Kevin Hart Show in London Town

Through one of the Meetup group which am part of, was lucky enough to find out that kevin Hart's "Let Me Explain" film was going to be shown at the cinema, one and only show, after which he was going to come on stage for a Q&A session.

From what I could gather, he used the show to address some personal questions/rumours that was flying round at the time. Came out straight about his recent divorce, jokingly, but there was something serious about it. Good point he made was that he is very bad at lying. When he was caught cheating on the mother of his kids, he could have just sat down with her and for them to work things out, but one lie to another other meant the relationship was doomed for failure. In one of the youTube clips about the show, she stated there was nothing bitter about it, and they remain good friends.

Saw the show at the Cineworld 02 arena, in the Superscreen room. The screening was actually sold out. Show was slated to commence at 7:30pm, but think it actually only kicked off around 8:45pm, but again that's African time for you.

F**k yourself/that, N***a!, and go kill yourself were just some of the intense words used during the film. I sense some people would have taken offence to it, but at the same time I expect the offended people to already know what there were coming to see.

During the Q&A session, the way he answered questions and conducted himself shows that he is humble, gracious as a person (pointed out by one of the friend I went with) and damn right funny guy. In my view (and on rare occasions), he did not actually give a sensible answer to some questions.
A lot of the questions came in from the viewers via twitter #LetMeExplainUK and some came from the room.

Holi Festival Video

Happen to stumble upon this video today, and just could not resist keeping for future reference. Amazing work done by the filming crew

Lagos Population Growth Forecast

An article by The Economist titled "Huddled Masses" caught my attention on Google+, and here is a record of the comment I left on it. Couple of people did made the statement that solution is birth control. 

I for one think the population of Lagos state, Nigeria, will be 'already' more than that 11.7m forecast[but guess being called forecast means it's never expected to be accurate]. And good point by one of the contributors who highlighted that the pop growth in Lagos is [mostly] down to people coming to look for better chance of survival in a country that has little for it's people.


One of the major reason for creating Abuja (Capital of the Nigeria) was to ease the population in Lagos, but guess the hustling and bustling is something people are not willing to easily give up to migrate to Abuja. 


Those that think birth control is the solution to all problems, should please understand the main reason for the population growth(/concentration) before suggesting such ideas [though in some cases, they might be correct, but not all situation are the same]. Nationwide, Nigeria is a very big country, that I personally don't see as having population growth problem. We will no doubt require good visionaries with good urban planning knowledge. 


Once Nigeria stop having 'rulers' and start having 'leaders', those with vision, then we will have a better chance of growing. It will no doubt requiring creating industries in other states, with good transportation link into Lagos (The Financial centre), here am referring to something like Holland (Amsterdam to be specific). This remains a fantasy, but hopefully one day it will become a reality, one day. 


The various diversities (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Chinese, British, Poor, Rich, crazy, community spirits, etc) are what makes Lagos a unique place. 

Letter from Tim Cook

On Friday 28th September 2012, Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) released a letter to users to apologise for the screw up they made with regards to replacing Google maps(which worked) with Apple own map(which was not tested properly). 


According to this article by Jay Yarow, Apple tried to negotiate with Google to get turn-by-turn navigation, but Google wouldn't give up that data without some concessions from Apple. Google wanted more Google branding in the maps as well as the inclusion of Lattitude, Google's Foursquare-esque social network that tracks people if they opt-in. On that note, Apple decided to go create it's own mapping solution, which turned up not to be up to scratch. 



In a nutshell, the main reason for this, from Google perspective was to retain some form of exclusivity for Android users, but from Apple perspectives, it's about giving the iOS users more option, and reason not to move to the Android platform. 


The letter from T.Cook to the customers is narrated below - 

To our  customers,


At  Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better.

We launched Maps initially with the first version of iOS. As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps. In order to do this, we had to create a new version of Maps from the ground up.

There are already more than 100 million iOS devices using the new Apple Maps, with more and more joining us every day. In just over a week, iOS users with the new Maps have already searched for nearly half a billion locations. The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback we have received from you.

While we’re improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app.

Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard.

Tim Cook
Apple’s CEO

Source: http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/