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Recently I upgraded my phone to a Nokia N81. I set up my Zyb account, and sync'd my contacts, and realised that I could not schedule syncs like I had with my SE w810i. Until this morning, when Russell pointed out on IRC that there was a tool for that exact thing: Swim is a utility for automatic periodic synchronization of data with internet servers. It is part of the opensource project called Bergemot. The only hurdle is that you have to get the SIS file signed by the Open Signed Online and when you install it you are presented with a warning that your phone may turn into a lump of metal because you are using Software In Development. Works fine for me though.

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In a week we are moving houses. We have a list of things that need to be sorted before we move. So, one of the things on the list is moving our phone line/ADSL. I have a one price ADSL from cybersmart so I can take advantage of their Night Rider plan. Little did I know, paying for our ADSL portion from another supplier was something Telkom Just Couldn't Handle during a transfer.

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It is my current desktop, feel free to do what you want with it (you can even click on it and download it).

I made it for my dual head 1280x1024 set up at work. The animals pictured inhabit our bathroom at home.

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Weather SA is promoing it's new and "contemporary" website. Twitter has been a-filled with comments about exactly how badly the new website has been executed (maimed, murder, or vomitted would be equally applicable). A friend mailed them with some very terse comments, and of course they got defensive, believing the lie they had created for themselves that "We hv jst creat'd and AWESOME website!!!11!!!1".

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It has struck me for a while that South Africa, and generally Africa (See Jonathan's mention of Ghana in this post), has a problem with with wrapping stuff up in what I call Internal Knowledge. I define Internal Knowledge as the knowledge needed to operate within a system which is inaccessible (or poorly accessible) without that knowledge.

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Bidorbuy has offered me The Chance to win Three Hundred South African Rands by blogging about how much I think a car will be auctioned for. I personally think it will be auctioned for One Million South African Rand.

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Yesterday I posted about how a local web company recently sold the work of a well known, local, independent web professional. What they did broke netiquette, ethics, and definitely copyright law. Much geek froth and outrage occurred, and a tiny storm broke out on the internet. I jumped on the bandwagon with my post because:

1. I have SIWOTI syndrome
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I was excited this morning when I read on Green Cars about Optimal energy's re-designed website. They recently launched their electric car the 'Joule'. Except when I clicked through to the optimal energy site it looked awfully familiar. Apparently this didn't escape Damien Du Toit (the owner of the coda identity).

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Finley very much enjoys when we play Modest Mouse (usually very loud), and goes nuts for a track called 'The View'. He dances like crazy and screams a lot (in a lets tear the roof off this party kind of way).

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So, I have been on teh internets for a while, I have been a member of many mailinglists, chatted on irc, etc. etc. So maybe I have a more attuned sense of the social norms of the internet. Years ago a bunch of script kiddies had a mailing list called KiDDiESoc, KiDDiESoc was great, at it's peak it had traffic in the region of 100 messages per day. Between maybe 15 people. Many of these messages were what can only be called spam. Spam and baggy pantsing. We had arguments about top, bottom, and inline posting.

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