Watching “How I met your mother” again, I was reminded about the correct use of literally as Ted spends a lot of the show correcting people’s use of the word. I know that I’m often guilty of mis-using the word while talking about things and even in posts on this blog.
This website tracks online abuse of the word, always fun to see I’m not alone in my abuse of the word.
These are my links for March 25th from 10:12 to 17:31:
If you’re my regular visitor (Hi mom!) you’ll notice that I’ve made a few minor tweaks to the site.
First was I finally joined and added Afrigator (you’ll see the logo on the left widget bar of the site). I’ve been blogging/journaling/writing for a long time on this site and yet don’t really “hang out” online with any fellow SA bloggers, I’ve decided though in an effort to increase my readership to start working at changing that.
Next up was I finally joined Delicious and have started using it to store my bookmarks, friends have always said I find the coolest and weirdest sites on the net and now with Delicious I’m able to easily share them. I’ve also started integrating Delicious into the site so you’ll see posts will “automagically” be generated that will contain my bookmarks for the day, hour, week etc.
I’ve done a little house keeping on the blog too and upgraded WordPress to the latest version along with updating all the plugins and cleaned out all the “junk”.
Over the next few weeks I hope to sort things out so that I can post more often and more easily, I’ll still write the long “boring” articles I normally do but want to make it so that it’ll be easy for me to quickly post a short something if I find something really cool.
I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, although I must admit I liked the movies and have watched them all a few times, but I can’t recite them back to you…
Just read this article on Arstechnica where the guys at Arstechnica interviewed Daniel Erickson from Lucasarts, he’s a lead writer for the new game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
I love this quote from the article.
Did he really just convince me that the Sith were the good guys in all this? Growing up, being taught to understand and explore our emotions and passions, and then being told this monk-like order had hunted my people to near extinction… it’s easy to see the attraction to taking up your blaster or lightsaber against their order.
In other words, to give into your hate.
Claire and I went to watch the Parlotones in Kirstenbosch on Monday nights, about 2 hours after landing from our trip to Johannesburg. We had an awesome time, weather was cold and windy though but the venue was nice and the Parlotones sounded awesome. Special thanks to Graeme & Angela for organising us some tickets 🙂
Today my boss put 3x Kingston Data Traveler 150 – 64GB Flash drives down on my desk and asked me to take a look at them and see if I could find out whats wrong with them. The drives came from a guy who works in the warehouse at one of our clients, supposedly all of a sudden he couldn’t write to them anymore.
Immediately I was suspicious these flash drives cost over R 1000 each, why did someone buy 3 flash drives instead of an external hard drive? why would 3 of them fail at the same time with the same problem? and who has R 3000 (or more) sitting around to blow on flash drives?
A few friends, my wife and I decided to go watch the cricket last night at Sahara Park Newlands in Cape Town. It was my first time watching a live cricket match, very different… you don’t realise how small the field actually is or how fast the ball travels. The best part about being there is hearing the comments from the crowd we spent most of the time laughing at the guys round us and there comments…
The game was the local (to Cape Town) Cape Corbra’s vs The Warriors, unfortunately the locals didn’t win… although we bowled ok.. our batting was more like we were batting in a Test Series and not 20/20.
This is a quick screen shot of the weather forecast for the next few days in Cape Town. It’s going to be 30 today, 32 tomorrow, 35 Wednesday and 34 on Thursday.
I’m really sick and tired of these hot days…
MacGyver fix for Neotel NeoGo Connection Problem 24/02/2010, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
A client of mine had all their and all their neighbours phone lines fail in one go when a roadside Telkom Junction box became the casualty of a high speed chase.
I had to quickly come up with an alternative way to get them connected to the Internet, a quick solution was a Billion Router fitted with a MTN 3G Datacard with a SIM with the MTNVPN APN enabled so that incoming connections would work for there VPN and a Neotel NeoGo card for outgoing mail.
The only problem was that the NeoGo USB adapter couldn’t get a signal inside the building, after alot of walking around and waving it in the air I found the perfect position in between the burglar bars at the window. A few elastic bands tied to it got it suspended in the “sweet spot” and its working… with between 1-2 bars of signal, but at least it works.
I’ve done this kind of thing thousands of times before, using whatever I have at hand. I don’t think you can call it a true MacGyver solution unless it uses at least one commonly found household or office item.
This is awesome, they’ve created a weapon that can identify, track and fire lasers at Mosquito’s to kill them. Now I understand that there is safety problems with firing lasers around a room, but its such a cool idea.
Like someone said in the comments on Slashdot all they need to do is put it on the top of a Roomba and it clean up the carcasses left after shooting the mosquito’s down.
Youtube video clip of a mosquito being shot down.
Slashdot article I originally found.
New York Times article from TED about the contraption.