The upsides of distributed companies
Over at toni.org, Toni Schneider gives some points about the values of Distributed Companies – including easier hiring, better communications, better office environments and more ‘social&# ...
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Even ma.tt’s come back to Firefox!
Citing Twitter and Chrome issue, ma.tt has come back home to the world of Firefox! But then again, why leave? ...
Tether the iPad to the iPhone
I think I’ve already shared my thoughts on the iPad — the device that will have to create its own market gap, and then fill it, and then prove that it was perfect to fill that market gap. ...
Radiation from your mobile / cellphone
You can check on how much radiation your mobile phone uses here – the lower the better! The Blackberry 8820 rates very very badly, top of the list of badness, followed closely by the Motorola i8 ...
Kindle DX International now out
Yes, yes – you knew that already. At 546g (250g more than the 6″ Kindle International) it’s still less than the 730g the iPad from Apple weighs in at. Half the weight of a netbook ...
Hospital Bend, Cape Town
In Issue 57 of the City of Cape Town’s newsletter of 12 Feb 2010, an update of the Hospital Bend development is presented. There’s a PDF of the outgoing and incoming lane preselection, rel ...
HTML5 takes over from Google Gears
Google Gears is reportedly being relegated to the bench by the Campus (Google, that is, as mentioned in a range of comments before) in order to allow the fun-filled featues of HTML5 to replace the fun ...
And in other news…
Matric maths marks are not raised by more than the acceptable 10% (!!!???), and the AbaThembu are all ready to take their plans to Parliament today, saying – hold on, we own most of South Africa ...
Y2K vs 2010 vs 2016 — year rollover still an issue
Ain’t that a kick in the head! Rollover from 2009 to 2010 has not been processed correctly on many systems, including Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager, they have confirmed in a state ...
Happy 2010!
Another year, another at least 730-odd opportunities! All the best for the next 8760 hours! 🙂 ...
Kindle Easter Eggs
Igor Skochinsky at Reverse Everything has some fun Easter Eggs for the Kindle (tested them on the Kindle International Edition). All the below is Igor’s work and time and effort. From the Home S ...
Kindle format “cracked open”
So the Kindle format conversion from .azw to OTHER format was already something out there in Python some time ago, now it’s hit the news again. 828 lines of Python (posted 16hrs ago) thwarte the ...
Meep – a blatant attack on Freedom of Speech?
Meep. A word we all know and treasure as spoken by the inimitable Beaker (that long-necked scientist’s assistant from the Muppet Show, always the right-hand “man” of Dr Bunsen Honeyd ...
Processing large data volumes
So a compressed text file that ends up being 72GB sounds like a lot, right? Especially if you have to data-churn it with per-line processing. Fine. Wow. A lot. That pales in comparison to the (reporte ...
MTN Business Effect on Hetzner
From Hetzner‘s Website: “All new websites and servers hosted in SA are housed in the Johannesburg MTN Business facility.” Yikes – that’s the wonky one that went down earl ...
Anti-competitive behaviour ruling against Telkom possible
Not sure whether this is supposed to come as a surprise? From the Business Report on 30 Nov 09: After five years of litigation-filled delays, Telkom is closer to being slapped with a penalty of up to ...
Kindle International Version now with Screen Rotation
As you probably know already, a quiet version upgrade of the Kindle 2 has resulted in new functionality for the aA key – Screen Rotation is now an option, through a full 360°! And web browsing o ...
Google Analytics unzulässig nach deutschem Recht?
Die Zeit berichtet, daĂź DatenschĂĽtzer, auch mittels BuĂźgelder bis zu €50 000, von dem Gebrauch Google Analytics abraten möchten. “Google Inc. räumt sich ausdrĂĽcklich, in seinen beim Einsatz zu a ...
Slashdot offline 13:12 SAST
Perhaps it’s just routing — perhaps it’s the network — perhaps it’s Telkom’s upgrade for 2010… But #slashdot.org is offline… Sigh… But you knew th ...
What not to take while driving…
Source Rory => unknown (otherwise I’d cite it…) What not to take while driving — was man am besten beim Autofahren nicht einnehmen sollte 🙂 What not to take while driving ...