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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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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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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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I have a little theory I have been working on, it is probably dead obvious to some people, but it only crystalised in my head relatively recently. I have had a few ideas in my time (so far none have made it to the real world), and in mentally stepping through these ideas I have started to refine my methods of evaluating an idea. One of the mental tests I have been using recently is:

Does this idea:

1. Help some business/cross section of people do what they do, more efficiently/economically?
2. Would the technology associated to my idea help me act more efficiently in an environment of competition?
3. Or, does this idea earn me income by facilitating other people earning income

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I saw this on B-List and I am not one to stop the marching hoardes of an internet meme about geeky stuff.

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
  103   ls
   67   cd
   62   vim
   48   svn
   23   sudo
   21   ssh
   18   mysql
   16   date
   13   xrandr
   11   mv

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I have never wanted to really start a meme, or a blogmob, but this guy is a real tonsil. I initially heard about him when Mandy forwarded an email he sent to the linuxchix mailinglist. Basically he feels that womens rights, feminism, etc. are all things which should disappear. You can see some pearler work by him on the debian-woman mailing list, here (there are a few posts by him, just look for his name).

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