July 2007
53 posts
Inhumanity a block away from me
I was just chatting to a contractor outside my gate and I heard a man shouting. I looked toward the shouting and saw a woman falling to the ground in front of a white Toyota. The driver quickly reversed and drove back the way he came to the main road. He must have just hit her and then was too spineless to even check to see if she was ok. I was unfortunately too far away to see the license...
Identity of Self by His Boy Elroy →
This track is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license which means you can download it, play around with it and give it to your friends as long as you don’t make money off it. This is one of many songs that are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses on ccmixter.org.
This song is also really well done and worth listening to.
“He’s a f___ing kid”
– My wife when she first saw a photo of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg
Paul Jacobson: New blog post: links for 2007-07-29 http://tinyurl.com/ysapgm (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
Paul Jacobson: I think if I was still working off a PC or Windows laptop I would have converted across to Ubuntu Linux by now. (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
Paul Jacobson: Videos from Joburg 27 Dinner published to chilibean.co.za together with links to my photos. (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
Paul Jacobson: New blog post: links for 2007-07-28 http://tinyurl.com/2hr3yk (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
Paul Jacobson: Taking a while to transcode Scott Gray’s speech … (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
Paul Jacobson: Finally clicked what the Blue Monster thing is all about … about 4 or 5 months later … (via Twitter / Paul Jacobson)
“Men in search of true happiness should steer clear of bimbos and dumb blondes:...”
– Survey: Men Happiest With Smart Wives - Living Now on The Huffington Post
WatchMerlin speaks at Google. He is the Mann! :-P
“ENFPs are both “idea”-people and “people”-people, who...”
– ENFP Profile
I did this test and the result seems to be that I fit this personality type. These tests are always a bit difficult for me because I answer based on a momentary feeling or perception so I don’t know how accurate my answers are.
I suppose personality tests aren’t really...
WatchThis is a video of my presentation slides from the subcommittee meeting at SA Standards last week to debate Microsoft’s application to have Open XML certified as an ISO standard.
WatchRevver » Building on the Past
McBride given "time off" →
Thank goodness someone has recognised the need to take some form of action in this matter. It doesn’t really matter whether McBride has time off until his trial or is suspended. The main thing is that he is not at work, running the metro police in the area.
Romeo & Juliet →
I love this photo!
Early setback for MS format adoption →
ITWeb speaks about Microsoft’s setback yesterday in its effort to have the Office Open XML document format certified as an ISO standard.
The African Commons Project was quoted as voting against the standard on a policy basis.
Success envy
I have been watching a competitor become pretty well known in new media here in South Africa and I am envious of his success. My own business which I started with my partner is still only really crawling, trying to stand and walk, and this guy is becoming more and more well known. Part of our challenge is building this new business while maintaining our current jobs. Ideally we should be able to...
The C-String - Featured on BuzzFeed →
Ok, this is an interesting one. Be sure to watch the video demonstration! It has potential although I am speaking purely as a guy. Don’t see this appealing to too many women …
Nude Shakespeare - Featured on BuzzFeed →
Oh man there is some really funny stuff on BuzzFeed!
Mac OS X based iPods →
So what exactly will a Mac OS X based iPod do? Will iPods become mini tablets? If so and there is multi-touch technology built it … wow!
Relationships with dolls
I found this on Merlin Mann’s blog …
No words.
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Fastest Internet connection in the world: 40Gbps →
Holy crap! This is fast. To think we still have a maximum downlink speed of 4Mbps here in South Africa and Telkom says this is fast … ?! Uh uh!
Is anyone listening to me?
I just read a post about the business application of podcasting. It isn’t a bad article and gives the topic a pretty decent treatment. It bugs me a bit that I have been writing about this stuff for a while now and now there is a new post written as if this is something novel. Is anyone actually reading what I write. If everything written on a blog is going to be rehashed and reposted a...
“Unfortunately, a minority of voices are arguing that policymakers should lock in...”
– This extract is from a Microsoft document that speaks about document formats and the value of choice in healthcare. The irony is that in the debate between the Office Open XML format and the OpenDocument Format, Microsoft leads the “minority of voices” calling for a single file format...
Brian Jones - New Office file formats announced →
Watching this old video interview by Scoble. He is interviewing Brian Jones who helped develop the Office Open XML file format. What I find really interesting is the emphasis Jones places on how Microsoft doesn’t want to lock people into specific applications with the new file format and have been looking at open standards when they developed the file format.
The problem I have with this...
Jaiku: distributed micro-blogging?
I had a thought about tumblelogs and micro-blogs. Consider Jaiku and the ability to import external feeds into a Jaiku stream and then comment on items in a Jaiku stream. It is a pretty awesome feature, especially when you consider that Twitter and Pownce don’t provide this service.
Listening to Scoble’s interview with Jaiku’s founders recently, it strikes me that they are...
Zimbabwe Collapses →
This is the result of a policy of appeasement. Appeasing dictators doesn’t work. Didn’t the South African government learn anything from the Second World War.
Our government is as much as disgrace as the Zimbabwean government for allowing the crisis to deteriorate to such an extent.
Transformers « a review on eclecticism →
Maybe Transformers won’t be worth the price of a movie ticket … a DVD rental, perhaps …
“Mashego, however, said: “Our members are now so angry they are willing to...”
– FIN24 : “We will shut SA down”
Mashego is a union representative and was speaking about a possible CCMA decision about whether power stations are essential services and whether union staff manning those power stations may strike.
When I read something like this I wonder about...
Reconsidering my blogs
I have a few blogs I maintain and I find myself shifting my focus from cultivating the blogs to earn ad revenue to using specific blogs to advance my existing businesses.
Exporting posts from WordPress with and without...
I am moving content from one of my blogs to another blog. I exported all the posts from the soon to be closed blog with spam and the xml file was around 25MB. After I cleared out all the spam that xml file size dropped down to 416 KB. Quite a lot of spam in there! Really bloats the database. Fortunately Spam Karma has a setting that auto-deletes spam after a point in time you can define.
All the Google goodness →
Google is doing some amazing work and this post on Read/Write Web highlights some of the goodies. I have heard some good things about Google Gears but haven’t had a chance to look into it all that much yet.
When blogs go quiet
I am still debating what to do with some of my blogs which I don’t maintain that much lately. Do I keep them going because they focus on a niche even though I only update them once a week at best or is it better to incorporate them into more frequently updated blogs?
June 2007
15 posts
