How can we screw you today?

Monday, April 16th, 2012 10:48 am GMT +2

I’m amazed that more people don’t suffer from depression. I’m feeling it a bit at the moment, and I tend to get “Monday Blues” on the odd occasion. THAT sucks. I really sympathize with people that suffer from long term depression. While there isn’t normally a tangible reason for one suffering from depression – there can be many factors. This time, I can point my accusatory finger towards the local South African government and local big business that seems to have this continual “Screw the consumer” attitude.

If it’s not the petrol price cracking past R11 a litre (That’s ~$5.16 U.S. a gallon), or the government taking a dictator’s stance on forcing “e-tolling” on crucial highways (with majority profits headed outside the country), we have big business throwing price increases and subtle product shrinkage at us (a so-called “double whammy” of price increases).

I have to wonder: What’s the breaking point?

The Thinking Game

Monday, February 6th, 2012 02:14 pm GMT +2

I suppose it's a problem that a lot of people experience - I don't want to claim any kind of uniqueness here. I mean, everybody is an individual (bleat), but I have a real problem with procrastinating about things. I get stuck on the process. HOW you do things. I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that it's not really HOW you do things when it comes to stuff like writing, it matters as long as you can get things done Read More...

iPod Annoyances

Monday, September 12th, 2011 03:05 pm GMT +2

I love my iPod. I mostly use it in the car and while I'm on the train / walking to/from the station. The biggest annoyance with it though, is that while I'm driving, the screen randomly changes from portrait mode to landscape "coverflow" mode, which is fucking annoying, because you can't easily skip tracks in that mode, which means that I either have to live with the currently playing track until I have an opportunity (like stopped at a traffic light) to reach down and orient the iPod so that it switches back to portrait mode, or try stuff with doing that while I'm driving - which is quite stupid and dangerous Read More...

Learning Java #4

Friday, July 29th, 2011 01:55 pm GMT +2

Since Apache James can do pretty much whatever I want it to do, and it would make an excellent base for whatever I might be able to dream up in terms of a filtering MTA, I ended up scrapping the idea of learning Java for a while. (Man, the font in this editor sucks ass after upgrading WP). However, after messing around with my new Android phone for awhile, I figured that a good project would be to write a call/text filtering app Read More...

(Not) Learning Java #3.1

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 10:26 am GMT +2

... and have I done anything since yesterday? No. Big surprise there. Actually, I have another distraction. I bought an Amaz(ing)on Kindle the other day. Loving it to bits... but now I have the severe distraction of organizing the collection of e-books that I have into some semblance of order. Thankfully Calibre seems to be up to the task (along with the Kindle Collections plugin) Read More...

(Not) Learning Java #3

Monday, June 20th, 2011 11:44 am GMT +2

Ah, the bane of my life, procrastination, has struck again. I had the idea to develop a mail filtering server (MTA) that would essentially be a gateway in the email system that would process incoming email and then output it to another (external) MTA, such as a groupware server of some sort, like Exchange, Lotus Notes, or whatever Read More...

Learning Java #2

Friday, May 20th, 2011 10:27 am GMT +2

I've read through some of the tutes on Oracle's site. Completed the annoying Hello World app - it is just me, or are these freaking boring? While I understand what it is trying to do, if you're already familiar with programming, it's pretty damn annoying. And yes, I realize I didn't actually have to do it Read More...


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