Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Its the end of day 1 of Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa and I must say it is what I expected it to be. Apparently there are almost 2000 delegates here this year which is an impressive improvement over the 1600 delegates last year and the most delegates at any ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
I got this in a document from Mark and managed to find a Flash version in Alan Becker's gallery. It should appear below, if not, click here. Alan Becker is definitely talented with way too much time on his hands. [tags]humour[/tags]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
So what's up with the search engines today? The local site MyBroadband has an article up about Yahoo! redirecting to the Chinese search engine Baidu and suggested that Yahoo has been hacked. I don't normally use Yahoo! so I checked it out and after typing in a search term I ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I don't normally post humour to blog but I just couldn't resist sharing this little comic strip that I received on e-mail with everyone. [tags]humour[/tags]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
For those not in the know, Jaiku was recently acquired by Google and suddenly gained popularity. One of the reasons why I believe Jaiku is better than other similar services such as Twitter is because they have a decent mobile phone client. The current build of Jaiku Mobile, 0.80 beta, ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Its a conspiracy I tell you. I'm sure that the mobile phone networks are in some way in on it. What am I talking about, well bear with me a moment while I explain. I was reading this post from my good friend Tim about how he sat ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
A few months ago I happened to be browsing a free copy of Unwired magazine that I was given at a 27 Dinner when I noticed a review of a new online shopping site in South Africa called nivo.co.za. The review was very complimentary about the site so I decided ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
With the recent surge in AJAX enabled web sites I have to wonder if web user interfaces are still as intuitive as they were when we simply had to fill in a form and press the Save or Submit button. Nowadays user interfaces, like the one pictures below from Community ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Last night a bunch of the Gauteng SA Developer .NET chapter members got together for a dinner meet and greet social with the visiting Western Cape chapter lead Angela Gerber. We decided to try out Cubaña which is a Havana lounge and Latino caffe located in the recently opened Cedar ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Well if you are in Jozi for the weekend of the 13th of October you can join other crazy adrenalin junkies and either abseil or rap jump down the side of the Ponte City building in Johannesburg. Apparently its the tallest building in the southern hemisphere measuring in at ...
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