top of the daily hassle I got with the trackball of the Blackberry
8310 that's disintegrating on me.
I typically file my posts from the portable convenient remove of my
mobile phone.
This proved however to be a daily challenge in itself.
The Blackberry 8310 I'm now using as replacement since my Samsung
Infuse was stolen in Kinshasa--woe unto that wretched Kinois who stole
my android!--is in itself turning into a daily pain in the neck.
And I want to have a word with the moronic geek that invented the
Blackberry trackball.
The thing is a bane to mobile users in Africa.
It get stuck willy-nilly. You then have to pick out the disc that
fixes the trackball in place with the plastic of a , take out the
thing, and rub it on paper. Then the thing would work erratically for
a few hours.
I learned the trick reading a Blackberry forum.
Oh man, screw RIM!
Compounding my nightmare is the fact that my Mail-to-Blogger seems to
have glitched.
It appears that this glitch happens when you publish lots of posts
that way, which triggers the CAPTCHA anti-spam function. You then have
to wait a couple of days to have the thing resolve itself.
So I hope the glitch is gone. This post is then a test.
If I still have the same problem, I'll have to go to a cybercafe or
carry my laptop to the office where I work from time to time.
Oh, I forgot: there's no way I can post from this Blackberry by going
directly to Blogger dashboard: the browser is obsolete too, even if I
use the latest version of Opera Mini.
In the meanwhile, below is the post I was attempting to post yesterday.
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It turns out it may have been too early to cheer FARDC victory in Rumangabo.
FARDC troops at Rumangabo have come under renewed attack by M23
insurgents in the morning of Thursday, July 26, Radio Okapi reports.
The battle is reported to be still ongoing.
According to the same report, FARDC troops are now pushing toward
Rutshuru-centre and have already reached Katale, about 15 km of
Rutshuru-centre.
This is a positive development as it shows that the FARDC have
regained operational offensive initiative.
(Page Address: radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/07/26/nord-kivu-les-rebelles-du-m23-attaquent-les-fardc-rumangabo/)
As the battle for control of Rumangabo is raging on, the Institut
Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) [Congolese
Institute of Widlife Conservation] posted today on the website of the
Virunga National Park a terse Official Statement that reads:
"Due to the widespread insecurity in the southern part of Virunga
National Park, all Visits to
the Nyiragongo Volcano, the Chimpanzees of Tongo and the mountain
gorillas of Mikeno will
remain closed until the security situation is evaluated as reliably safe."
(Page Address: gorillacd.org/2012/07/26/official-statement/)
Wow!
Does ICCN mean there are still people out there planning what can
only be considered as extremely suicidal tournism?
***
PHOTO: An FARDC tank crew firing canon at Rumangabo
CREDITS: gorillacd.org
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