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 :)
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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 ;)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Political Compass
I read about the political compass on my friend Marlon's blog and decided to do the test myself.
More posts for the future ;)
More posts for the future ;)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
PHP thoughts
Oh my how time flies. It's been ages since I've created my last blog post already.
I've recently been looking into some PHP. I'm thinking of creating my main personal
site with my most beginner's knowledge of it. It seems quite handy and quite interesting after viewing some source code. (Marlon's sourcery.co.za source code)
More to come.
I've recently been looking into some PHP. I'm thinking of creating my main personal
site with my most beginner's knowledge of it. It seems quite handy and quite interesting after viewing some source code. (Marlon's sourcery.co.za source code)
More to come.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
All your thoughts are belong to us
How about computers reading our thoughts ? Possibility maybe ?? Or absolute impossible nonsense? Would be interesting though wouldn't it ? I watched a program briefly on television recently about it and then today I was just doing some reading here and there about the tests and whatever else that has been done. It's all quite interesting actually but many people, (myself included) think that it could be quite far-fetched.
Now that could be the case but just imagine a future where every thought process that you ever think could be read. If we add a bit of cellphone to whichever device we would use for reading thoughts. We could have telepathy enabled by downloading the latest xyz update. Thus we wouldn't need speech anymore. That could get quite tricky when in a crowd, reading everyones thoughts. If our thoughts could be read and we could read thoughts that would mean that thoughts could be given to us too. I suppose?
Or think about this. It's a lovely autumn afternoon and you decide to do a little bit of shopping at the local supermarket. As you walk in the door all the current specials get bluetoothed directly to you. You get told information like, what items are for sale on special and at what cost. You get told which isle the item is in and if you are really lost you could program your self installed GPRS system to tell you the very co-ordinates of where the item should be and it could direct you there. "Ten steps forward then turn 30 degrees to the left, another 3 steps and jump up and down a few times.." or maybe not exactly like that but something like that. Anyways, another idea means another paragraph.
Passwords. You could enter your passwords through thoughts which then means that it would be much harder for anyone else to find out your password, unless you think your password out 'loud' to everyone, which would be rather silly. But even then, surely, through your thoughts you could be identified as you, as everyones brain is different. Or something like that. I don't know too much about the scientific details behind this whole idea but it interests me nonetheless.
Surely if our thoughts can be read that means that possibly through our brains our bodies could be regulated too? Or maybe that wasn't the right word but I mean something like 'checked or monitored' in some way. Like maybe organs could be checked and their lifespan could be recorded. Which could then mean that you could be notified when you are about to get sick. And if the lifespan of our organs are known, maybe this could then be used to estimate how many years we have left to live? Ha-ha! What then could mean that possibly one day when you are very old and ready to die in the future you'd get some kind of mail delivered to you with a sheet of your life statistics. Displaying things like 'how many seconds you've slept', 'how many times you've blinked' and etc etc.
All this actually sounds pretty strange and futuristic to me but then again the telephone or cellphone idea was probably pretty strange to someone else back in the eighteen hundreds, he just couldn't blog about it ;)
possible?
Now that could be the case but just imagine a future where every thought process that you ever think could be read. If we add a bit of cellphone to whichever device we would use for reading thoughts. We could have telepathy enabled by downloading the latest xyz update. Thus we wouldn't need speech anymore. That could get quite tricky when in a crowd, reading everyones thoughts. If our thoughts could be read and we could read thoughts that would mean that thoughts could be given to us too. I suppose?
Or think about this. It's a lovely autumn afternoon and you decide to do a little bit of shopping at the local supermarket. As you walk in the door all the current specials get bluetoothed directly to you. You get told information like, what items are for sale on special and at what cost. You get told which isle the item is in and if you are really lost you could program your self installed GPRS system to tell you the very co-ordinates of where the item should be and it could direct you there. "Ten steps forward then turn 30 degrees to the left, another 3 steps and jump up and down a few times.." or maybe not exactly like that but something like that. Anyways, another idea means another paragraph.
Passwords. You could enter your passwords through thoughts which then means that it would be much harder for anyone else to find out your password, unless you think your password out 'loud' to everyone, which would be rather silly. But even then, surely, through your thoughts you could be identified as you, as everyones brain is different. Or something like that. I don't know too much about the scientific details behind this whole idea but it interests me nonetheless.
Surely if our thoughts can be read that means that possibly through our brains our bodies could be regulated too? Or maybe that wasn't the right word but I mean something like 'checked or monitored' in some way. Like maybe organs could be checked and their lifespan could be recorded. Which could then mean that you could be notified when you are about to get sick. And if the lifespan of our organs are known, maybe this could then be used to estimate how many years we have left to live? Ha-ha! What then could mean that possibly one day when you are very old and ready to die in the future you'd get some kind of mail delivered to you with a sheet of your life statistics. Displaying things like 'how many seconds you've slept', 'how many times you've blinked' and etc etc.
All this actually sounds pretty strange and futuristic to me but then again the telephone or cellphone idea was probably pretty strange to someone else back in the eighteen hundreds, he just couldn't blog about it ;)
possible?
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