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  It's about time

  Stii 7:55 am on January 21, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2010

  2010 started slow for me. Struggling to get into the groove, finding any rhythm whatsoever and balancing it all. Thats okay though. It sometimes is good to let one’s mind wonder a bit. A wondering mind sees a lot more and can later take that experiences and apply it to problems. In other words, I’m at peace with the slow start. I’m pretty sure no-one else is.

  2010 is going to be a great year. Not because of the FIFA world cup. I cannot put my finger on it, but I just have this feeling that it will be great. There are so many changes happening, it is frighteningly exciting. Everybody is looking for the “next-big-thing”. We’re evolving fast. We need bigger and better faster. The online economy and community is all weird. Weird is wonderful and wonderful is exciting.

  This year I’m going to keep it simple. I’m going to stick to my new year’s resolution (just to let you know, I’m doing brilliantly thus far!) and try and strike a (as healthy as humanly possible) balance between personal life, family life and work/business.

  So, here is to hit the ground running! Have a good one, my friends. I know I’m going to.

   

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    Emil 8:40 am on January 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Have you heard the sound two tortoises make when on the job?

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    Tiny 10:21 am on January 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Don’t worry Stii… took me almost a month to get my first post of 2010 out… time is such a factor!

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    praetor 3:10 pm on January 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Es Tea Double Eye, not quite what you told your dad! Stumbled upon this out of frustration. Have you had dealings with XBox? It sucks.
    Is your new year’s resolution to let your mind wander a bit? Or did you mean puzzeling mind?
    Have a great time.

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  Priceless comment SPAM message

  Stii 9:38 am on December 16, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: akismet (3), comment spam (3), spam (5), Wordpress (10)

  HELP! I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia and being forced to post spam comments on blogs! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. They’re coming back now. Please send help!

  Well, dude, sorry to hear about your shit! Have a nice life, or should I say death? Anyway, R.I.P. and Feliz Navidad.

   

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    Johan Swarts 11:29 am on December 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    lol!

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    theamoeba 9:51 am on December 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    hahahaha

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    Galen 9:18 am on January 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    10/10 for effort! :D

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    Craig 2:11 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    So if he hasn’t posted again, does that mean he’s sitting out somewhere at the bottom of lake wearing those trendy concrete boots that are so in fashion at the moment? O.o

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  Louis Gossett Jr. pwns Amstel Lager

  Stii 3:12 pm on December 14, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: amstel lager, louis gosset jr, windhoek lager

  Saw this little gem in a bottle store in Brackenfell. A human sized cutout of Louis Gossett Jr. standing behind an Amstel Lager display. It has been like this for almost 2 weeks. The Amstels don’t seem to sell much, but thats no surprise! I can hear Lou say:

  What are you doing Stii? We don’t drink beer with other stuff Stii. Always keep it real and remember, I’m watching you…

  Needless to say, this is now my immediate favorite bottle store!

  

   

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    Jean 2:55 pm on December 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    pretty fun, its a pity they dont sell, maybe the big man is freaking everyone out…his watching them

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  Chrome is gold

  Stii 9:57 pm on December 8, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: browsers (3), firefox (2), google (7), google-chrome (4), osx (7), safari (2)

  I’m ecstatic! Finally the wait for the Google Chrome browser is over. I have to say, my first impressions justify the long wait. I’m in fact putting Firefox on the same shelf as IE, only using it to test web sites.

  

  On the Mac and OS X Chrome does not disappoint one bit. It is as intuitive and nimble as we’ve grown accustomed to. I don’t know how it behaves on Windows, but it just feels so native and good in OS X. Well done Google. It is FAST! I hope the speed does not degrade over time, but the first couple of hours have been a noticeable speed improvement even compared to Safari.

  Stability is key. If you consider that Firefox brings an entire system down if you have more than 10 tabs open at a time. (Okay, I may be exaggerating… but Firefox irks me these days!). Chrome does it well enough. I’m impressed so far. Funny, it loads a new helper for every tab open, so technically it should kill your system, but it just keep going and going. They did it properly, I assume.

  If you’re used to Safari and its developer tools, Chrome would feel right at home. Since both are powered by Webkit it uses the same developer tools. Now, here I do miss Firebug, still, Firebug alone won’t make me forgive Firefox!

  

  What also impress me is how intuitive the search functionality behaves. You won’t see a seperate search box like in other browsers. That is because you don’t need it. You simply enter your keywords in the address bar and it defaults to a Google search for your keywords. Very, very slick.

  

  It has been a bloody long wait. I can honestly say, the last time I’ve been this excited about anything was after I installed Leopard. Unfortunately Slow Leopard was a big let down, but since I spend most my day in the browser, Chrome makes it great again! I hope I won’t have to retract most of what I’ve said here. Time will be the true test.

   

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    Deems 10:16 pm on December 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    Try browsing to Wikipedia and using the search form. Then open up a new tab, start typing wikipedia.org and hit the TAB key – it should instantly allow you to type futher and if you hit enter it will use Wikipedia’s search form to search directly without even browsing there. This works with YouTube, IMDB and Amazon. Well at least it does in the Windows version – hopefully they’ve added that to the Mac version too – enjoy :)

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    Evl 11:14 pm on December 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    I feel the same, using Chrome today for the first time and it is brilliant!

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    Stii 11:18 pm on December 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    seriously, seriously impressed! seriously

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    Chris 12:00 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    If only you guys had a PC you could have been enjoying the Chrome goodness for months, has been my default for ages now :)
    All the best from England Stii and have a fab Christmas dear chap

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      Stii 6:42 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
      

      Shotto Chrissie! Feliz Navidad my brother!

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    Stii 6:42 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    Deems, it works and that is simply awesome!

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    Johan Swarts 7:05 pm on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    welkom by die chroomdroom :)

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    Wogan 3:17 am on December 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    Yup, Chrome rocks, and it recently got even better: http://woganmay.com/2009/12/09/google-chrome-beta-adblock-extension/

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  Do regular expressions like a pro

  Stii 10:02 am on December 1, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: adobe air application, programming (6), regex, regular expressions

  Regular expressions (a.k.a. regex) is not for the faint hearted. It sometimes seems like a programming language on its own. Unless you use it on a daily basis, you tend to forget how to extract an URL from text or how to properly validate an email address. There are a number of good tools, but they all kind of lack one or more features.

  Grant Skinner made an Adobe AIR desktop application that runs on any platform that supports AIR. It is a bloody fantastic app called RegExr. It has a slick user interface that makes it perfect to test your regex on and the very handy feature of saving your regular expressions for future use and a number of recipes made by the user community.
  

  With very little or no regex knowledge, you can now impress your friends like a superhero!
  

   

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    ismail 9:12 am on December 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    awesome find stii!

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  Stii 2:10 pm on November 27, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Business (2), Design (4), Funnies

  Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
  Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
  Prospective client: Yes.
  Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.

  from http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/

   

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  Justin got fed up with SPAM. Funny :)

  Stii 2:03 pm on November 27, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: spam (5)

  Ahh, Justin, bro, I think we all share your sentiments. In fact, if he complies there should be a lot of happy Justins around!

  Dude. This will be the last time we receive a spam newsletter from you. I’m so tired of having to unsubscribe our email addresses from companies that you work with. To be clear, I’d like the following email addresses removed:

  1) Anything that ends in @afrigator.com
  2) Anything that ends in @adgator.co.za
  3) Anything that uses any of my personal email addresses: justin[at]hartman.me, justin[at]hartmanlife.com, in fact remove any justin@ email from all your lists.

  If this happens again I am reporting you to the ISP’s concerned as well as your clients.

   

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    Emil 10:10 am on November 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    That’s a nice way of letting spammers know what combinations of e-mail addresses they now can use. I would not have written such a note ;)

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  Haven't we heard this before?

  Stii 1:40 pm on November 27, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Business (2), clients, negotiating

  Only, this time it sounds unreal and stupid! If you’re a freelancer or have been one in the past, you’d enjoy this!

   

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  This week's jokes are brought to you by SPAMMERS INC.

  Stii 1:44 pm on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: akismet (3), comment spam (3), spam (5)

  I’ve told you before about the creativeness of comment spammers. This week’s flavours are lame ass jokes. Here is a couple found trapped in Akismet:

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  I’ve always known SPAMMERS have a shit sense of humor. :P

   

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  I forgive you, Ras

  Stii 12:19 pm on November 17, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: france, ras dumisani, reggae, sa anthem, springbok rugby

  Lets face it, every South African is a little pissed off at Ras Dumisani. Let’s just say his reggae rendition of our national anthem didn’t go down as expected.

  Why are we REALLY so pissed off? We’re actually pissed off that our Golden Boys lost after an incredible season of rugby. Let me just get this straight: I blamed everything that the Springboks did wrong in that game on Ras Dumisani and Wayne Barnes. Not because it really is his fault that we lost, but I’m not going to blame this incredible team of players for losing.

  Yes, we’re all selfish that way, so don’t kid yourselves. If we won, Ras would probably only have made one or two Sunday newspapers and that would have been the end of it. So, no, I’m not fooling myself, he really is a great scapegoat for my frustrations. National Pride? C’mon, who the hell are you kidding? We’re simply not that sensitive.

  So by now you should have heard Whackhead prank calling Ras Dumisani. If not, here is the link. I felt so sorry for the poor dude. Whackhead gave him a second chance to redeem himself (at which he fails miserably… again!), but that is besides the point. I honestly think he feels terrible. As he said, he was looking forward to singing the anthem. It was a great honor. He actually talks so fast I cannot remember his exact words, but it came down to he’s as disappointed as we are. I honestly, really feel sorry for the guy. He sounds like such a nice chap. Then again, spliff has that effect…

  Ras, don’t worry to much. This has been priceless publicity for you and your music. In fact, I’ve never even known about your existence until now. I’ve always been a bit of a reggae/rasta fan, although probably more so in my wild days. Now and again I’ll listen to the occasional Bob Marley, Peter Tosh or Linton Kwesi Johnson. I may just add a few Ras Dumisani tracks to my reggae collection. It’s not really as bad on the ear as Chris Roper suggests, but thats just my personal opinion.

  Ras, from me personally, I forgive you. Don’t sweat it too much. This may very well work in your favour. Peace. For more of Ras’ reggae hits, click here.

  BTW, I heard something about an upside down flag…? Damn French!

   

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