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Computing

Last.fm iTunes Plugin Now (Offline-)Scrobbles Manually Updated iPods!

Good news for all of us using iTunes with a manually updated iPod. We previously were forced to use the still-brilliant “iScrobbler” iTunes plugin to get tracks that were played on an unsynced iPod onto last.fm. This is no longer the exclusive domain of iScrobbler. The latest last.fm official iTunes plugin recognises manually managed iPods and gets their play data scrobbled up automatically to last.fm within a few seconds after plugging the iPod in.

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Sports

Oscar Pistorius – Time 100 Most Influential Person

Time Magazine has just released their Top 100 Most Influential People, and the list includes South Africa’s very own double amputee Para-almost-Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius.

A quick look at the list puts him in some spectacular company. You go guy.

[Link to the Time 100 Article]

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Asides

Facebook versus WordPress

Interesting quote by Fred Wilson, discussing the relatively small difference in visitors between facebook and wordpress over the past year, and the extremely large difference in their financing amounts: But trust me on this one. The blogging revolution is the adult social network whereas Facebook style social networking is for teens and college kids. This gap will narrow. He is right, of course.

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Security

MFC Thieves

Motor Finance Corporation helped themselves to an extra R3k at the end of last month. Now I have to fight to get it back… What the hell is wrong with these people? How does our banking system allow this? Where are the checks and procedures?

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Freedom

The Voice of Reason?

When Jacob Zuma starts sounding like the voice of reason in the whole Zimbabwe election-stealing saga, you know you’re in trouble.