From the very beginning we knew our little baby was NOT going to be a household name. Rather we wanted her to be the unknown giant upon whose shoulders many Smart Ghanaians would stand and lead our nation and the rest of the continent towards a safe, just, and prosperous future. And while things have been moving quite uneasily slow for us, we’re moving forward nonetheless.

A major initiative currently underway is a center to be run in conjunction with the Institute of Mathematical sciences, an institution founded and headed by our very own Prof. Allottey.

Yesterday, accompanied by my two partners in crime - Christopher Bennett and Remy Edmundson - I went to inspect the status of work on a facility at McCarthy Hill, Accra, which is likely going to be our new home. This facility currently houses the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and is being expanded to temporarily accommodate the yet-to-be-launched Allottey Andam University College.

We couldn’t have access to indoor facilities, but here are some photos we took from the compound. Enjoy.

Just looking spying around…

On top of the world ….

… with Christopher Bennett

Another shot with Christopher Bennett up the roof

Christopher Bennett and Remy Edmundson

Starting the journey back to ground zero…

Almost down now…

This beast will give us Internet access… for the time being

Man… George Appiah loves to squat!

It’s been a good day… we’re ready to return home now!

Recently while waiting for my power to be restored, I grabbed my camera, walked round the house, and took some shots. My current residence is at “Dome Pillar 2″, a new, unplanned, but rapidly developing suburb of Accra. Here are some of those shots:

This is my first time of using the “Embed Slideshow” feature in Picasa Web Albums. While the free 1GB (and counting) space is great, at this time, the overall feature-set is no close that of others in this space, like Flickr. Or maybe it’s by design … I sure like it’s simplicity.

By design or not, one feature that would help is a visual indication of the total number of [hotos in the slideshow, as well as the position of the current current photo (something like 1/20). This helps the user easily determine whether he/she can invest the time to see all the photos.