Microsoft Answers

Came across this little gem on pcdoctors.co.za, one of the forums I lurk on. This is what happens when you ask what can only be a truly uninformed question on a technical board: Hard Drive Weight Gain

Say what?!

This must be some kind of joke, surely? Ars Technica, a web site that keeps track of events in the technology world, reports that a woman in the states has been convicted in a civil case for pirating 24 songs. For this, the jury awarded the music company a $1.92 million payout. That’s in the region of $80,000 per song! What the hell?! (External Link to Ars Technica Article Here)

A friend of mine is starting a nre blog: http://herofactory.wordpress.com/

Old Friends

I connected up with an old friend via facebook; turns out he’s an illustrator (which isn’t surprising considering his school career), and I was amazed to recognise some of his work, especially in magazines like Men’s Health.

I see that he does a cartoon with his brother, awesome. Here is one that I really enjoyed: http://www.thewesternnostril.co.za/page/7/

Apple Fscking iTunes

Apple iTunes, the worlds most popular media player is kak.

Let me explain. I was listening on 5FM about the performance of one of the American Idols and how he had done Michael Jacksons Black and White to, well, metal. That to me sounded awesome, what with me being a metal head and all. So I popped along to the Apple iTunes website to go and see if I could snaffle it. Hmm, no links, just link to download iTunes – and the graphic shows the American Idols thing in the Apple iTunes Store from within iTunes. No problem, I’ll download it.

Zuma, Zille and the ANCYL

Just got three quick things to say about this entire farce.

1. Helen Zille hasn’t claimed anything against Jacob Zuma that hasn’t been discussed in a court of law. Zuma had, by his own admission, unprotected sex with a HIV positive woman. On the assumption that Zuma has, inter alia,  a normal physical relationship with his numerous wives he would have been placing them at risk. The ANCYL instead postulates that the reason for Zille appointing an all male cabinet is such that she may engage in illicit sex acts with them. Not only is this unfounded, but it is purposefully derogatory and one could indeed say slanderous. Once again this shows that the ANCYL has no sense in dealing with opposition and believe in dictatorship and totalitarianism more so than the concept of opinion.
2. Helen Zille seriously needs to get over Zuma. The best methodology of opposition is success. Instead of continuing on about how bad Zuma is, instead show how good you are by succeeding in your goals for the Western Cape. Zuma, the same applies – prove your opponents wrong not by successfully gaining the seat of the Presidency and lauding the fact over your detractors; instead now succeed, and prove all your doubters wrong.
3. Perhaps, considering the infusion of sex into politics, Zille and Zuma should have intercourse – a fine method of showing racial unity and political togetherness. In the world of Reality Television and Public Information perhaps they should podcast this illicit act and make it available to Joe Public. I am sure that sales in butane and diesel will sky rocket as individuals rush out to purchase so that they can wash the profane images from their minds.

Sucka for Punishment

I’m pretty sure that some people must think that I am a sucker for punishment. Maybe I just like shiny things. Why this? I just installed Windows 7 RC 1 onto my notebook.

The EULA says that I’m not allowed to use it in an actual production environment, but I don’t have the infrastructure to load it onto a spare notebook for testing purposes. So I am going full steam ahead. It’s installed on my notebook and I will be using it until I can’t anymore to see if it is going to work and what issues arise.
My first issue is Daemon Tools doesn’t work on it, but that was a simple download to fix. All in all, however, I have noted that it is using less RAM that Vista was (RAM Gadget is showing 30% RAM usage compared to average of 42% in Vista) as well as a definite snappiness to it.
It doesn’t hurt that there is also a South African Theme for this rooinek.
So far so good. More to come.

Random Thought

The human form is beautiful,
Human nature is not.

Mobile Intelligence – Finally!

I’m very glad to hear that the leading mobile manufacturers have finally agreed to a standard interface for power charging for their mobile phones. I’m especially pleased to hear that they’re considering the micro-usb interface which many cellphones already have. Hopefully they’ll take a bit more intelligence and allow multiple uses for the interface, which would hopefully include charging from your notebook. It would be fantastic to do away with all the different cables that come for mobile phones. Ideal solution: a single micro-usb interface for charging and interfacing with a notebook / workstation. Surely that would lead to reduced costs and increased effeciency on their production line?

Story from ITWeb here: Mobiles to have same charging socket.

I think I’m Obsolete…

As you can tell from this blog, and from yesterday’s post, I like to play around with programming code, such as visual basic, c#, and web languages like HTML, and JavaScript. By no means do I consider myself a programmer, not like Mook, but I do know my way around. So you can imagine my chagrin when I ran across this article on zdnet.com:

This kid is 9, he’s written an iPhone App that has been downloaded 4,000 times. He’s fluent in 6 programming languages, and is busy designing his own computer game for the iPhone.

What.

The.

Hell?!

Nine Year Old Whizkid Writes iPhone App