Yearly Archives: 2008

I’ve recently enjoyed a fantastic Apple experience and I’d like to share it. When I bought my iPod Touch last November (2007) I noticed that on occasion the screen flickered and lost colours quite randomly. I took it into the … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I posted about how Standard Bank had left some Lorem Ipsum on the signup page for thei Jazz festival. Admittedly calling them “stupid” was just rude – indeed as a web designer I too have made silly … Continue reading →

Those who have ever done any graphics/design/web work will be famililar with Lorem Ipsum. It’s simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown … Continue reading →

Stick with me on this one… This morning Amy and I spent some time chatting to an awesome couple outside of the Atlantis Traffic Department for Amy’s examiner to appear and start her test. We chatted about the K53 driving … Continue reading →

After a year and a half of developing and marketing the ChirpSchool product by word-of-mouth, we’ve finally launched a teaser promotional website at www.chirpschool.com. We intend the site to grow quite rapidly over the next few weeks and look forward … Continue reading →

Its been an interesting week for Search. Cuil has launched and positioned itself the google-killer we’ve all been waiting for, Microsoft has refreshed their Live.com search page, and Google has… well… just kept doing what they’ve done for the last … Continue reading →

A geeky post coming up I’m afraid. As you may know – I’m a huge fan of the Subversion (SVN) version control system. For the uninitiated: It lets us synchronise our local “working copies” with a central server. If someone … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the big G released Knol in beta form to the general public. Knol allows Google Account members to create “Knols” which are essentially a page about a topic. Thinking it sounds like Wikipedia? Well, some say that Knol is … Continue reading →

YAML – Yet another markup language

We had our first lecture on Compiler Techniques and Theory today in Computer Science. I think it left some of the class a bit lost, or at least dazed. Here is a bit more information I uncovered this afternoon. Bare … Continue reading →