Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Google Docs Offline has finally been enabled for me and after 1 minute of trying it out I'm very impressed and I think I may just find myself using the service a lot more. Some thoughts:
Formatting needs to improve, as has been said by others
Inserting images while offline is needed
I ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Right. So yes everybody knows, Facebook Chat has been rolled out to the rest of us not considered worthy of testing it - and it "changes everything".
Vincent Mayer sure got that one right - and as everyone is busy explaining your Facebook contacts are different from your normal IM contacts. ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
The failing of my blogging caught up with me all too quickly; no time to write. Nevertheless I'm back - hopefully with more regularity.
So Neotel has released their pricing for their first offering, and generally people don't seem that happy. But for me it's a little more simple:
Right now I ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
So David Bullard has been fired from the Sunday Times for a supposedly racist column he wrote.
Now without getting too hung up about the issue the column was really doing three things; claiming that Africa would have been exploited by whoever got here first, that Africa would not be where ...
Posted in Political Correctness | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
South African governmental ministers are not generally known for their wise decisions regarding technology, but maybe that just comes from the Department of Communications.
The Minister of Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleket, made excellent comments recently regarding software patents and Microsoft's 'open' office standard.
The particular remarks were made to a ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Forward note - just because this is the first real post doesn't mean all posts are about politics ... I'm not that simple - ok.
A number of people on Mail and Guardian's Thought Leader are asking an interesting question - does that possibility of a chance in leadership in Zimbabwe ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Right. Sitting here, power just came back on - blame Eskom. Decide to try this personal blogging thing again - probably a stupid idea, but what the hell. Install Wordpress (again), install theme (note to self - make a new one) - start writing first post.
How does a first post ...
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