Unfortunately I missed the FLOSS conference in Pretoria, but there’ve already been two writeups about it that I’m aware of. A Tectonic article, Wiki-ing into Africa, and a Wikimedia conference report. The conference sounded great, particularly the discussions around distributing Wikipedia, legal terminology and Wiktionary (to assist the courts in dealing with translating the 11… Continue reading Wikimedia and the FLOSS conference in Pretoria
Month: April 2005
Toshiba Tectra A2 A laptops going cheap
I’ve been using the company laptop until now, and have been investigating buying my own for when I leave. As always I’ve left it a bit late, as I only have 2 working days left. Finally, after much prevaricating, I decided on the Toshiba Tecra A2-A, which dropped R2000 in price last month. However, I… Continue reading Toshiba Tectra A2 A laptops going cheap
Big bad Independent Group, and the organisation versus the individual
I’ve recently come across a blog called The Size Issue, subtitled Blog dedicated to Supersized Media and Independent Media’s Issue with Size. As an employee of Independent Media with 2 working days left to go, now is a unique opportunity for me to respond 🙂 . The blogger in question, Ethnopunk, or David Robert Lewis,… Continue reading Big bad Independent Group, and the organisation versus the individual
Untitled
One of the many pleasures of living in Cape Town is the abundance of walks. I’ve lived here all my life, and would like to think I’ve explored all of the possible walks in the vicinity, but I know that’s not nearly the case, and I always enjoy new discoveries. Today I explored a new… Continue reading Untitled
Password protected PDF’s on Linux
I’m feeling absolutely exhausted today, after a night of looking after Dorje. It’s not that he stays up all night screaming, rather that I sleep very lightly when I’m looking after him, and don’t go to sleep easily once I am awake. Normally I sleep very deeply, but when I’m awake I’m awake. With Dorje… Continue reading Password protected PDF’s on Linux
b2evolution exploited
After the excitement of my first comment spam back in December, today has been even more exciting! My blog was exploited, the skin wiped out, and posts redirected to a gay porn site. Looks like it’s a new exploit, as the b2evolution site itself has lost its skin, though I didn’t see anything redirecting to… Continue reading b2evolution exploited
My first familiar?
Had an interesting encounter with a red-winged starling today. While on the back deck, doing some tai chi, a starling whizzed past my hair, and landed about a metre from me, watching me. I tried to continue but the cat went for it. After tai chi’ing the cat off the deck, the bird was still… Continue reading My first familiar?
The startup guy
I found a post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog the other day particularly interesting. Jeremy hardly ever writes about MySQL these days, much like me, but I still tend to read him out of habit. Perhaps, like the Sims, it’s because the mundane (such as fixing a leak) can still be amazingly interesting. An applicant for… Continue reading The startup guy
Wedding bells
No, not mine 🙂 I attended a friend’s wedding on Saturday. I’ve known the friend since school (which I left not long enough ago to purge the accursed experience from my memory, in 1988), but we have quite different (putting it mildly) religious viewpoints. The wedding was fun, as far as wedding’s go, what with… Continue reading Wedding bells
The Perfect Storm
Cape Town has been bone dry recently. I have about as waterwise a garden as you can get, the back garden being a fynbos-covered hill. However, with last year’s dry winter, and the hot summer, even established plants have been dying (if I could find the cable for my digital camera I’d show you lots… Continue reading The Perfect Storm