesn't contact you in the period the money is overdue. Let us look at two case scenarios.
Situation #1, these 2 associates of mine. Associate 1 asks associate 2 to lend him some cash over a short period since his salary arrives a few days later than associates 1 salary's. Associate 1 agrees and associate 2 gets the money.
In a few days, associate 2 gets paid, and luckily looses his phone. How is this lucky, you ask? Well, associate 2 takes this opportunity to re[place his phone and his phone number. he then makes sure that he doesn't turn up at work for the next 4 days. Associate 1 cannot track associate 2 via phone nor at his workplace, and is left with a raw deal.
Situation #2, some guy on Twitter, Kenya, decided that strangers make the best people to borrow from, especially if you met them through twitter. All you need is work their charm on them, get the money and remain silent when the money is needed back, after all, they are strangers.
Well, the guy has discovered that Twitter is the wrong place to default loans. The loan issuer has kept reminding the guy that he owes her. Now all the guys twitter followers, and the public at large know that the guy had defaulted a loan, and the guy has been reminded this every hour, lest he forgets. Remember Twitter is not Facebook, where you can block your creditors from posting in your profile.
The aim of the story is that you should delete your Twitter profile if you plan to default loans to your "Tweeps."
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