July 30th, 2007 in Fire (Social)
Thursday’s GeekDinner was enjoyable, and as always, some of the best conversation happened outside of the official talks…
July 30th, 2007 in Water (Personal)
After a Monday morning facing overwhelming odds, I have admitted defeat. 2900 mails arrived in my mailbox this morning, and that’s just what got through the mail server’s spam filters.
So, I’ve had to wave the white flag and reduce civil liberties (apologies for the mixed martial metaphors, but it suits the moment)…
July 25th, 2007 in Fire (Social)
Laurence of Commentary has written two quite interesting pieces on environmentalism and technology (Let’s do the time warp and What’s wrong with technological solutions)…
July 25th, 2007 in Fire (Social)
I enjoyed this piece a friend of mine submitted to Standard Bank…
Further to my earlier email, when your MasterCard SecureCode failed to
recognize my identity number, and I couldn’t make an online purchase,
because either your computers are a total mess or you’ve somehow got the
wrong ID number for me, you will be happy to hear that I managed to
purchase with my GoBanking card…
July 19th, 2007 in Fire (Social)
Paypal became available a few years ago now to South Africans…
July 17th, 2007 in Water (Personal)
I’ve been offline much more than I’m used to thanks to a move of about 400m, from one part of Obs to another…
July 13th, 2007 in Earth (Literature)
I always use a unique email address when I subscribe to anything, so that I can trash it if it gets used for spam, and a number of others who own their own domains do this to.
Normally it’s the dodgy forums that use the mail for spam, but I was a little surprised when the email address I exclusively use for Spambank, aka…
July 6th, 2007 in Fire (Social)
Thanks Urban Sprout for tagging me with a Bloggers for Positive Global Change award.
The award meme was initiated by Climate of Our Future, and the rules are simple – basically, when tagged yourself, tag up to 5 other blogs that you believe fulfill the criteria of trying to change the world in a positive way.
I’ve been enjoying following the path back, and being exposed to a whole range of fantastic blogs that have already been tagged, as well as seeing how people’s ideas of positive change differs…
July 6th, 2007 in Metal (Technical)
There is no doubt that the eNaTIS website was hacked (in the common usage of the word) yesterday, twice…
July 2nd, 2007 in Metal (Technical)
Version 1.0.0 of the Zend framework was released today…
