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#Twitter taking #WorldCup strain during matches like #FRA v #MEX

http://status.twitter.com/ is reporting the High Error Rate on Twitter.com since yesterday already, and #Trends have been temporarily disabled since the 15th of June. On Monday the 14th of June, #Twitter blamed the site availability issues on the failed enhancements to their #Timeline Cache. At that stage, it took them a good 5 hours to restore the site to full status, but there were ongoing hass ...

And now for something completely different

The Hippopotamus Song Words by Michael Flanders Music by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar. He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay By the light of the evening star. Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair Hippopotamine maid. The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade. Mud! Mud! Glorio ...

2 days, 18hrs to go – tickets for Cape Town matches plentiful

That place on the web that sells tickets to the foot-operated sport worth billions taking place in a country featuring cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg this year – FIFA.com – has taken the count-down clock off-line – so I had to find other sources to give the 2 day, 18hr count-down. Meanwhile, there is some uproar regarding the takings some teams have in store for them as ...

Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF zero-day critical vulnerability in the wild.

From Adobe‘s advisory: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take ...

Ticket sales improving? 15:53 SAST vs 18:24 SAST Cape Town FIFA Ticket availability

Seems like tickets are flying… check the usage at 15:53 SAST on 5 June below. Now compare this with the availability at 18:24 SAST today same time (ie 2hr 31 min later), below. Seems like tickets are near to the “sold-out” definition – but let’s wait for the re-shuffle to proceed… TimesLive reports that 58 000 tickets will be made available on Monday (remember ...

6 days to go… tickets available again for the Soccer World Cup

So the big ticket shuffle has started again, and tickets that were “currently not available” this morning, at least for the Cape Town matches (France – Uruguay) are available again – if only in Category 1. An overall view shows tickets available across the board (especially in Polokwane and Rustenburg…) If you’re keen on getting tickets, keep checking back on t ...