If you’ve been reading about the struggles that I’ve been sharing here recently on this blog, let me tell you this is nothing new.

I’ve been in in constant $h1t$ nearly all my life, often too personal for any one to comprehend, and often through no fault of mine.

The below photo brings to mind three years of enduring pleasure in pain.

From January 1994 to December 1996, I had my secondary education at Fijai Secondary School in Secondi (NOT Takoradi, FWIW!) in the Western Region of Ghana. While at school, the entire year group was sent home and later made to sign a bond of “good behaviour”, for whatever crime I never got myself to understand. And our final exam, the (then) Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE), was cancelled nationwide, and we had to re-write the whole damn thing again.

But I digress. I just wanted to share this great photo of my friends, which I found today… taken over a decade ago back at Fijai Secondary School. From back to front, left to right: Fritz Williams, Moses Bentil, William Ayitevi, Emmanuel Insaidoo, Cyril Mettle, Gershon Worwu, [psss... can't remember this guy's name], Tsemeng, Maranatha Acquaye, and Manfred Amissah.

Where am I? Of course I’m not in the photo, but looking at this squad, I couldn’t be too far from the scene. Either I shot the photo, or I stood aside and opted to be out of the photo (the latter being more like it).

Guys… where are you all? George misses you all, dearly.

If you see an angel or a group of angels flying too close to ground, you can be sure they’re after me. Yes, it’s me against the angels yet again. This is not how I planned this life to be at all.

Can’t say anything now, but… suffice it to say I’m now fully convinced that whenever I make a conscious decision to move on in this little life of mine, all the angels in heaven (or wherever they are!) line up against me. But why? Just to test my pulses?

Anyone’s got an electronic copy of CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters: Letters From A Senior To A Junior Devil to pass along? Me think I need this book.

[photo credits: Ana Jine @ Flickr]

If you visited this website more than once last week, you would have met a completely different website on each visit.

Life, indeed, has been twisting me in all directions over the past two years — and this website, my principal medium of expression, has loyally been following along in each new direction I turn.

I’d like to thank all of you my regular and long time readers and friends who have stood by me all through it all. Here are a couple of updates:

For some really long term plans (long term = few weeks down the line!)… I’ve moved the blog (which will henceforth be called the journal ) away from the homepage into a sub-directory — http://GeorgeAppiah.com/journal/. But no sweat … everything is tightly integrated, and there are links on both the top horizontal menu and on the left sidebar to take you there.

I’ve also drastically reduced the “blogging load” on me. I’ve sold off most of the blogs I’ve been authoring for some sweet little bucks, and I’ve given away others as gifts. Over the past 3 years, I’ve authored and sold (or abandoned) blogs spanning such vast topics as renewable energy, nude art, wifi, lucid dreaming, web development, country music, digital photography, computer history, fairy tales, oh my!

Anyway, I’m currently focused on two primary websites, which I’m going to turn into a real business to support my intended nomadic life. Here they are:

1. http://www.Ghana-Travel-Guide.com: I don’t need to explain what this is about. Do I?
2. http://www.GeorgeAppiah.com: In addition to this blog (which is going to get a lot more attention from this point on), I’m building lots of practical, how-to tech guides to help you wonderful folks out there. More about that later.

If you visit these two websites, you’ll observe they both spot the same basic layout and design. That’s by choice. I’m in the process of registering an LLC in Delaware, US. Why am I registering a business in US and not in Ghana where I live? Let’s reserve that for a series of posts later on

And it seems I still love hacking cellular networks, and I’m likely going to take a second Masters degree in wireless communication engineering this autumn at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Yes… tuition is completely free, but sorry… deadline for admission into Swedish public universities was the first of February.

More updates later. Love you all.

Hello you wonderful folks. A 419 scammer is using my identity for his scam operations to dupe unsuspecting people. This unscrupulous son-of-a-bitch is sending out scam emails in which he identifies himself as:

• George Appiah, a Ghanaian diplomat with millions of US$ stuck somewhere (huh!)
• who’s website is GeorgeAppiah.com
• with US telephone numbers 224-333-1700 and 646-862-3498

Sure, all that info are mine (except the diplomat thing and the millions, of course ) but no, I’m not a fraudster. Someone is simply using my identity for his 419 scam operations. And funny enough, I have personally received one of these email proposals from this “George Appiah”. A few folks have also forwarded to me emails they’ve received with same identity and similar millions of dollars proposals. And today yesterday I had a call from a gentleman in the United States — who has also got such a message.

How do I handle this? I don’t know. If you have any suggestions, kindly contact me. But please note that I am a Ghanaian living in Ghana so the Department of Homeland Stupidity Security (or whatever they call it) and all those US consumer protection institutions ares outside my reach.

In the meantime if you receive any such email, first know that this is definitely NOT from me, even if the sender’s address seem to be coming from my domain georgeappiah.com. Email headers can easily be faked. And then kindly forward a copy to me.

Thank you.

Why the silence since I announced my 30-day exercise plan four days ago? I promised to do daily updates but I’ve not had the chance to post even a single update yet!

Since last Thursday, my Internet connection has been all but dead. My ISP seem to have some major DNS issues across their entire network. I’ve also not had power most of this time. And my long time “apartment mate” Cyril packed to strike out on his own last Sunday… so I had to help him with the packing and all that.

I’ll do a batch post of my progress on the exercise plan shortly.

You must have also seen some new changes here on this website, especially the new top menu links — and it shouldn’t be too difficult to guess where my life is heading now. A comment on that is also coming shortly.