Skip to content

Posted in Uncategorized.

By

Comments Off

172 Responses

Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.

  1. unknown mob member with a messed said
    on January 19, 2004

    I would like to please notify you that my identity has been comprimised, I am therefore about to terminate my connection to any one relating to or thinking about relating to a mob, so if the reader of this article has any ideas about tracking my whereabouts, don’t bother, since it will be pointless, rather call me, and I will give you directions. but I warn you that I’m heavily armed with the latest in High Powerder Weaponry, connected to very life like humonoids that have the latest in artificial-AI. And as much as I would love to go into detail on how they love to dismantal organic objects, I shall leave it to you capable imagination. be warned, this message is not being tracked and will not explode… hmmm… nope, not possible.

  2. The real Charles Philip said
    on January 19, 2004

    Very Funny! :) – I have done a search on google for my name a couple of times, to see if I would be ranked anywhere in google, but I get too many results around 16 000 results, and even if I try exclude a few popular finds like "The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten …" I still get left with thousands of people claiming to be the real me… hehe, you know what, I think maybe I should just admit that my name is not really "Charles Philip" but a member of a secret mob, that I have no connection with… hmmm… LOL, ok I’m stopping now before I say something really stupid. I wonder if someone who is searching for the real "Charles Philip" will link to this blog… hmm, intereseting thought. My full name is: "Charles John Fairbairn Philip" I like to find someone with the same second and third name… hehe.

  3. Charlie said
    on January 23, 2004

    Hmm… let me add my comments:

    First of all let me start off by saying that there is just too much you can do… I mean I remember being at home when I was like 5 and constantly saying "Mom, I’m bored" and haveing all the time in the world to be inventive and make up stories of how aliens have invaded the planet and we have to select a special weapon from the "TOY BOX" to defend ourselves… we would then rely on my brother to tell us about this threat and make sure we understood all the rules. Fun!

    And even through school I found I also had plenty of time to do things, I mean homework could always be regarded as a "BAD THING" so it was put aside, and I didn’t really put too much importance on being a team player and stand in the sun all day while I wait for my chance to hit a ball with a stick… and when that chance cam I always seem to find that stick a little too thin and the stupid ball preffered hitting the 3 stationary sticks behind me… and so my interests moved to computers which in themselves are a world of "THINGS TO DO".

    So as soon as you leave school, and finish your studies or whatever, you begin working, and guess what you find out: You spend, roughly, 8 Hours sleeping, 8 Hours working, and 1 Hour Driving each day… actually, most people only have the evenings in their lives to do anything, like from 6 until 11, if you lucky. I really think we can’t do without sleep, so my answer to this problem is that we need to have less working hours, I mean I think everyone should work on a commision type scheme, and those who want lots of money and want to get high positions or something can work as much as they want, and those who want to live a better life can just work enough to make a living, problem is the amount of work you have to do just to live… that’s a problem about living in a big city I guess. Anyway, I’m no really wasting time… so I’m stopping… hehe

  4. Charlie said
    on January 27, 2004

    Yay, my name has finally been indexed in google… "Charles John Fairbairn Philip" officially returns 1 result, well hopefully soon to be more. anyways, check out my blog if you are interested: http://www.digitaltinder.com/charlie

  5. Charlie said
    on January 27, 2004

    I would just like to set the record straight and let everyone know that I do not overate myself when it comes to developing :) – hehe, jokes, I know I was just used as an example in your plans to take over the world <evil laugh>HA HA HA</evil laugh>, but as long as you say something good about me in your next blog, I’m happy. – I have to run now, but I will comment on this topic tomorrow, since I always have a lot to say about everything… except developing tools of course, everyone knows I’m overated ;P

  6. Charlie said
    on January 28, 2004

    Woop, I take back what I said in my previous comment, since I didn’t read your post thoroughly enough, you are actually quite acurate in the fact that I would overate people’s developing skills. but still, I don’t mind if you say something good about me in your next blog just for the hell of it.

    I guess with this whole rating thing you wouldn’t really know who rated what for who, I mean I guess whoever is administrating would know. Because otherwise if I knew you thought I overate people, I would then just compensate and rate them higher, because naturally I would think my rating is accurate.

    It is an exellant idea Paul, I must admit, who did you steal it from? hehe ;P

  7. Charlie said
    on January 30, 2004

    That’s cool, I saw this gallery earlier, but you hadn’t put any pics in it yet, I noticed that you put like all the pics from Ian’s Party in it :) – Don’t you think that’s a bit much.. hehe.. anyways, I would like to get this gallery tool from you sometime, not now, but when I start taking millions of pictures again, and that will only be when I get my own digital camara… anyways…

  8. Charlie said
    on January 30, 2004

    Hi Paul, I noticed a small bug in the gallery, if you go into Ian’s Party gallery, and then click on a picture it gives an error because of the apostrophe in "Ian’s", well I think that’s the reason, since if I remove the apostrophe in the address then it is fine.

  9. Paul said
    on January 30, 2004

    Hrm… I finally tested it out, and it seems to work fine. I’m not sure what error you got this morning, but I don’t get it if I go there now.

    Wanna try again? And let me know if its still not working?

  10. Charlie said
    on February 2, 2004

    WOW, that’s exciting news, must be so weird to know that you are both going to be living together as husband and wife in a bran new house… (does it have a white picked fence ;p) – I can’t imagine the day when that will be me. But I still look forward to it. I’m sure things must be so hectic for you at the moment, but at the same time, it must be so exciting!!! You have to have a BIG house warming, and I will bring my camra :D

  11. Charlie said
    on February 5, 2004

    Is this link right? – I just see a bunch of xml

  12. Charlie said
    on February 5, 2004

    LOL – HAHAHA HEHE HA HE HA… VERY FUNNY :)

    - No Serious, that is SOOOO funny (not being sarcastic!)

  13. Charlie said
    on February 5, 2004

    :) – It all depends on how long it will take to calculate the child items in each branch, and also how many levels there are. I like the idea of the top most layer showing the total amount and then work your way down, but it would not be very standard then, each number representing a different amount of layers, hmm… If you could perhaps either put both, or have the ability to set how you would like to view the tree. I guess it would also determine on which number you would need, what is more usefull in that situation. LOL… I started writing this thinking that I would choose one, but now I’m undecided.

  14. Paul said
    on February 5, 2004

    Yup, its right… I just did a "right click | Open in New window", and it worked fine… Most of MS’s site is XML driven. That way they can XSLT it into many different funky formats. And I guess it’s made easier because SQL 2000 can output the results of select statements as XML… (And Yukon will do even more)

    Anyway, it works ok for me… If anyone else reads this, did you have a problem with the link?

  15. Rory said
    on February 5, 2004

    I figure that I’ve been pretty good lately about not starting any wars, so I thought I’d point to Stuart’s funny little thing.

    I cracked up for about five minutes after reading it. So perfectly phrased :)

  16. Charlie said
    on February 12, 2004

    WOW, This is brilliant, what a good idea, looks like a lot of work though :)

  17. Ian Dornan said
    on February 12, 2004

    Paul you are a mighy man of God and he will use you i areas you have not even thought about yet. God bless you you mighty man Gideon. Charlie i am really enjoying your work and reading this work. God has blessed you in creative writting. i am just thinking how can we launch this so that non believrs could have a article to read!!!

    Love you all

    Ian

  18. Will said
    on February 12, 2004

    Thanx to Charlie for the Heads up about this.

    Looks like your gonna make a gr8 leader (as if there was ever any doubt) & I pray that God would bless all of you mightily. Will come visit you guys soon

    Good luck for the Fast, may God show you all where He wants to take you in the comming year

    Will 8)

  19. Andy said
    on February 15, 2004

    I know how you feel about sleekhost, i am with them now but not for long. I almost sure that Secutemate and sleekhost are the same different location.

  20. Charlie said
    on February 20, 2004

    I’m DORY!! :)

  21. Paul Sainsbury said
    on February 20, 2004

    I’ll comment on your blog :)

  22. Kurt said
    on March 1, 2004

    styling! very cool man. will try and look for pics. so christie has a job? Nice one! So you will shortly be twogainfully employed, happily married couple. Very cool.

    Am trying to get some details from the site – have managed to cram 15mins of work in before lunch so having a touch day.

    Sounds like you are a well sorted boy palie!

  23. Nick! said
    on March 2, 2004

    Being the DDR fan I am, it should say something I haven’t bought the Xbox DDR even though I have an Xbox! Yikes. (hint: its because it plays and looks like a downgrade and the announcers are horrrrrrrrible)

    I’m always playing DDR Extreme (Jap) or DDR Party Mix (Jap) on my PS2 these days. If you love DDR (and other music games), PS2 is by far the better investment [especially if you can import]

    I’m not sure what to say about playing imports on a PAL PS2, but I use a flip-lid and swap disk with my NTSC US PS2 to play NTSC JAP PS2 discs, avoiding the modchip route.

  24. Kurt said
    on March 2, 2004

    Dude,

    I would NEVER have figured you for a BUMP cd buyer. EVER. I guess every day is a school day then hey.

    Shows how much we haven;t seen each other lately. You and your (soon-to-be) lovely wife must join us for dinner or coffee one of the nights i am in Jhb. Or at least see me off at the airport.

    Later

    Kurt

  25. Charlie said
    on March 4, 2004

    I have downloaded the tool, it’s quite amazing, because I couldn’t find any tools that would be of use, but I was probably not looking hard enough. I’m not going to use it for the current app that I’m converting because it doesn’t actually have that much php code in it, and to avoid any possible mess, I’m just coping and pasting bits at a time, and converting included pages into user controls.

  26. Kurt said
    on March 10, 2004

    paulski,

    wicked idea this website. makes it purdy easy to leave msgs for you (except everyone can now read them – but since i have only good things to say about you i guess that is ok then! bonus not having to be on my isp or work address. also nice to know what you are up to even though i am lots of time zones away!

    it is so kinda scary that good friends of mine are getting married (thanks goodness there are no kids on the way, well except for beth). wow. it is one of those things that eventually happens hey. shew. i probably won’t be able to get hold of you before the big day, but if i don’t i hope you have a really awesome day and that it is the beginning of a really blessed relationship for you and the (irrepressibly beautiful) christie.

    anywyas, its bedtime on this side so later dude!

    GB

    Kurt

  27. armand said
    on April 15, 2004

    with you on the clipboard spell checker, i use outlook to spell check as it’s usually open already.

  28. Charlie said
    on April 22, 2004

    Hmm…

    I just opened sharp reader and noticed that I hadn’t actually read this highs and lows blog yet… :) – I love the way you get carried away on little randomly "sequenced" ideas that aren’t quite bunched up but arrive in an order that can be described as a sequence as much as it can be said to be randomly created.

    Oh yes, I have two really cool tools to help with the offending word problem you were having, the program is called wordweb, I have the instal, but it would be quicker for you to download it, do a search in google for WordWeb, it is a mini dictionary, and it works extremly well, my brother, Mat, and I use it. It gives quick access to definitions and similar words… nouns, verbs and any other english language jargon.

    That is officially my comment of the day :)

  29. Charlie said
    on April 22, 2004

    This has been the first time ever that I had to speed read through your blog :) – you must have had a lot of time on your hands to write this blog :) – or the lack of service and quality that these photolabs have delivered to you is really getting to you.. hehe. I must say that I have had some really good results from digital photo’s well I don’t have much experience in normal photography, since I’m too young! :P but from what I’ve seen, the photos we get from Photo First is usually excellant especially when we tel them not to "correct" the colour balance… I think for someone to correct colour they need to be really good at it, I mean I totally suck at it. When I see a picture that has bad colour balance I don’t know the difference, except for when my brother, being the colour professional he is, fixes an image, and I’m like "wow… now I see that the colour was bad" there is a lot that goes into balancing colours… just watching my brother zoom around photoshop and looking at graphs of rgb cmyk and so forth confuse me.

  30. Johan said
    on May 6, 2004

    Yes, why dont you sabotage his website – something like take his default.htm/asp or index file away untill he pays you?? Doesnt sound like he knows anything about web devellopment anyway.. heh heh heh

    Anyway just a suggestion…

  31. PETE said
    on May 18, 2004

    Ha ha, but what if GreatGrandpa was a queer. Then he would have no descendants. Therefore it would return zero.

  32. armand@dotnet.org.za (Armand du said
    on May 21, 2004

    No apology needed, I tend to start mumbling after a couple of beers, good to meet you :-) DevDays was very good, kudos to Microsoft for organising an excellent event.

  33. Armand du Plessis said
    on May 21, 2004

    oops, posted a bit quick, wanted to add another url. have a look at http://www.dofactory.com, they’ve got some good sample code and quick overviews of most of the GoF patterns.

  34. Paul said
    on May 21, 2004

    It was good to meet you too – thanks for organising the meetup. :)

  35. Charlie said
    on June 10, 2004

    The site looks really cool now!!

  36. QuiXilver said
    on June 10, 2004

    It really does look great! Congrats!

  37. Barry Irwin said
    on June 25, 2004

    Hi Paul,

    I *knew* I subscribed to your blog feed for a reason :-) I wouldnt mind one.

    Barry ( bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za)

  38. Bug-E said
    on June 28, 2004

    Hey hey!

    Excellent stuff, I wouldn’t mind one?

    Good stuff, keep up the blog! :-)

    Cheers

    Aubrey

  39. Bug-E said
    on June 28, 2004

    Oh, my e-mail address is bug (at) thelair.za.net thanks!

  40. singe said
    on June 28, 2004

    Would love one if you don’t mind. singe {[at]} rucus.net

  41. D-Arb said
    on June 28, 2004

    Hi there,

    Gmail is the new email?

    If you are tempted, there is an email inbox at radbrad at rucus dot net

    It is the new hungry hippo

  42. dud said
    on June 29, 2004

    kxe kxe

  43. Armand du Plessis said
    on July 9, 2004

    I’ve also never actually thought about how the tests are ordered, well now I know, thanks :-)

    I think the important thing is to make sure that the tests are all able to execute independent from each other. So the order in which they execute shouldn’t be important.

  44. Armand du Plessis said
    on July 9, 2004

    I think this also came up on the sa .net newsgroups. (I think that’s where I saw it) They specifically point out that the download etc is only available to the US and certain selected countries.

  45. Barry Irwin said
    on July 12, 2004

    I fully agree with you paul, however a couple of points:

    - chapel was 3 times a week if you count the obligatory hymn practice

    - Ive actually offered to help them get a clue regarding how to use email etc, so far no-one there is biting. On a positive note at least this time every single old boy’s email address wasnt stashed in the to: field. Maybe my ranting to them regarding the last 20 or so emails which I also received in dublicate, triplicate etc did help.

    May clue rain down with great vengance. ( and I’ll mail them again offering help)

    Barry

  46. fivest said
    on July 13, 2004

    The more things change the more they stay the same! I’ve been running into this:

    –

    * the original web hosting provider had registered the domain but not paid for it

    * the registrar was not prepared to transfer it until it was paid for

    * the client was getting e-mails from the registrar about the transfer requests and was starting to e-mail the registrar directly (not understanding any of the technical considerations, and getting very confused by the replies from the registrar)

    –

    since 1996.

    How do you handle client lock in concerns?

  47. Paul said
    on July 13, 2004

    "Lock in concerns? What lock in concerns?" :D

    But seriously, can you give me an example of a lock in?

    As I said in a previous blog, I kinda started the hosting business "by mistake" a few weeks ago. So I don’t have massive experience of this in my own business.

    I kinda managed web hosting at an ISP a while ago, but I didn’t create the contracts, I had virtually no control over what was in them, and the sales people generally did what they wanted and the MD would alter contracts to suite them (leaving the rest of us to deal with the ensuing problems)

  48. David Bisset said
    on July 14, 2004

    Got a "Bad Request (Invalid URL)" when I tried to click on the flex-mx link. :-)

  49. Paul said
    on July 14, 2004

    Hrm… looks like BlogJet got the links wrong… every single link in that post had the same error. :( It’s fixed now…

  50. ../Ant said
    on July 15, 2004

    Thanks for the links, just got your Feed. :)

  51. ../Ant said
    on July 15, 2004

    lol

  52. Rich...! said
    on July 15, 2004

    Hey,

    You rock.

    We have two more:

    http://missinglink.typepad.com/busted/ (a kinda concept blog)

    and

    http://www.missinglink.co.za/ (where we spend our days (nights, and most weekends)).

    Pop by anytime…!

  53. Jon said
    on July 15, 2004

    Thanks for the link to the story blog! That’s my new little pet project that I hope more people will contribute to. I really appreciate the link! As Rich wrote; YOU ROCK!

    Jon

  54. D'ave said
    on July 16, 2004

    I’m actually trying to do something similar, and you’re 100% right. A better way, I found is to set yourself up as a kind of home base, and leave your details in the right areas (forums, blogs etc) and then just let people mail you. I also sent a spamy-kinda thing around, explaining what I was trying to do, and asking people to mail me directly if they agreed, instead of adding their name and forwarding it.

    Then I just collect and sort the replies.

    It’s working quite well, actually.

  55. ../Ant said
    on July 16, 2004

    Yes D’ave, but you’re crap.

  56. Rich...! said
    on July 18, 2004

    Yeah, I have to say mate, I was wondering why you hadn’t given up on these clowns ages ago…!

  57. Kurt said
    on July 18, 2004

    paulski,

    about damn time that someone actually came out and said sometihng like this! (maybe d’ave can manage to figure out how to do it successfully then him and i can go into business and make gazillions of dollars and retire off the coast of majorca?). personally, i just delete them. Less stress and bandwidth and all that jazz.

    keep in touch dude.

    p.s. when you and your wife coming over to london town? you know yous have a spot here….

    p.p.s i don’t have email until saturday when i get back to the uk, as the computer boys have done something to currupt my pc (and i thought it was me?!) so will replicate then.

    later

    kurt

  58. Anonymous said
    on July 18, 2004

    Just for the record, try smspop.com cheap and reliable.

  59. Paul said
    on July 19, 2004

    Rich…! – I’m still using them coz their API was simple to use… Click-a-Tell’s one is not too easy, but I’ve pretty much finished setting it up (Just waiting for Click-a-Tell to sort out my username on their site… It got "expired" because I haven’t used it in a year, and they keep "un-expiring" it but I still can’t log in – I hope their customer service improves otherwise I’m gonna be looking for yet another SMS provider…)

    Anonymous – Two reasons why I don’t use SMSPop…

    1) Their app doesn’t allow grouping of contacts..

    2) They don’t provide any API for me to use to write my own program for sending the messages (so I can build the "grouping" functionality)…

  60. Paul said
    on July 19, 2004

    I have a possible solution to the "Great Petition Dilemma"… which I’ll blog about later… probably in a post entitled "The Great Petition Dilemma"… (just so you know what to look out for)

  61. Paul said
    on July 19, 2004

    Wow… people with cool blogs are posting comments on mine… I’m in nerd heaven. :D

  62. gretchen said
    on August 17, 2004

    LOVE IT! All recruiters out here thank you. :)

  63. Another south african said
    on August 19, 2004

    southafrica.com is not South Africa’s domain nor should it be. Dumbass.

  64. Rich...! said
    on August 20, 2004

    Firstly, Hell T F yeah on the starbucks thing – if only for the wifi and the strawberries and cream/coffee smoothie thingymabob, it rocks.

    With regards the beggars, it’s a catch 22, by supporting one real beggar, your perpetuating the act of begging with another faker. I have taken to only supporting the guys who sell homeless talk (hmmm, I see a related post brewing), at least there you are helping people that are helping themselves. At the end of every month, I usually have three copies sitting in my back seat unread. But hey, what’s R15? As far as I’m concerned, with the odd exception, beggars deserve nothing. There is a guy on our corner near northgate that stands begging, he’s a young fit guy of about 20 – why in the world does he think i’d help him?

    Sad news is, it’s an epidemic and requires a near zero-tolerance approach…!

  65. Colin said
    on August 20, 2004

    It’s difficult to see from your code snippet, where the data comes from. You are not going to be able to do the comparisons for value types "generically" without doing the cast. If the types are known at compile time, I would suggest possibly creating a whole bunch of overloads of the method, with the object-object comparison as a last resort.

  66. jennifer swanson said
    on August 26, 2004

    Yep, unconventional recruiting seems to be popular. In response, I’m doing my best to be creative in my job search approach to get som good attention for my resume….

    Okay, Here’s my absolutely shameless plea for some good resume attention. Trying to get the attention of Microsoft. Is it working? :)

    Seems like I read about all kinds of exciting projects and have even gotten to come in and test a few. I’d love to come work where I love to play.

    Thanks for any suggestions or consideration!

    http://www.geocities.com/jjswanson_mgr

  67. Frank Pistorius said
    on August 30, 2004

    Yes please…would love to have a go with that!

    Frank.Pistorius at planet.nl

  68. Daveo said
    on August 30, 2004

    One would be very much appreciated. dave at valecam dot net

    thanks in advance! :)

  69. Alexander Neumer said
    on August 30, 2004

    I’d love to have a peek – I hope you have one left for me :-)

    thanks

    neumera at klilu dot de

  70. John M Deal said
    on August 30, 2004

    I’ve been attempting to hook up and saw your post over on Rory’s blog. If you still have one to pass along I’d appreciate it if you could send it my way. Thanks.

    John M Deal

    johndeal at deploymentcentric dot com

  71. dean reese said
    on August 30, 2004

    love to have a look at it. I am normally a yahoo user, but heard great things about gmail

    Thanks

    dean at blueglowworm dot com

  72. saurabh said
    on August 30, 2004

    Hi.. I need a gmail invite… wd highly appreciate if you could send me one

    thanks !!

    saurabhb2000 at the rate yahoo DOT com

  73. Greg said
    on August 31, 2004

    Hello !!

    I would really like a GMail account if you still have any left.

    Thanks so much

    glm at nwnatural dot com

  74. Colin said
    on September 2, 2004

    Link is broken

  75. Kurt said
    on September 6, 2004

    visit http://www.hellkom.co.za (if it is still operating) for a giggle or five. highly entertaining

  76. bob said
    on September 8, 2004

    ur gay

  77. Aubrey said
    on September 9, 2004

    So this fly hops, skips and jumps into a screwdriver. "You’ve got mail!" exclaimed the egg as it tripped and fell head over toiletpaper into a pile of ominous-looking nailpolish removers.

    What can I say? I eat vaseline-coated squid-health-counters for thursday-evening water spitoons.

    Help me, I’m stuck inside my head.

    What? It doesn’t make sense? Eat an mp3 file. It helps for the nausea.

  78. Peter Anyak said
    on September 11, 2004

    A friend of mind, once said that we are afraid that we might fail, or worse yet successed of what we can becomes. Knowing family of unknown, or one that can become of our blood can be a question of our insight. I think, what you have done here suplement the strong inside spirit of God which always work in people of God, wherever, He intent them to be. He Himself, will bless you to continue your mission. may His spirit continues to bring forth the good work in you. I’m a Lost Boy from Sudan in case you wonder. Love be with you

    Peter Anyak

  79. Peter Anyak said
    on September 11, 2004

    A friend of mind, once said that we are afraid that we might fail, or worse yet successed of what we can becomes. Knowing family of unknown, or one that can become of our blood can be a question of our insight. I think, what you have done here suplement the strong inside spirit of God which always work in people of God, wherever, He intent them to be. He Himself, will bless you to continue your mission. may His spirit continues to bring forth the good work in you. I’m a Lost Boy from Sudan in case you wonder. Love be with you

    Peter Anyak

  80. Critical Analysis said
    on September 16, 2004

    Perhaps a constructive comment and observation about the Guys from new solutions is their lack of situational awareness when presenting to an audience. I am not impressed by both their technical skills and presentation skills.

    You know when you meet guys who think they know it all….

  81. Ken said
    on September 27, 2004

    Any left

    odie at 444 dot net

    Thanks Ken

  82. Damian said
    on September 30, 2004

    I would like a GMAIL invite please.

    my email: damian2003@hanmail.net

    Thank you

  83. NewSolutionsSucks said
    on October 6, 2004

    New Solutions – perhaps the worst service based solutions company in South Africa. Where do you hear of solution providers telling you what is best for your organisation. Besides, they have a narrowly focussed approach where they and are not open minded. They drive only their personal gain solutions and expect it to be accepted. They are not receptive to other comments and solutions in other words whatever they expect everyone to accept whatever they mandate or suggest and get aggressive when other alternatives are suggested.

    These guys suck. They are clearly not what the IT community needs, and I am surprised that Kim Midgley is an MVP!!!!!!!! They need to learn people skills to be able ti survive in a South Africa where preferential procurement is the name of the game.

  84. MK said
    on October 6, 2004

    Where are the invites ???

  85. Charlie said
    on October 20, 2004

    Ok, so IE has it’s advantages… but Firefox has soo many cool plugins and addons, that I don’t really care if it battles with malformed code (that is if it does) :)

  86. Charlie said
    on October 20, 2004

    Well, can’t quite say I have experienced the geekish rush of creating something that’s functional in C++, but I did get this one C++ app to compile which was quite fun (in a weird sort of way) – But regarding C# – I can totally aggree to say the C# Rocks!

  87. Charlie said
    on October 20, 2004

    The bonus of a cordless mouse, you just turn it 180 degrees around :)

  88. Aubrey Kilian said
    on October 21, 2004

    I installed SP2 at home.

    My Maxtor 160gig SATA (main C drive) died as it rebooted.

    Coincedence?

    I had to re-install. But I re-installed from a roll-up WinXP+SP2 cd, instead of installing vanilla XP and patching to SP2. Has been working fine ever since. (Not to mention my 100-odd gigs of lost por… erm, data…)

  89. Ladoquin said
    on October 25, 2004

    dude i would think that you are talking about myself and Charles last tuesday.

    very interesting post i like the thought flow and possibilities for blowing such debate way out of preportion.

  90. Paul said
    on October 25, 2004

    Wasn’t it you and Matt that were talking about this?

  91. Charlie said
    on October 25, 2004

    It wasn’t me… just so you know this is how I pronounce them:

    varchar: VAR (soundsl like far) – CHAR (sounds like charm, but without the m)

    variable: VERY (sounds like very) – A BILL

    :)

  92. Ladoquin said
    on October 27, 2004

    seems i am of a file extention i would not have guessed.

    <a href="http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/extension_quiz.php"&gt;&lt;img

    src="http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2004/10/file_extensions/ogg.jpg&quot; width="300" height="90"

    border="0" alt="You are .ogg Even though many people consider you cool and happening, a lot still find that you’re a bit too weird to hang out with."><br>Which File Extension are You?</a>

  93. Craig said
    on October 28, 2004

    I got .swf. Flashy, but lack substance. I wish that were true. Well, at least the flashy part…

  94. Don said
    on October 28, 2004

    I got .doc. Only my creator has a handle on me! Thanks for the link!

  95. secretGeek said
    on October 28, 2004

    No worries mate! :+)

    we definitely owe it to ourselves to be a little kinder (to ourselves… that is)

  96. Charlie said
    on October 28, 2004

    I’m anything form a swf to a pdf, an mp3, and finally I got a "*" wildcard! crazy test… the OS test is very funny though.

  97. Josh Davidson said
    on November 20, 2004

    I’d just like to say that I am part of the youth at NCCB, and Simon and Tarryn (who have recently been ordained as elders) are outstanding leaders and an excellent example of Christ likeness.

    They are the leaders at youth, and Simon has spoken on some quite dynamic topics.

    THANKS GUYS!!!

  98. Siavash said
    on November 23, 2004

    Is there any body that can invite me to gmail. Thank you..

    saleh_nikkhah@hotmail.com

  99. Dominic said
    on November 23, 2004

    The demo scene is still going strong. Check out http://www.scene.org/ .

  100. robvdv said
    on December 1, 2004

    Yup, I had the identical experience.

    I was looking at the Treo, but the one down here doesn’t have bluetooth/Wi-Fi.

    When you have a phone that big, the Bluetooth headset is a serious plus.

  101. Das Boot said
    on December 11, 2004

    I used to work there, and lemme tell you what….The "head of technical servoces" is a 21yr old without much formal training except fro some cockamamie certificate in delphi from some unknown "educational institution"….Go figure..Senior management spends more time and money flying their little plane than they do worrying about business….Anyone noticed that they’ve now become "altonet"…yeah, mismanage my balls clowns….

  102. Dave said
    on January 6, 2005

    A couple of my coworkers pronounce it as VAR-KAR and it drives me up the wall. They all pronounce char the way it should be. Chris my coworker says it’s like his ch in his name, but I pointed out that in all most all cases ch is pronounced differently, as in church, chicken, chubby, chalk, etc.

  103. Rox said
    on January 14, 2005

    Dude, that is one of the best sites I’ve seen in a while!! I liked the Excorsist one best. You must check out the Book of Bunny Suicides, forget who it’s by. It’s sick, but very funny.

  104. Randy R. Jackson said
    on January 25, 2005

    That is hilarious Paul. Put a smile on my face for the day.

    Made me think of land mines. I’ll explain (choke, clear throat) After reading Johnny Walker’s (founder of Autodesk) treatise on using small robots to clear landmines (sorry I can’t find the link) because rabbits just didn’t weigh enough to set them off, I thought that probably genetic engineering or selective breading could resolve the light bunny problem. Due to bunny’s reproductive behavior landmine damage to the bunny population would be no concern, and the various scavenger fauna would have plenty to eat and so on..

    Now if I owned a bunny farm I would hire the Bunny Animators to produce a intra-corporate presentation to convince stockholders to invest in this previously untapped opportunity to do good in the world. That’s what I would do.

  105. Rich...! said
    on January 26, 2005

    Shit, I guess you have a point. I liked the campaign, the basic humility of it, but I can see how it could be interpreted badly. My understanding of the current relevance is that no matter how much better they get, they constantly want to improve.

    Having said that, the current run of ads has become tired, I’ll tell em to pop over and read your post…!

  106. kamyar said
    on January 31, 2005

    sp3 software

  107. Andrew Gruskin said
    on February 5, 2005

    Did you ever determine a workaround for this bug? I"m about to implement by own PropertyDescriptorCollection where Remove will work. I just hope that DataBinding likes my collection. Before I go down that track it would be could to know what if any solution you found.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

  108. denver mcneil said
    on February 6, 2005

    i have 2 chicken breast, 2 sweet peppers, a cucumber and some cellery.

  109. Moira said
    on February 8, 2005

    PLZ GUYZ I NEED TO GO ON MSN LIKE U DUNT UNDERSTAND HOW BAD I HAVE TI?CANT CHU SEE IM LIKE SENDIN U DESPERATLY DIS..PLZ LIKE OMG PLZ U HAVE TO FIX IT..WHY ISNT IT OWRKING LIKE I DUNT UNDERSTAND?:( PLZ U GUYZ FIX IT..!

    I N E E D I T N NOT JUS ME BUT 752708710878378530 OTHER PPL!!!

  110. Paul Sainsbury said
    on February 15, 2005

    Hi,

    Yeah… I see the potential problem… All I said was "aparently the other Paul hadn’t put the money into Sean’s account yet"… I didn’t state that the other Paul didn’t put the money in the account. I just said that Sean didn’t bother to resolve the issue. I have no issues with Paul, and judging by Sean’s reactions to the entire situation I doubt he even made the mistake he claimed (i.e. I doubt he ever paid the money into the other Paul’s account – but that’s just speculation)

    As it turns out, Sean started to deny that I’d ever worked for him (odd since I happen to have it confirmed by one of his current employees, and I somehow have the source code and databases for all the sites I claim to have worked on)

    Anyway… Thanks for the advice… I’ll update the page to remove the other Paul’s surname so that people don’t get the wrong idea about him…

    From

    Paul

  111. Rich...! said
    on February 16, 2005

    Sheeesh, don’t worry bro, I made enemies on this post:

    http://www.missinglink.co.za/blogger2/2004/06/cell-c-for-someone-else.html”>http://www.missinglink.co.za/blogger2/2004/06/cell-c-for-someone-else.html

    It’s stil on our homepage too:

    http://www.missinglink.co.za/

    To me the bottom line is that if the facts are on your side, you’re just stating your case…!

  112. Sean said
    on February 17, 2005

    well i had a similar case with the house development. You know all about the house development.

    My mother (now working for a law firm) mentioned that if you type up the conversation that happened between myself and the agent (in your case the client) then e-mail it to him and have a header along the lines of "As discused in our conversation" then this is legaly binding in court. if he disagrees to the e-mail he is abliged to reply with the corrections.

    I would look at adding something to the footer like. If no objection to this is recieved then this is taken as factual.

  113. KevinT said
    on March 1, 2005

    I signed up with them on Friday, and i am getting my device tomorrow…you ass is on the line…. ;-)

  114. Aubrey Kilian said
    on March 1, 2005

    Wait until you reach your 3GB cap. :-)

    You get downgraded to a max of 64kbit/sec after the 3GB, and apparently you can buy another account for an extra Rxxx.xx

    That’s the story I heard in December when I watch a demo of the tech…

  115. Paul Sainsbury said
    on March 1, 2005

    Yeah, 3GB is small, but then compared to what’s on offer, its faster than Telkom’s fastest connection, has the same cap as them, has faster access after the cap than telkom, and costs less. Compared to Sentech, its faster and cheaper than their fastest option, but its capped whereas theirs is not. I don’t mind the cap, as long as I have good speed until the cap. I guess I’ll just have to wean myself off the massive downloads once the cap’s in place. So far its just been a few .Net Shows, some DotNetRocks shows, and audio streaming. I’m pretty sure I’d have hit my cap already if it was in place, but then I won’t usually download 6 .Net shows in a month (they only do a new one about every 1.5 months) and there are only 4 DotNetRocks episodes in a month, so I guess I’ll be ok. ;-)

  116. armand@dotnet.org.za (Armand du said
    on March 2, 2005

    That is insanely funny. Saw it yesterday and have probably watched it about 10 times already :-)

  117. Senkwe said
    on March 11, 2005

    Wait, has the cap been implemented yet? I don’t remember recieving any notifications to that effect.

  118. Paul Sainsbury said
    on March 14, 2005

    Nope… no cap as yet, but its aparently expected in the next week(or two).

  119. Rich...! said
    on March 14, 2005

    Sounds like a rad w/end, happy ani bro…!

  120. Craig said
    on March 15, 2005

    …and I mentioned your blog entry to Kevin before he’d read it. Then he went along and got it, and I was left in the dust. I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to order it today.

  121. Janco said
    on March 15, 2005

    Am I right in saying they haven’t launched officially yet? It would be interesting to see the QOS when they do. Believe me when I say I don’t need any motivation to can my ADSL line, I just need to see how they perform under load…

  122. KevinT said
    on March 17, 2005

    Congratulations! May the next year be better than your first, but the worst you will ever have…

  123. Kurt said
    on March 21, 2005

    congrats on the 1 yr ani. ALREADY? Wow…

    uploading this post from my bedroom (wireless internet) at 54.0 Mbs… or is that the network speed? my h/mate says it is a 1mg broadband line whatever that means. life is good indeed!

    email me dude.

    cheers

    kurt

    mailto:kurt.g.tiedt@uk.pwc.com

  124. Rich...! said
    on April 9, 2005

    hehehehehe…!

  125. Jerry Griffiths said
    on April 17, 2005

    If you are a subsciber to MSDN, VS 2005 beta 2 is now available, as I am downloading it right now :-) 4-16-2005

  126. Jerry Griffiths said
    on April 17, 2005

    Take that back, VS 2005 is to release the 25th. Sorry for any excitment in my previous post :-(

  127. Armand du Plessis said
    on April 21, 2005

    The i-mates are pretty nifty. I bought the JAM when it was released and I love it. Got all the PDA functionality I need and it’s small enough to use as a first phone.

    I was looking at the SP3 as well. Looks like a very cool phone!

    The Club i-mate site is also pretty cool, full of useful stuff.

  128. MaLio said
    on April 21, 2005

    Hi

    Thanks for the feedback ….

    // one small comment …

    /*

    (I’m still not 100% sure why the XML Serialization created two identical objects in the one scenario when the Runtime/Binary Serialization didn’t… well, I think I know why the XML did its thing, but I’m so not sure why the Binary one didn’t do it)

    */

    The formatters in System.Runtime so recreate the original object graph, fixing up refereced objects, however the XML serializer does not (i.e. It [xml] will create two identical objects but object.RefernceEquals will return false … i.e. two distinct objects will be created with identical [public] state) — The XML serializer does not manage object references … the other [runtime] does, using System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectManager and Sytem.Runtime.ObjectIDGenerator

    // setup comment

    font was enlarged because the projector did not project a perfectly clear image .. I thought rather a little code at a time that was readable than a whole lot of code that wasn’t.

    light above the podium was not functioning to factory specification (bring a spare light bulb just in case)

    You’re welcome to a copy of the source code … send me a mail via my blog and I’ll reply

    Again, thanks for coming along and the feedback

    MaLio

  129. Paul Sainsbury said
    on April 21, 2005

    Thanks for the comment…

    I’d guessed that the screen size was due to some projector issue. I just know that as a presenter my nerves would be far more at ease if I was used to seeing my code at that size.

  130. Paul Sainsbury said
    on April 22, 2005

    Testing the Captcha stuff – just implemented it…

  131. kevint@gmail.com (KevinT) said
    on April 22, 2005

    Could work well! I will defenitely check it out…

  132. Craig Nicholson said
    on April 24, 2005

    Hey Paul, I thought this blog entry (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000254.html) might be of some use to you in preparing for your session on Reflection. :)

  133. Craig Nicholson said
    on April 24, 2005

    The Smart Device Framework 1.2 rocks, especially for serial port access which was only introduced into the new 2.0 editions of the frameworks.

  134. KBarnhart said
    on May 9, 2005

    Instaspace really is a horrible company. AVOID them at all costs.

  135. Derek said
    on June 1, 2005

    Be blessed today! And I pray God leads and guides you this coming year.

  136. Derek said
    on June 1, 2005

    As a birthday gift, I can give you some of option 5 on your wish list… Send me an email address I can use for fairly large attachments. :) Obviously the CD’s are not included, but I’ve got most as e-books.

    :)

  137. Craig Nicholson said
    on June 2, 2005

    Happy Birthday Paul. Its a bit late, but I’m behind on my blogroll. Welcome to the 28 year old group. :)

  138. LouLou said
    on June 7, 2005

    I would think that the children are happy to be photographed. Or maybe they are too shocked to know what is happening.

  139. rob said
    on June 9, 2005

    hey

  140. KevinT said
    on June 20, 2005

    Thanks for an excellent presentation – you obviously put a lot of work into it and that was very evident in the quality of your talk.

  141. Cobus said
    on June 20, 2005

    Hi Paul

    I got an i-mate sp3 about 2 months ago and I’ve been very happy with it so far…

    Tell me, where is the best place to get a mini-sd card? Everhwhere I look they only sell SD cards…

    Laters

    Cobus

  142. Paul Sainsbury said
    on June 20, 2005

    Hi Cobus, Not sure how to contact you… A few blogs ago I mentioned that Leaf Wireless are having a special on memory cards… I got mine from them for about R280. The next best that I found was to buy from DigitalPlanet.co.za (you can get a discount voucher for their store via the 5fm.com website).

    Send me an e-mail via the "Contact" link on my blog and I’ll give you more info. (Are you the Cobus that I have in my MSN contacts? If so, just MSN me)

    From

    Paul

  143. Aubrey Kilian said
    on June 21, 2005

    It’s called gmail. ;-)

    And with their pop3 access, and the fact that you can leave the mail on their server for backup purposes, it’s lovely to use…

    With some clever filtering on your and gmail’s side, you could filter your work mail through gmail too. :-) I don’t do that though, Thunderbird’s never lost my Inbox. Must be because I don’t run it on Windows? ;)

  144. Paul Sainsbury said
    on June 21, 2005

    Hrm… I started swapping back to Outlook Express and the little sucker has already pissed me off enough to make me think again about using Thunderbird.

    I guess I could setup a gmail account for each address, forward all my mails to the right addresses, and then just download each account via pop3 using the corresponding gmail account.

    That way I could leave stuff on the server indefinately, so I’d have web access, pop3 access and spam filtering all in one. Ok, so I think I’m gonna try set it up. If I get it working I’ll post an entry about it…

  145. Marc said
    on July 13, 2005

    brilliant idea.google earth rox !!

    except i cant download the file :(

  146. Paul Sainsbury said
    on July 13, 2005

    hrm… looks like I have some file permission problems… I’ve mailed the guys who have access to the server to try and get it sorted out. :(

  147. Paul Sainsbury said
    on July 13, 2005

    All fixed. :)

  148. Craig Nicholson said
    on July 15, 2005

    As a note, I too used to use NAV… but I’ve discovered something cooler than all of them… avast! Antivirus. Try it out … http://www.avast.com. Its free for personal use as well and cheaper for businesses than McAfee and Symantec.

  149. Malcolm Chalmers, Armstrong, '79 said
    on July 22, 2005

    More agreement.

    In my first term, I’d worked out that any religious teaching that couldn’t stand on it’s own merits, that needed such barbaric and unsubtle enforcement had to be deeply suspect.

    I had a fascinating time testing the place’s "religious ethic", particularly with my refusal to be confirmed.

    I left the place a firm atheist, absolutely poisoned against religion, and it took a while before I got willing to look at the field with an open mind.

    As irony, or perhaps kharma would have it, I’m now sincerely religious, and I wonder if St Andrew’s would be proud of an old boy that now teaches Tantra, Sacred Sexuality!

    Regards

    Malcolm (a.k.a. Swamii Advait Rahasaya)

  150. Eugen said
    on August 29, 2005

    I want more freeware

  151. guna said
    on September 3, 2005

    while trying for intenet,a message apears:off the airplnane mode.how to do it

    guna

  152. Reyna Rodriguez said
    on September 8, 2005

    1 cup of azucar

    24 soft sponge cakes

    100 grams of pure dust cacao

    1 cup of coffee 5 eggs

    100 grams of licor

    1 liter of cream eliminates

    500 grams of cheese mascarpone

  153. GEO*TB1 Charles said
    on September 11, 2005

    Thanks for the link.

    It does appear to have some good pricing.

    Just out doing a little 9-11 Memorial posting today.

    Thanks for the blog site and posting it.

    HAPPY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GEOTRAILS

  154. Andrew said
    on September 21, 2005

    I was using Thunderbird 0.8 on Windows XP Professional. I receive many emails from Japan with malicious attachments. Thunderbird is good automatically detecting the Junk. I NEVER open the attachments.

    I was running Symantec Anti-virus with auto-protect and email scan. Starting one month ago, my Inbox file became 0bytes long during the download of the messages from the server. I found the file was not quarantined by Symantec AV. I disabled Symantec, and soon the Inbox disappeared again and third time.

    I stopped using Thunderbird for a while. Today, I uninstalled the old Thunderbird and erased the Profile in my Application Settings. I installed Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1, created a new account and downloaded my mail. After creating some filters I started marking some messages as Junk. Note: The Anti-Virus program is not running! After I marked a certain email as Junk, my Inbox became 0bytes long.

    WARNING! It seems an attachment is erasing my Inbox without execution!

    If you have any experience with this sort of problem, or can recommend a more secure Email program, please respond.

    I would love to continue to use Thunderbird, but it may be too dangerous.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  155. Armand du Plessis said
    on November 15, 2005

    And I thought my RSSBandit was mixing up posts again, then I saw you did actually blog again :-)

    Download the IMHO source, I don’t think the proxy code is complete for all adapters so it might not be the proxy’s fault.

  156. Ernst Kuschke said
    on December 2, 2005

    LINQ rocks – glad you enjopyed it :)

  157. Sipho said
    on December 6, 2005

    uninstalling visual studio 2005 seems to be the best option.

  158. Mom said
    on January 4, 2006

    You haven’t seen "It’s a Wonderful Life"???

  159. Denyse said
    on January 5, 2006

    How did they do? I know it was months ago but I´m old and slow :-)

  160. Norair Minasian said
    on March 12, 2006

    just give me a free software

  161. gmk said
    on April 3, 2006

    IMHO ate the post again… :( Must find another tool to create my blog entries in…] ….

    use wordpress !

  162. Julia said
    on August 29, 2006

    Hi Rathlan!

    Hi! I live in Brazil and I would like to exchange postcards with people of the world!

    My email: julia.damore@gmail.com (Subject: Postcrossing)

    Brazilians Kisses

    Julia

    PS:

    * My English is bad, therefore you has patience with me! I speak better Portuguese, Italian and Spanish (little).

    * Do you participe of the forum? Join!!! Is very nice!!! Link: http://forum.postcrossing.com/

    * Me in forum: http://forum.postcrossing.com/member.php?action=viewpro&member=judamore

    8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8

  163. julia said
    on September 26, 2006

    Hi there! :D

    I invite you to participate of robin round of the continents. Do you Accept? :)

    link: http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=4237&page=1

    judamore

  164. Dolf said
    on May 4, 2007

    I was a big Notepad2 fan, until I came cross Notepad++. Notepad++ bits Notepad2 in every aspect!

  165. Peter said
    on May 27, 2009

    Please let me know hen you get it right I’ve been through the same process. I even emailed the sales guys at Vodacom with the press release off their own website. They ignored me.

  166. Peter said
    on May 27, 2009

    and another thing, I noticed you’ve not blogged about your home cell for a few years…. Do you still attend one?

  167. Pieter Dickson said
    on June 9, 2009

    Got my Magic today, similar experience to you. I am disappointed that Android Market is not there but i think the Leaf guys have done a decent enough job. Interestingly, I see loads of stuff to personalize your phone with, ringtones, wallpapers etc…. Google and iPhone guys don’t have that…. Nice one Leaf

  168. Bortner said
    on June 10, 2009

    Hey Paul

    I have a few comments. I originally bought an HTC Dream from MTN but ended up returning as i had a requirement to sync to exchnage. the sales folk told me that that this is done by downloading or buying an application from the market. unfortunatley they don’t tell you that the android market is not availale in SA and the Leaf equivalent (OpenMarket) was barely operational.

    fortunately i got a refund and usede the money to by a HTC Magic which has some limited activesync ability.

    While i have seen some progress on the open market in the last week, it is still a far cry from where the Androind market is and the ability to buy and download these applications is key in the purchase decision.

    imgine buying an iphone with no access to Itunes store, its a little more than an ipod.

    Hopefully we get up to speed on the applications and in particular the one i want is google SkyMap (one of my reasons for buying android).

    anyway, lets see it improve

  169. admin said
    on June 10, 2009

    I’ve sent off some enquiries to Google South Africa to see if they have any information. I 100% agree on your analogy – it’s exactly like the iPhone without the App Store. With Apple you get the good and the bad sides – Good – only one store is allowed, so that means it must be available everyon. Bad – Apple can be as picky/anti-competitive as they like about what apps they allow to be sold. Android is the opposite – any store is ok which it means that there’s no single store that has all the apps, BUT at least anyone can write any app for it, so you can get Podcast downloaders, or alternative music players, or any number of other applications that Apple would usually reject.

  170. Nerine Schaper said
    on June 18, 2009

    Well now looky here who I tracked down ;D

  171. Brady Kelly said
    on June 28, 2009

    Dammit I need a new phone, then I’ll also have a whole stream of blog inspirations :-)

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Final bits of Wordpress migration - Tinderblog linked to this post on December 19, 2008

    [...] Apache has a nifty “mod_rewrite” add-on which lets Wordpress do the cool url’s like http://blog.digitaltinder.net/2008/12/exporting-blogml-from-subtext-21-and-importing-blogml-into-wor... instead of having a link to [...]