Blogging, my experience

The first time I heard about blogging was when I joined an internet club back in the University of Nigeria, powered by the Afrihub institute. This was immediately after I finished my UMITT training with them.

A tutor with them who doubles as the leader of the club had during one of the meetings talked about it and had promised to teach us how to open ours. But there was a condition to it; he will only do it when in his judgment, there was a full house. So, for months we waited, for him to decide without any green light. All reminders to that effect only brought excuses of not having a full house.

What to do? Well I went to the Afrihub café in my school and typed the question tag “blog” and several pages were listed from which I opened one which fortunately, was for opening a blog. Pronto! I quickly opened one and told my girl friend who also happens to be a member of the club about my discovery.

Problem or rather challenge; How to go back to the blog with my address. Whenever I want to visit my blog, I always encounter discouraging challenges. It is a laugh today but I never was able to sign into my blog at one try. It is the browser doesn’t know what I am asking for; that is, the page doesn’t exist or my address isn’t complete. I never got it right once; never.

The challenge was such that even when I succeed in getting the page, it will be blank, devoid of all my postings. I could only get my post by sign into the blog. This bothers me because I had seen other people’s. But I took the challenge headlong because the person that brought the blog thing to my knowledge had decided to use it as leverage to get something from some select few.

But for Thomas Edison inspiring light bulb stories, I would have given up on it. Eddy, your fabulous story, believe me till date, I still find it difficult to believe that you actually tried a thousand times did the magic for me and it has continued to do so for me in instances when I have had to try new and unfamiliar ideas.


Yours truly, gave up for sometime to finish his project. The fruit of that experience is what you are viewing today. Is there any idea you are about to give up on? Just let it be for sometime and then return later to it with new strategies. It would be madness to do the same thing and expect the out come to be different.

I once tried to build a free site only to learn that I was to supply the web pages while they do the hosting. I didn’t wait to have the pages to do what I wanted to do which was and is still to sell idea to the public to solve their problems. I simply turned to blog. I have a CD on how to develop web pages which I bought while still in Enugu, I hope to learn the thing someday. I have come to realize that nothing is difficult if you put your mind to doing it. The first time I tried to type with a system I gave up and returned it to the owner. This was some months back.


Now you wont believe it if you see me type. I never believed that that ANYBODY could think and type at the same time. I was use to writing before typing but after listening to Pastor Otabil talked about long hand and short hand and using the computer and typing directly, I tried it and though initially I felt awkward, today, I will rather wait for the PHCN to restore power than write a sentence on a paper. That is life. New learning throws out old practice. I try to improve with every passing day; one life to live you knows.


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Gods abundant blessing be upon you as you do this in Jesus or Mohammed’s name. Amen or …….