New version of Google Talk is out

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Incase you didn’t know, theres a new version of Google Talk out. It’s now got things like voicemail and the ability to send files.

You can get the new version here. (Please note this version is marked “testing”) You can get the old version on the normal site here.

For those of you who don’t live permanently plugged into the Internet/Googlesphere. Google Talk is a IM (Instant Messaging) system that uses Jabber and allows you to talk or text chat to friends who use Gmail. The really cool bit is you can text using through the gmail web interface or you can use Google talk if you want things like voice.

Update: Fixed the link so that it actually goes to the new version… (Thanks Eduard for the info.)

B&W artwork

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I love black & white drawings and in particular I love inked or pencil sketches of buildings or other man made objects.

One of our clients has these 3 drawings hanging on their wall, I love the drawings and would love to know if anyone knows where I could get them or something similiar or perhaps if someone has some info on them.

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Books

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I’ve got a serious problem when it comes to books… I like them alot. I admittedly wasn’t always like this, when I was in school I hated reading anything other than non-fiction.

Then a friend gave me a .txt file of William Gibson’s – Neuromancer on disk of all things and it changed my life…

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Africa on the web?

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I must admit that when it comes to what’s going on in my own country (South Africa) and on the continent it’s on (Africa) I like alot of South African’s am rather oblivous.

Yes I watch the news on TV, read news papers etc. But I never realised that there are alot of inventions, technology and cool things going on. Perhaps it’s because the news only reports on the bad things and never on the good things or maybe it’s because we’re more interested in what’s going on in Europe and America and the rest of the world and forget about Africa as it’s the “Dark Continent” that nothing comes from.

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Google Part 1 – GDrive

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Google is part of everyday life for me, it’s become something that I can’t live without and I can’t work without. This is the first post of many in which I’ll write about some of the cool things you can do with Google and there suites of software and websites.

This post is all about the GDrive an extension for Windows Explorer that allows you to use your Gmail account to store files. I know it’s a bit of an odd place to start but a I was talking about it over the weekend and a friend asked me to please give him the link to it.
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Learners License

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The law should state that if you are unable to fill out the form to renew your license or apply for a new one then you’re unfit to drive a car.

One of the reasons for my trip to George this weekend was to get a date for my Learners License. Why I had to go to George to do this is complicated and will be a story for another day, I promise.

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Curta Calculators

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While I had seen the odd Curta Calculator on the web and in books they had never really been able to attract much interest from me. At first they sort of look like a fancy fishing reel or perhaps a really complex pepper grinder.

It wasn’t until I read William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition that I truly understood what a remarkable piece of engineering one of these calculators are.

Curta Calculator

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