Taken verbatim from an email I sent to a programmer's mailing list I'm on:

I have decided that the only way for me to finally get around to ( Read more... )

Complete at least two maths courses from MIT's OpenCourseWare, one refresher of stuff I should already know and one of new stuff. Also perhaps a CS/EE course or two.

This evening I was in the rather odd (for me) position of being physically wide awake but mentally drained enough that I didn't actually want to think. Since I've heard about LibraryThing from a couple of places now, I thought I'd sign up and add the few books I have with me in Cape Town. My catalogue is still a little empty (only 20 books in it ( Read more... )

First off, happy new year and all that. I begin this year with the same question I have begun the previous few: where the hell is my flying car? We are getting deeper into the realms of the science fiction movies, TV shows and books I have consumed voraciously since the late eighties. A substantial subset of these depicted the future of the ( Read more... )

Plans for switching data providers proceed apace, with a query on MTN's web form:

I am considering switching from a Vodacom 3G package to MTN. However, I ( Read more... )

This post is a conversation I had with a few people online, prompted by a blog post by Colin.

The conversation is behind a cut because it's rather lengthly. I wrote a fun little Ruby script to convert the logs into pretty html that I'll probably put up on my website soon.

( Give me the conversation, already! )

My submission to their online complaints system:

The online booking system performs incredibly and unnecessarily poorly ( Read more... )

This is a followup to my previous Vodacom rant.

Good day ( Read more... )

Two recent trends in web-based advertising have just gotten up my nose to the point where I am ready to LART the people responsible. Unfortunately, they're widespread enough that effective LARTing is impractical ( Read more... )

I finally got around to poking at my 3G router to figure out why the hell the "Connect" button on the web interface was always greyed out. Here's the email, sent from Vodacom's web interface. Note, in particular, the disclaimer on the top of the page source...

Good day ( Read more... )