Secure website, lazy website developers
November 8, 2011 – 08:00My experience with a South African online retailer and their customer service apathy towards security concerns and password implementations.
Kinect for Windows announced
October 31, 2011 – 13:58Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect accessory is coming to the Windows platform officially.
Sandton retailers that irk me
August 1, 2010 – 23:48What’s the story with retailers that think the consumer must be honoured to be their customer? This weekend it really got to me, both times at Sandton City. On Saturday night I tried to take two of my ex-pat friends to my favourite Thai restaurant, namely Wang Thai above the Nelson Mandela Square. We got [...]
Madiba Day Clean Up
July 19, 2010 – 20:03On Sunday a bunch of us got together to celebrate Madiba Day at Zoo Lake as part of the 67 Minutes for Mandela campaign: Mr Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place. We’re asking you for 67 minutes." Nelson Mandela turns 91 on 18 July, and the call has gone out [...]
How I fixed my iPhone 3GS
July 19, 2010 – 14:48When I purchased my iPhone 3GS from Vodacom the tethering functionality wasn’t available and Vodacom couldn’t tell me when or even if it would be supported. So I followed some guidance on the interwebs and installed custom carrier profiles to try and fix it. It worked for a few days and then upon changing my [...]
New Xbox 360 hardware announced
June 14, 2010 – 22:39A new console SKU and Project Natal gets named.
Xbox LIVE launches in South Africa Summer 2010
June 14, 2010 – 22:20Xbox LIVE is coming to South Africa in summer 2010… and this time its official.
Photos from the Johannesburg 27dinner
November 27, 2009 – 12:28The final Johannesburg 27dinner for 2009 was a huge success. As per normal I snapped a few candid photos of the event.
Making date and time sense from the SQL Server Agent job history table
November 26, 2009 – 21:17A bit of Transact-SQL code to help make sense of the sysjobhistory table date and time values.
Silverlight 4 beta and my disappointment with the WebBrowser control
November 20, 2009 – 00:16Microsoft has released Silverlight 4 beta at PDC this week. I eagerly fired it up and tried out the new WebBrowser control hoping to find a polished HTML rendering control.
