Monthly Archives: January 2007

Mia starts walking

Here is something that does not happen everyday.. Mia took her first few steps. She is exactly 10 months old today. I was not there to witness the event, but I’m sure she will be using this as her new … Continue reading

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Frogfoot and Amobia at Newlands Cricket

Amobia installed a 2Mbps link to the Newlands Cricket Stadium and Frogfoot put up a Wifi AP with proxy and some Linux goodness. This is mostly used by the press office. I can’t say I really follow cricket, but having … Continue reading

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Evita for President!

Pieter-Dirk Uys radiates pure genius. Some friends and I went to Spier to see the new Evita show last night. I can highly recommend going to see it. Bitter sweet humor, on the surface it’s a laugh, but the satire … Continue reading

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iCal sharing, Sunbird and Iceweasel

I’m now running Iceweasel (2.0.0.1+dfsg-2) and Sunbird 0.2. I was using Firefox 1.5 and the Firefox iCal plugin for the last year or so. This works very nicely and allows everybody in Frogfoot to share calendars using WebDav (over HTTPS). … Continue reading

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VoIP is the next cheap spamming and scamming tool

I posted this to the IOZ mailing list today, but I’m posting it here also.. maybe I can warn a few more people. Today this woman (which claims to be in London) working for Profile Business Services phones me up … Continue reading

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Internet with a big I

A little rant.. the more blogs I read the more of a sense of humour failure is brewing about the spelling of the word “Internet”. It’s “Internet” not “internet”… as in THE Internet. There is only one. ..assuming you forget … Continue reading

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I’ve noticed that some people find dialing-codes a bit too hard to understand. Have a look at these examples: This sign outside Manna in Kloof Street has been there for at least 9 months.. I wonder if anybody noticed? I … Continue reading

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