(10:50:42 AM) Kevin: what i do
(10:50:47 AM) Kevin: is boil the kettle
(10:50:57 AM) Kevin: and break the noodles up into a lunchbox
(10:51:07 AM) Kevin: and put a little bit of the flavouring on
(10:51:11 AM) Kevin: and some extra spice too
(10:51:22 AM) Kevin: and then when the kettle is boiled
(10:51:30 AM) Kevin: i add enough water to cover the noodles properly
(10:51:42 AM) Kevin: and then straight away microwave them for two minutes
(10:51:47 AM) Kevin: then when that's done
(10:51:55 AM) Kevin: i get rid of all the excess water
(10:52:05 AM) Kevin: leaving enough to keep them moist
(10:52:14 AM) Kevin: and i mix the rest of the flavouring in
(10:52:20 AM) Kevin: and some more of the spice
(10:52:31 AM) Kevin: and i chuck a piece of bread on top to have with it
(10:52:33 AM) Kevin: :D
(10:52:37 AM) Kevin: i love it
... Enjoy!!!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Hypnosis..? Power of suggestion..?
Just happened to be walking into Pick n Pay, Fish Hoek this morning/afternoon.. I hear this British accent and my friend and I are intrigued.
It so happens after I went to find out what the event and the festivity was , it's some bloke named Alan Marriott. If you have ever seen Darren Brown you will know what kind of person I am speaking about.
So this guy tells us that he will do a display there and then of a show that he is going to be doing on the 25th.
He whips three cards out of his pocket and tells my friend Richard to pick one, the cards have different shapes on them. Triangle, circle and square. After picking his card Richard is ordered to give me the other two cards he didn't chose and hold the chosen card flat down between his two hands. Then Richard gets told, after some eye staring etc that he is holding the card with the triangle.
Then he does it to the both of us, Richard picks the triangle again and this guy happens to KNOW that Richard MUST be trying to trick him.. he tells Richard this and then suddenly says Richards holding the triangle again. He was right. My turn. I chose the card with a circle, he was right again.
This is where he singled me out and says that when he tells me, I must put my hands behind my back and chose a number with my fingers. Richard stands behind me to make sure that I don't change the fingers I have chosen.
First time round he stares at me, deeply into my eyes and I choose the number two, by default my pointy and middle finger. He guesses two. He was right.
Second time round he tells me to "clear" my mind. I am not the type to really give into these hypnotic types. Anyways, while thinking about other random things, he stares deep into my eyes again and guesses correctly the number which I have chosen. Five.
Trickery? Magic? Skill? Power of suggest? Conscious suggestions? Subconsciously suggesting something to me, in order to subdue my will?
Not sure what to make of it.
It so happens after I went to find out what the event and the festivity was , it's some bloke named Alan Marriott. If you have ever seen Darren Brown you will know what kind of person I am speaking about.
So this guy tells us that he will do a display there and then of a show that he is going to be doing on the 25th.
He whips three cards out of his pocket and tells my friend Richard to pick one, the cards have different shapes on them. Triangle, circle and square. After picking his card Richard is ordered to give me the other two cards he didn't chose and hold the chosen card flat down between his two hands. Then Richard gets told, after some eye staring etc that he is holding the card with the triangle.
Then he does it to the both of us, Richard picks the triangle again and this guy happens to KNOW that Richard MUST be trying to trick him.. he tells Richard this and then suddenly says Richards holding the triangle again. He was right. My turn. I chose the card with a circle, he was right again.
This is where he singled me out and says that when he tells me, I must put my hands behind my back and chose a number with my fingers. Richard stands behind me to make sure that I don't change the fingers I have chosen.
First time round he stares at me, deeply into my eyes and I choose the number two, by default my pointy and middle finger. He guesses two. He was right.
Second time round he tells me to "clear" my mind. I am not the type to really give into these hypnotic types. Anyways, while thinking about other random things, he stares deep into my eyes again and guesses correctly the number which I have chosen. Five.
Trickery? Magic? Skill? Power of suggest? Conscious suggestions? Subconsciously suggesting something to me, in order to subdue my will?
Not sure what to make of it.
Kuki Linux for AAO
So, I've been running gnome and eeebuntu on my AA1 basically since I got it..
I barely even gave Linpus a try, I am not really that much into those Fedora based distros.
The time then came when I realised that eeebuntu was really designed for the eee pc's.. even though it does support the AA1 quite nicely. I also realised that I didn't even really like the whole Gnome thing it had going down.
Gnome just isn't really my thing, it's too bulky and actually quite a bit monlithic. I think that's the perfect word actually. Almost sums Gnome up it it's entirety for me, just a personal thing I think.. I basically feel the same way about KDE too.
When you only have an 8 GB SSD drive who would want something as big as Gnome is anyways, and nice thing about eeebuntu is that it came loaded with Compiz and Open Office, which is nice, and I'd probably want to get Open Office sometime but for now I'm pretty darn pleased with my Kuki Linux installation.
Kuki Linux, basically based on the Kuki kernel from what I understand, specifically for the Acer Aspire One series. Once I had done a little bit of reading on this specific Linux distrobution it really appealed to me that it seemed so VERY lightweight. By default the window manager is Xfce, it comes with most of the Xfce applications packaged with it and it most definitely seems to me like it has a lot more customability for me than what eeebuntu ever had.
On another note, my wireless lights on my AA1 never worked when using eeebuntu, yes there was a hack for that which I just never bothered getting around to, I guess I should've but I just didn't. Now Kuki really impressed me this way.. upon installation wireless worked first time, and so did the lights (yay).. the sound worked 100%. (As a side note, my sound was never PERFECT when it came to eeebuntu, eeebuntu had so many options for my sound drivers and I never really knew specifically which one to use, I think it was ALSA but even once I had that one set.. now and then I would get some weird crackly sounds when playing sounds or music which really isn't what I wanted to hear :()
Right now, using Kuki I just have not heard those crackling sounds once, overall I am really impresseed. It books up really quick due to the fact that the kernel is packaged specifically for the AA1 series. Apparently the battery lasts longer too! Which is truly great.
Seems I have a whole lotta setting up to do from here on out though, in eeebuntu I had my Python setup already going with SPE as my IDE and all. But since I've done the fresh reset with Kuki I guess I really should start setting all that up again and getting my AA1 ready for development...
I barely even gave Linpus a try, I am not really that much into those Fedora based distros.
The time then came when I realised that eeebuntu was really designed for the eee pc's.. even though it does support the AA1 quite nicely. I also realised that I didn't even really like the whole Gnome thing it had going down.
Gnome just isn't really my thing, it's too bulky and actually quite a bit monlithic. I think that's the perfect word actually. Almost sums Gnome up it it's entirety for me, just a personal thing I think.. I basically feel the same way about KDE too.
When you only have an 8 GB SSD drive who would want something as big as Gnome is anyways, and nice thing about eeebuntu is that it came loaded with Compiz and Open Office, which is nice, and I'd probably want to get Open Office sometime but for now I'm pretty darn pleased with my Kuki Linux installation.
Kuki Linux, basically based on the Kuki kernel from what I understand, specifically for the Acer Aspire One series. Once I had done a little bit of reading on this specific Linux distrobution it really appealed to me that it seemed so VERY lightweight. By default the window manager is Xfce, it comes with most of the Xfce applications packaged with it and it most definitely seems to me like it has a lot more customability for me than what eeebuntu ever had.
On another note, my wireless lights on my AA1 never worked when using eeebuntu, yes there was a hack for that which I just never bothered getting around to, I guess I should've but I just didn't. Now Kuki really impressed me this way.. upon installation wireless worked first time, and so did the lights (yay).. the sound worked 100%. (As a side note, my sound was never PERFECT when it came to eeebuntu, eeebuntu had so many options for my sound drivers and I never really knew specifically which one to use, I think it was ALSA but even once I had that one set.. now and then I would get some weird crackly sounds when playing sounds or music which really isn't what I wanted to hear :()
Right now, using Kuki I just have not heard those crackling sounds once, overall I am really impresseed. It books up really quick due to the fact that the kernel is packaged specifically for the AA1 series. Apparently the battery lasts longer too! Which is truly great.
Seems I have a whole lotta setting up to do from here on out though, in eeebuntu I had my Python setup already going with SPE as my IDE and all. But since I've done the fresh reset with Kuki I guess I really should start setting all that up again and getting my AA1 ready for development...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
A new begining...
Let this be known..
If anyone was reading this post asynchronously you would've given up three minutes ago.
Reason being..?
I am starting the transition to the Dvorak keyboard from our good old friend QUERTY.
It feels like amnesia.
But going strong!
More news is that Epistle is up and running, apache, ASDL dual routing & lots more to come!
More posts to follow once I get the hang of the new keyboard layout.
Inspire me.
Post comment if you are a Dvorak brother :)
If anyone was reading this post asynchronously you would've given up three minutes ago.
Reason being..?
I am starting the transition to the Dvorak keyboard from our good old friend QUERTY.
It feels like amnesia.
But going strong!
More news is that Epistle is up and running, apache, ASDL dual routing & lots more to come!
More posts to follow once I get the hang of the new keyboard layout.
Inspire me.
Post comment if you are a Dvorak brother :)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Web Africa's Service
I must say, briefly, that I am rather astounded by Web Africa's service this Saturday afternoon.
I emailed them about 15 minutes ago asking about the local adsl packages, as I'll be setting up a local Debian server for myself pretty soon ! (yay, more blogs about that to come. I'm sure.)
Within two minutes of sending off the query to Web Africa I got a reply, very pleasant mind you.
I will definitely be going with Web Africa when I start buying local gigs, and think about it. Something so simple, won me over...
I just wish that our other service providers were so on top of the game.
Don't you?
I.e. Telkom, and what about Vodacom? hey.. I could spend all day listing 'em!
Either way, let them be an example to the rest and as the mail said:
Have a pleasant weekend!! :)
I emailed them about 15 minutes ago asking about the local adsl packages, as I'll be setting up a local Debian server for myself pretty soon ! (yay, more blogs about that to come. I'm sure.)
Within two minutes of sending off the query to Web Africa I got a reply, very pleasant mind you.
Hi Zachary
Thank you for your inquiry.
"...Does that 10 GB roll over each month? Or if not all used, will the remaining vanish?"
It does not roll over. Ie. You receive 10GB per month regardless of whether you finish it or not.
Please let us know if you have any further questions
Have a pleasant weekend :)
I will definitely be going with Web Africa when I start buying local gigs, and think about it. Something so simple, won me over...
I just wish that our other service providers were so on top of the game.
Don't you?
I.e. Telkom, and what about Vodacom? hey.. I could spend all day listing 'em!
Either way, let them be an example to the rest and as the mail said:
Have a pleasant weekend!! :)
Friday, May 1, 2009
Funny Comparison
I started reading the Google Chrome article on Wikipedia today and when I stumbled on the claim to fame with it's 1.42% of the web browser market share, being the forth most widely used web browser I realized this funny comparison:
MS with it's 66.10% could be almost directly compared to ANC and the politics of this country. I don't entirely have many opinions to back up this claim, but it's just my opinion and the way that my thought processes wrapped around web browsers and politics.
Mozilla Firefox could be compared to the DA with it's 22.48% market share, a very much used web browser by most of the users of the internet that I know.. and a much MUCH better web browser than something like IE. But yet, it's still slowly working it's way to the top, getting there, slowly. A gradual process by winning the souls of the IE users as the discovery of the usability and efficiency of Firefox becomes imminent.
And as I've been using Google's new Chrome at work I've been realizing that it's actually somewhat cool. I love the larger views of the web pages I browse that I have when I use Google Chrome.
But then, with obviously not direct comparison. Let's say that in our little analogy that Google Chrome is Cope. A new and upcoming web browser with only a small percentage share of 1.42% but getting there slowly.
With that said, this post, being all so not too very interesting took me all in all about 2 hours to write whilst doing other things around the house etc.
Was just a funny thought, even funnier for me to hope that maybe DA will have better luck next time ;)
Viva Zuma!
MS with it's 66.10% could be almost directly compared to ANC and the politics of this country. I don't entirely have many opinions to back up this claim, but it's just my opinion and the way that my thought processes wrapped around web browsers and politics.
Mozilla Firefox could be compared to the DA with it's 22.48% market share, a very much used web browser by most of the users of the internet that I know.. and a much MUCH better web browser than something like IE. But yet, it's still slowly working it's way to the top, getting there, slowly. A gradual process by winning the souls of the IE users as the discovery of the usability and efficiency of Firefox becomes imminent.
And as I've been using Google's new Chrome at work I've been realizing that it's actually somewhat cool. I love the larger views of the web pages I browse that I have when I use Google Chrome.
But then, with obviously not direct comparison. Let's say that in our little analogy that Google Chrome is Cope. A new and upcoming web browser with only a small percentage share of 1.42% but getting there slowly.
With that said, this post, being all so not too very interesting took me all in all about 2 hours to write whilst doing other things around the house etc.
Was just a funny thought, even funnier for me to hope that maybe DA will have better luck next time ;)
Viva Zuma!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Parsing and editing HTML
So recently I've started working and I've come across this labourious job so I've decided to write a script.
I'm going to be parsing HTML code and then editing a table within the code and then upload the webpage again to an FTP.
This needs to be done on about 450 websites, although each table the same, each website is different.
I'm using PHP to write this script because I've even been thinking of later on adding a "admin" panel to a script like this, so that you can directly update the content of all 450 websites from one central admin.. :)
All seems to be going well so far. I'm making use of Simple HTML DOM for PHP. Which is just a HTML parser, it's quite nice but I wish that it had the option to actually edit the HTML code too, or at least return the positions of the code within the HTML files.
Now once again, that's just me being lazy, but then again. The reason why am I writing this script is because I AM lazy and I really could not be too very interested in updating 450 sites manually, that is how the process gets done. Manually. No other work around has been found yet. Let's hope that this works :)
So this morning I'm spending time on the FTP part of the script and seeing that each website has about 5 HTML files which need updating each time. I should store those in an array or something. Still thinking and mulling, safe to say, awesome so far.
Was it Marlon who always told me... "A lazy coder is a good coder" ?
Adios ;)
I'm going to be parsing HTML code and then editing a table within the code and then upload the webpage again to an FTP.
This needs to be done on about 450 websites, although each table the same, each website is different.
I'm using PHP to write this script because I've even been thinking of later on adding a "admin" panel to a script like this, so that you can directly update the content of all 450 websites from one central admin.. :)
All seems to be going well so far. I'm making use of Simple HTML DOM for PHP. Which is just a HTML parser, it's quite nice but I wish that it had the option to actually edit the HTML code too, or at least return the positions of the code within the HTML files.
Now once again, that's just me being lazy, but then again. The reason why am I writing this script is because I AM lazy and I really could not be too very interested in updating 450 sites manually, that is how the process gets done. Manually. No other work around has been found yet. Let's hope that this works :)
So this morning I'm spending time on the FTP part of the script and seeing that each website has about 5 HTML files which need updating each time. I should store those in an array or something. Still thinking and mulling, safe to say, awesome so far.
Was it Marlon who always told me... "A lazy coder is a good coder" ?
Adios ;)
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