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 :)

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.

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!! :)

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!