KAZEY JOURNAL

Disclaimer: This Posting does not refer to anybody nor does it describe any body I know of. It was just a mere opinion on what I see and try to explain. Please bear in mind that opinions are just what they are, they do not necessitate facts and thus they should be taken with a pinch of salt if they are not in accordance with your beliefs.

Tapping back to history from the gold rush in 1848 California, to the Dotcom craze during the 90s. The influx of prospectors, adventurers or even dreamers streaming from every nuke and cranny,was really something that had a mark in history but then again here we are in the year 2005, people still Never learn.

Today we see the ever increasing rise of different websites ranging from social networks, to on-line shopping malls in Third world countries especially from the African region. The main motivation behind all this is the websites they see when they browse the net, and they quickly assume that this websites are really making huge amount of profits. They go and build a similar website based on the concept.The pathetic issue here is that this websites are located in the Developed part of world and the market is for the developed market !!. And really most of this imitators do not really know what a simple word like E-commerce means. Or even to go into the extreme of understanding the marketing concepts, and then mastering it, and developing ever changing marketing techniques to suit it. Well so to say its just easy, get a website on-line, register a domain, and start selling, or start running forums and maybe probably the regular income would just stream in.

How many even know that a canonical “dot-com” company’s business model relies on network effects to justify losing money to build market share, or even mind share, through giving their product away in the hope that they could eventually charge for it. (It’s worth noting that Amazon.com and other successful survivors of the era (*.com crash) proved this strategy sound in the long term, for a small few.) Many raised cash through public offerings on the stock exchanges, with stock often soaring to dizzying heights and making the initial controllers of the company wildly rich on paper.

Well from what I know Amazon the no1 when it comes to on-line shopping in terms of price and recognition is still owing banks huge amounts of money. Now the question is do they even make profit? From what I can tell No. So first of all, from what I understand about on-line businesses is that you have to know the market, then study it, then you can then develop ever changing ideas from that based on market trends, and besides you have to also get a source for investment to get a professional set-up to ensure that you have a grip on the market.

Now how many African on-line portals, are really up to that standard? I can really count them with my finger tips, maybe in Nigeria (shopforless.com) and a few others . Yet you still see young lads building up portals, hosting it, and wasting a lot of money hoping that they would earn a regular income through that (Well we the hosters get to earn from that :p). The future I see is a future of regret and withdrawal. But then again who knows?. I just hope that if its the later they don’t burn badly.

Well i have being lazy due to probably, because of the tormenting exam and maybe even life, my normal boring life that is.

Well i have been thinking of learning Java from scratch and becoming an expert like Dabar but then for a start I had to actually browse his blog, to get tips on things to download etc.

Besides that he has also personally really beign very helpful in terms of advising me on the approach such as my part of the dedication and also the recommendation of the best book to buy. He recommended Java� How to Program 6/E (latest edition),published by Deitel. When i checked both of my favourite local Bookstores via their websites MPH and KINOKUNIYA . They didntt have it. I even called theMPH and gave them the ISBN and they told me they dont have it when the lady checked the system. So I decided to search other bookstores like Times etc, still without any postitive result.

I then called Kinokuniya and the lady at the reception said they dont have it in stock, but they could order it for me . The funny thing is they actually have 2 editions . One the International edition costing arround RM79 and the other what they call a normal edition costing also arround RM359 or so. See the huge difference??. The international edition does not come with the Cds. So why not just download it from the site, and the rest from different respective sites. hehehe
Besides its a lot of money. So i called her back and told her i wanted the cheap one :p

So well my exams ends on the 16th of this month. So starting which Java ensures something for the holidays. No vacation for me, it would be just coding and coding and coding :D. And besides i downloaded w.blogger from the website, and its not working thats a desktop application software for blogging easily from your desktop environment. Anywayz i would try to re-download and reinstall later and see.Currently i just had my lunch and i am sleepy. :yawns:

There are around 2.6 million people starving in Africa, and yet the average Brit is throwing away food (*statistic from The World Food Programme (WFP) ) . Around one third of food grown for human consumption in the UK ends up in the rubbish bin, new figures reveal.

So why are people starving in Africa, and people throwing away food into bins in the Uk? well they said their reason was the following and I quote that

“We are very greedy when we go and shop. Our eyes are bigger than stomachs in homes and in restaurants. ” and also that the idea that the food is cheap makes us throw it away. what a waste !!.

This world is really very complex. Some have too much and they throw it away, whilst others dont even have the means to even have just a basic simple meal a day. Its really pathetic.