In Personal Pockets

I found several situations which should not be and could rightly called corruption and treated like that.

You go to a police station, you find every police has a prisoner of people he caught on duty, in his pocket. When prisoners come in, they can't be helped or dealt with by other people but him.

The standard procedure should be when he gets prisoners in, he should take a statement of each individual and give his report so that when someone else comes on duty should be able to follow up on each person so that those who have no crime can be realised as soon as possible. Those who have commuted a crime, they should have a hearing as soon as possible, and convicted (or vindicated if innocent) and given the appropriate penalty. Why it might be true that one may have committed a crime, the punishment may be too small than the policeman could personally judge, or too grave as well. There was a situation at one time more than half or if not all of the people in a police holding cell, were had statements taken, and it seemed all were really innocent. One guy had just been realised and was found by a certain policeman and put back in prison for looking dirty and unkempt. One young boy about 11 or 12 was left for more than one week for picking five hundred kwacha during a wedding ceremony. The judgement he was given, he would come out of prison when the new couple breaks up. What kind of judgement is that? If that boy does pray to God for help does God break up what he has joined together to release a young boy who does not know what to do and has been given too grave a punishment? What if the boy gets abused in prison and contracts hiv or indeed gets tb infection or some other infection. Shall God punish the couple? Better the wrongly judging policemen.

This other guy sold a cellphone to somebody and was not paid, the police arrested the guy who was not paid leaving the guy who took the cellphone walk free. Isn't that crazy? What kind of justice is that?

Another guy had a cheating wife who falsely reported him to the police to have committed a crime so that he could go on with the other guy. And his case was not heard or contested.

All these are some of the examples of cases that were in police holding cell some for several weeks some not having contacted an relatives who might even have been thought missing. Probably they even had been reported to the same police but because the policemen had not taken statements, who could know the were right within the police while the same police were busy looking every corner of the town, even accused the guardians of not taking care of their children well. I said stupid! No more.

Does the respondent become the boss not the complainant? Unless this attitude changes would real justice be even before going to courts. The one who brings a complaint should be the boss whether poor or rich whether with a big title or not. That will prevent from the one who wasn't paid from being put in the cell other than the one who failed.

Are really the police the law? No they are not. Nor are the lawyers, the courts or judges. The law is in pile of books. The policemen are not, and have never been the law, nor should ever be. Otherwise they will self-righteously put prisoners in their pockets and give them unreasonable punishments.

Another office that puts goodies in their pockets which should be available to everyone: Malawi Housing Corporation. Should an MHC agent charge extra on the houses he overlooks if at all it is his responsibility? He already has a prescribed salary deemed to be enough for his position. No agent should keep houses in his pockets.

There is a clause as well in Malawi Housing Corporation tenancy agreement which restricts under-letting. It is not proper for houses to exchange tenants outside the MHC office. Otherwise that is the reason why those on the waiting list don't get houses. Let everyone honor the under letting clause which say requires MHC attention if the house is changing tenants. Let MHC give the houses on first come first serve basis. Otherwise, where do we find houses?

My Thesis

Why must I put it here? It answers some questions of what is me today.
There was a time I fought something but it was too big for me. The casualty from there took me long to recover and most of the knowledge I got is what helped me overcome. The story of how I overcame should have been my thesis but I had to put something academic for my degree work to be appreciated.

I have always wanted to do cryptography other than coding theory as I felt cryptography was better relevant to my computer science carrier than coding theory. As it has direct application in terms information security.

Where do I start is always a difficult question. For I might have to from the beginning or jump in the middle or at the end and refer to all issues at random. I hope I will manage what I need to say.

Of Life, Values and Goodies in tragedy

Kamuzu's health care policy was among the 4 Major Development Goals(MDGs)Malawi had. Good health, Good shelter, Good food, and Good clothing. His slogan was "riches are in the soil" to encourage farming. He built corporations to do most commercial farming for exporting. He built corporations to build commercial buildings that still make our cities pride. These can't be built by individuals and still be an attraction to the city. He built a corporation to build good houses for employees and individual had options to purchase some. The houses are still around many and still standing strong and beautiful over the recent built. Most of the corporations have been sold off to people who have torn them apart.

Probably the foreigners when they came used to say these Africans why should they have a better life than us? Filled with jealous at our way of life they broke so much. I hate to say even the health sector.

Should we not have free medication if we can afford it? Of course, Americans pay so much for their health which kills them in the end. It's not wise to make money on somebody's life. You are going to watch Bill Gates die before you just because he has lost documentation to indicate he is the monies. How he ends up in a situation like that? No computer can predict. For chance happens to all whether rich or poor, the Preacher says. So I guess when the rich who could afford to leave America for what they thought an honorable looked at us thought we need to pay for medication so we can be rich like them. We should keep money in banks to feel rich. Mmmh, riches are still in the soil the bank is the krawl and the granary. How good it feels to sit on your verandah sipping a four o'clock chombe tea which your wife brews just right, milk and everything including stork margarine and blue ribbon bread on a white tray.

So your child comes and says, dad I need a new shoe. And Mtheto and Willie are around at the time. I say with pride, why don't you and Willie get one of the kids in the krawl for sell. Buy yourself your volleyball kit and studio gear you asked for the other day. Yes, the one with black and white sparkles. The little clever one. Yea, that one. Buy her some new Bata shoes as well.

Isn't that a life!

When I see the health disease the Americans have, how fast it spreads to our lands, I really need to say a word.

Obama having set foot on this continent and learned from his relatives the values and priorities we have. The American way looks ugly. Not in the bling, but in the quality of life.

My quality is filled with happiness with family joys and no lack. The American life sounds so much loneliness and alot of worries about bills. Medical bills, telephone bills, health bills, cable bills, gas bills, life insurance, this insurance, that insurance, credit bills, so on and so forth which have just accumulated with too much marketing telemarketing frauds unsettling peoples comforts and joys to buy that which they don't need into their homes and enough fear to ensure they pay monthly insurance premium for fear it might break when it just rots in a dusty corner. Why? The price was high so it should last as long as possible. Mmmh.

If Kamuzu said we don't need television, he said just right! We don't need American TV. We don't even live in Iraq to know what worries Americans in Iraq. We can best use it to relearn our cultural values. Yea, by American standards most of our cultures are evil. I have seen a vast vacuum of the goodies only our culture can give. I have seen in so many different ways God filling the vacuums of our culture. I have seen many stumble into something our culture gives and help build their lives. The problem is its not formalized. We have men of God who have known our culture and known the word of God. They can screen through our cultural activities, with the word of God. They have done this for many years, I would love they also touched on the issues of marriage.

Though we have learned different values of sexual purity there is still a gap to bridge us into marriage. We get to the point of readiness but don't know what to do. The result is again temptation unwanted pregnancies abortions and with a lot of temptation even become unfaithful. Why? We don't know how to get married. It seems parents expect us to already know because they have always known but we don't. Maybe they expect us to just stumble into it. Yeah, we will but still with fear whether we have done the right thing. Of this fear, it is easier for those who have not been taught the Christian purity values though many still have been taught faithfulness and abstainance.

We need to be bridged into marriage. It is the safest place for grown up youth to be in. We end up having problems in modern marriages, due to the neglect of a simple value. Respect for the husband. A little disrespect really comes in hard for the husband. With all the gender equality stuff, its like a weapon wedged against the husbands. You girls you should know we love you and protect you delicately. We see how vulnurable you are naturally that's what makes us want us to shield you from anything harmful (don't feel over-protected for whatever we see drives us to do so).

When you look at gender violence and think empowering women is the solution, sometimes you make them really disrespect us and that pain and provocation is too much. It takes great patience not to react violently. This is what breaks many marriages.

The same disrespect in the homes, now drives the old men to seek for even younger girls who should really be their children's wives. They become a very welcome prey having been starved by their wives (female power they call it) and their wives gone to bridal showers advising the same young brides who might have served their husbands when they were at anothers bridal shower or kitchen party or something, when they should have been spending this time with their husbands.

Sunday afternoons are too long to be spent alone at home. This time is to spent with family after a hard working week and restful Saturday.

Why bridal showers which involve only women? Why not something that can involve the husbands and the young men? Don't young men need to get advice also? Bachelors party? If done together, it might be a way the husbands to spend time together with their wives get to know each other better as they express themselves in an environment that allows to talk about marriage issues.

Then marriages would be better arguments less with the wife and the husband freely expressing themselves, issues of disrespect forgotten for there is mutual love coming from really understanding each other.

Their young boys and girls would then feel at peace to live in their homes instead of friends homes which have similar problems and end up in places where girls meet starving husbands and the boys are too pure for girls and the thought too delightful, and the result is abortions.

In the meanwhile women are just out feeding on female power and advising their husbands muses. What about the boys? Really struggling with temptation to resist these cute young virgins when they should be in marriage with the fiancee, they should have spent quality time with this Sunday afternoon but is out with this cash machine who also gives her more goodies than her pure boy. The boys end up yielding to this same temptation when the marriage which should have been a home, ends up a thorny nest with disrespect from their wives and the afternoon is too long.

What should we do with this tragedy?

Men, call you boys mobile. Take them to the place of temptation let them know why their girls are disrespectful and absent. It will equip your boys to wade the environment better and keep the girls home and maybe turn the wives heart back to their marriages and save the day.

Writing Code.

Typists spell check.
Programmers compile.

Linguists study literature. Shakespeare.
Programmers study code.
_why?

It's worth studying.

A good code carries a signature.
It talks the skill, the "attitude",
The influence and finally,
The dexterity of the fingers
that wrote it.

JQuery. the JR question.
_Why all the complicated big stuff that do little?
Do more with less code.

Ext. Yep, I'm smart.
Let me do my stuff.
It's blue shirt smart with a gift.
Do you have a question?
It's my own thing.

So goes mile. Walking in strides.
Little big steps that walk the world.
Keep walking. You'll get there.

Watch. My own little k.
It's pronounced kappa.
Solves 7 thesis
In 7 days.

It is too small to do more.
They say.
I wanna break a rec.

Watch 3x30 man.days
Specified in 3 weeks.
Done in 7 days.
_why do more?
7 hours.
That's a legacy.
Do you want more?

My foot. Miles gone.
Walking strides.
Around the world in one day.
Watching the lucky stuff.
Making my own.
Quietly brilliant.
With dotted eyes, o i's
A stroke of genius.

Yep! It's been here all along.
Where have you been?

IPv6: Reloaded

After looking at the advocacy and reasons given even the incompatibility factor, I smell something fishy with this IPv6 addressing system implementation.

The push does not seem to come from an engineer. And engineer would take seriously the issue of compatibility especially a computer engineer.

It is a core part of his training for an engineer to design a change over plan that minimises costs and ensures smooth transition from an old system.

It is a grave engineering mistake to disregard compatibility. So many things would break resulting in great losses, both financial and with high possibility, life.

However, politicians can demand such a push and in their political mind would prefer mass media to do drive the change over than practicality of the solution.

It raises questions like how much control can one have over an IPv6 network compared to IPv4? What would the reason for jumping IPv5 when it seems most problems IPv6 is solving can be solved by the combination of IPv4 and IPv5?

We might fall into a trap we understand not.

I thought about the internet. Why do we need it? Communication? True. With who? I found that my average communication I do on the internet is still with my fellow malawians. But the tools I communicate with are not in Malawi but outside. Yes, they are free tools but the fact that they are free, is the reason I use them. The fact that I use them, makes me need to connect outside Malawi which at the end of the day, at national level, it is a great expense.

The allocation of addresses Malawi has for the number of ISPs available (those are who need public up addresses) I feel should be enough. We have less than 100 ISPs. How many ip addresses is that? If we might need more than 500 public ip addresses, the somewhere somehow is a big abuse of ip addresses. Something MACRA might want to look at. A proper design of the domain name system would enable us to reduce dependence on the outside network and therefore reduce the cost of connectivity. Most of us are forced to use the freely available tools because few good are provided and in a restrictive manner which with reduced dependence on outside internet would be available cheaper. There have been talks of a national internet exchange provider which allows for local exchange of local content. We have had a national infrastructure(MTL) which against all economic reasons was privatized. It is good that MACRA is creating a fibre network but much has been invested in creating the previous infrastructure and for a long time making it very possible MTL was for ill reasons privatized and at very small value than the infrastructure available.

It seems even companies like Airtel don't value infrastructure much than they do a customer base. They can overhaul the whole network(it is easy anyway you just buy new access points and connect them to talk to each other over already built transmitters). How much would an access point cost? Not worth the worry I think.

So what is the cost of building a transmitter for some radius? What is the cost maintaining it? What would be the cost of using it? Take away the cost of connecting outside Malawi, the cost communication is unbelievably low. Put in place the tools for communication locally, dependence for external tools is little. Now having reduced the dependence of external tools, the need for external communication is further reduced and by a great percentage I think. When external communication outlets are reduced, the cost of maintaining such shared on over the whole population of Malawi. This by a great percentage would bring the cost of communication. That is what fuels economic development.

I wish government, would allow me even fund me to implement such for the population of Malawi. Not single handedly but I can get a work force to achieve this. We will buy same tools as other networks and maybe cheaper and better, but we will manage them better and reduce the cost greatly.

My contacts are down below in one of the posts.