Over the past week three independent sources have shown up with the words “hayibo.com” on their lips. Hayibo’s got a great flavour of satire to their stuff – just enough humour but almost believable when taken in the african context… Check it out.
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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.
And we’re back, after a server operating system upgrade. We seem to have come through relatively unscathed, except for a first-time broken reprovision attempt and GoDaddy‘s attempts to extort $25 out of me for a user name/password combo that I did not fuck up…
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I hate Christmas in November
Why is it that we are forced to deal with Christmas decorations and advertisements starting in October already? It really amplifies the commercial aspect of Christmas, and by the time Christmas comes the shit has already fallen down or we’ve seen the ad a million times. Bah humbug.
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Here are a couple of quotes from Richard Thieme’s newly launched blog (http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/). This is the guy whose writing inspired me to realise that I truly am a hacker.
“when you finally have a book in print, it’s absolutely humbling to be bitch-slapped by Walter the Farting Dog”
“The challenge is to live in niches, not surrender entirely in the face of the rage and storm of the world, and remind each other quietly in the night what matters most.”
I look forward to more blogging from him.
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Telkom is still suing Hellkom – yes the rich bastards sent a fat legal document to Gregg Stirton of Hellkom.co.za. Nothing like wasting exorbitant profits on legal expenses to squash the little guy.
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It seems as though there may be no more Grand Prix broadcasts on the public broadcaster… SABC has failed us again…
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Linux Uptime – 102 days for dewberry.co.za
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In other news, what I thought was a great technology idea (I’m not at liberty to disclose) was not entirely original… just goes to show that there’s nothing new under the sun.
And workwise – finally kernel 2.6.9 supports LSI Logic MegaRAID – that should destroy a few headaches.
Gentoo Rocks!