Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Once it’s leaked on the interwebs, you just can’t take it back. Due to some unfortunate snafu, the details of the Google browser was accidentally leaked. Read more here…
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Tags: browser, google, internet, Technology
UK to add ‘music tax’ for ISPs?
This morning The Independent published a story about the UK government mulling proposals to combat music ‘piracy.’ I have some mixed feelings about this proposal.
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Tags: 'piracy', internet, law, Technology
This is something very exciting for me — Google has mashed up street view with driving directions! This lets you preview the route as you would see it from your car, which is a great idea! Now, how long until we get it in London?
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Tags: google, internet, maps, Technology
Posted verbatim from an email forwarded to me:
(I finally tracked this down to the glossary of the Camel book, but I’d swear I’ve seen it in slightly different form elsewhere.) The Camel book mentions these three qualities:
Laziness
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write [...]
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Tags: humour, programming, Technology
Weird spam…
Even though I haven’t posted anything recently, I do get boatloads of spam; usually I let akismet trash them without any further concern, but this one caught my eye. Strange stuff…
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Tags: jackie chan, porn, spam, Technology
Smallest man-made thing?
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen yet — a tungsten nanotip (a needle, in other words) that is only a single atom wide. The imaging is incredible as well, showing individual atoms and the blurs they make as they shifted during the 1-second exposure. From the article abstract:
“Confining this field-assisted [...]
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Tags: Technology
Rails is so cool…
Things have been so busy, its insane! Hence my silence for over a month now…
I’ve been employed as a Rails developer at Glasshouse Multimedia here in Cape Town, so I’m actually earning an income from writing for one of the greatest web frameworks out there at the moment.
Granted, Rails has been having an insane [...]
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Tags: Ruby on Rails, Technology
President Bush is attempting to get Republicans to end their objections and put into effect the Convention on Cybercrime. It would require the FBI to aid oppressive foreign regimes in enforcing their internet laws, including ones where free expression of political opposition is a crime. In effect, it would end freedom of speech on the [...]
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Tags: internet, Politics, Technology
Akismet rules!
I’ve been getting increasing amounts of linkspam to this blog; since I’ve never had direct-to-publish commenting enabled, I’ve only gotten it in my inbox, but it is still a hassle to go manually clear that out every time.
Enter akismet; it aggregates spam occurences from all the blogs it is installed on, to provide very [...]
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Tags: spam, Technology
After move at the end of June, I’ve been without ADSL. Telkom, our friendly neighbourhood state-sanctioned telecommunications monopoly has a 2-3 month backlog for installation of telephone lines and activation in the DSLAMs.
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Tags: bad business, monopoly, Technology, telkom
MySQL vs PostgreSQL shootout
At the risk of fueling the already-merrily-burning holy debate around which of MySQL or PostgreSQL to use, I’m publishing my own findings here.
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Tags: benchmark, mysql, postgresql, Technology
Forwards are from the devil!
That’s right, folks, you heard it here first. And for those a little slow in the audience, you are probably the kind of people who happily forward on these kinds of spawn you receive from friends or strangers equally!
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Tags: chain letter, forwards, Technology
Yes, they have arrived!
From the bowels of hell, the spammers are creeping in and taking over South Africa too.
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Tags: spam, Technology
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