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The art of getting a good story - My headaches.

From my early teenage years, I have been suffering from migraine headaches. I can recall it as far back as my second year of secondary school. Now, I know it was related to stress and the things I was going through then. At that time, the headaches were so severe and frequent that I would be in so much pain that I would be admitted to the hospital on some occasions. I remember my parents sleeping outside my ward and my brothers and cousins following me to the hospital. But not surprisingly, because of the frequency of the headaches, they decided to do further investigations, but from the limited tests they did, for one reason or another, they could never pick up that it was not malaria, and I was suffering from migraine headaches. Throughout the time I was in secondary school, the symptomatology of the headaches was such that they would start with an aura, which was like flashing in my eyes. Then I would have localised pounding headaches around my eyes and so on and so forth. There wa...
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The very British Coup

Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent To blow up the King and the Parliament Three score barrels of powder below Poor old England to overthrow By God's providence, he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring Holler boys, holler boys God save the King! The year is 1605, and Guy Fawkes (Guido Fawkes) was caught with a large amount of gunpowder below the House of Parliament. The plan was to blow up the Parliament with the Protestant King inside during the opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 5 November 1605, and restore a new Catholic leader. The background of this was religion; after the Reformation, King Henry VIII took complete control of the church from Rome between 1532 and 1540. He destroyed all the shrines to saints, labelling them as idolatry, and he closed all the monasteries and transf...
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Chess the beautiful game

    I have just finished watching an exciting television series that came out last year. It is on Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime. It is about the game known as "the battle of the minds" between the greatest Chess champion,  Garry Kasparov  and the IBM supercomputer,  Deep Blue , in 1997. However, much has been said and written about this "battle of the minds". However, this particular television series examines it from a different perspective, focusing more on the emotional and psychological aspects, as well as its impact on the main characters. I relate to this series because I have worked as a psychiatrist and software developer. Some characters are fictionalised to produce a better story, as the main narrative focuses on the psychological and emotional effects that Deep Blue had, especially on Kasparov. It begins with a disclaimer stating that some aspects of what you might be watching may be inaccurate, but at least it is "based" on actual even...
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Tracing the American Black culture

This is a fascinating book that presents a different perspective on the generally accepted narrative. Thomas Sowell appears to have done his homework, and the extent of his work supports this conclusion. He has spoken on several topics and presents a conservative viewpoint. Thomas Sowell said in the preface of the book that "the purpose of this book is to expose some of the more blatant misconceptions poisoning race relations in our time." He believes that too much has been assumed and too little has been scrutinised. He is something that is not so common in the United States of America, a Black academic Conservative, as most academicians are Liberal, and a majority of the Black population in the US are Democrats.    Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and author, born on 30th June 1930, in North Carolina. Raised in Harlem, he served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War before earning degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chi...
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The Machines are here

  I do not want to be seen as a prophet of doom. Nor do I see myself as a modern-day Isaiah, Hosea, Jeremiah or Daniel who constantly warned Israel about their behaviour, their worshipping of other false gods, and trying to be like other surrounding tribes until they were conquered by Assyria, Babylon, or Rome. But the issue of AI is evident to me, and I must see it in the face, as I am working in that area. I use it regularly to do my work, and it makes my job more effective and easier. A simple example, I had a meeting with my boss recently, and we talked about technical and other topics. An AI was taking minutes of our more than one-hour-long meeting. In the minutes, the key points we discussed were neatly laid out, including the main points and actions to be taken. The non-work-related stuff was summarised as "discussed weekend plans and shared updates about families, while also discussing the similar nature of political parties and their tendency not to fulfil their promises...
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Further explaination of the universe

  Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, has always tried to explain complex astrophysical phenomena in simple language that everyone can understand. The subtitle of this book is "a further explanation of a science classic made more accessible". To his surprise, his book A Brief History of Time was a bestseller and was on the top ten list for 237 weeks and sold one copy for every 750 people on Earth. The book was a remarkable success for a modern physics book. Many people were asking for a sequel to the book. A Brief History of Time explained how Newtonian Astrophysics described the laws that control planets and stars' movement. This book takes into consideration the most recent theoretical and observational results. How light speed is finite and constant at 299,792,458 m/s. Since the speed of light is constant, to explain the different observations for different observers, time must be relative. Producing the twin paradox, i.e., time slows d...
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