13/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Rainbow after the storm, or perhaps between storms not sure.
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Sunset (From the office) 01/07/2009
Sunset (From the office) 01/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Another Sunset photo, this time taken as I left the office. Our offices are in the Pinelands Business Park in Pinelands, Cape Town. I really love the colours, we’ve been getting some awesome sunsets lately.
Now if I can remember to take my phone along I’ll get a photo of a sunrise in the mornings when I go walking.
Sunset
Sunset – 30/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
A beautiful picture I took with my cell phone of the sun setting, love all the colours. Was taken outside our flat in the street, inside the complex, in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Breakfast – That tastes bad with Toothpaste
Breakfast – 24/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Someone suggested I keep track of things that taste bad with toothpaste, in case you’re wondering its a really long list. But this morning I tried one of my favourite yoghurt’s a pear one from Woolworths.
Unfortunately, as I’m sure you’ve guessed by the title, it doesn’t taste that good straight after brushing your teeth, it may be up there with things like Orange Juice.
Low Hits
Noticed that even though I’ve been posting my “hits” are still a little low for some posts, then I remembered that my parents are away for a week and obviously this means my biggest fan (Hi Mom :-)) is not online.
Bad Weather – 23/06/2009
Bad Weather – 23/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Photo taken from our office’s in Pinelands, Cape Town. There is a terrible storm at the moment in Cape Town.
OMFG
Saw this car in the parking lot late one night in the parking lot at the Canal Walk shopping center.
It was the custom number plate that caught my eye.
LOLCats – Seperate your colours :-)
Found this on a site, thought it was awesome 🙂 Probably only makes sense to those of you who do your own washing ;-P
Fun with barcodes.
This started after a twitter discussion with a friend about how to find the country/region for products if you only have a stock code, description and the EAN barcode of the items. This got me thinking, what exactly is in a EAN code and could that maybe help?
A quick search on Wikipedia (my favourite source of weird info) I found this info about EAN barcodes. I was sortof right, the EAN barcode contains the code for the region the barcode was registered in, which while not perfect is better than nothing. The first 3 digits of a barcode gives you the GS1 member organisation which you can then lookup on this list (at wikipedia of course). My Twitter friend (Thanks @_enzo) pointed me to this list of GS1 members which is much more detailed than the Wikipedia one.
This won’t work for everything, a bottle of Italian wine bottled in Italy for Woolworths South Africa carries a barcode that was registered in SA by Woolworths. But my Labello lip balm (the manly one…) has a barcode starting with 400 which is Germany, and the can of coke has one starting with 544 which is Belgium/Luxemborg.
You can also lookup the item on UPCDatabase by typing in the barcode which gives info on where the code was registered and what the item is and by who it was registered. If you’re feeling adventurous you can download the entire UPC database from them too.
It’s not perfect but it might turn out to be useful.
Adding Save As PDF into Office 2007
Microsoft had to remove the ability to save a document as a PDF or XPS file thanks to a legal battle with Adobe. But thanks to a free download from Microsoft you can add this feature back into Office.