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Nifty opera trick
The way Opera lets you abbreviate searches in the address bar has always been one of my favourite features. For example, if I want to do a Google search on "particles" I can type "g particles" in the address bar (where the URL goes). Opera comes with a number of pre-defined abbreviations for various search engines. Recently, they've introduced a ( Read more... ) -
Oh, by the way, I got a job
Apparently I didn't blog the fact that I recently started a real job. How could I have forgotten? I suppose there's not much to say, as they made me sign an NDA. This is the company. I'm doing embedded systems programming, mainly porting of existing code. It's quite a change from what I've been doing the last 3 years in Comp. Sci., but not ( Read more... ) -
Wheels glorious wheels!
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Call Centre madness
"Standard Bank - Inspired, Motivated, Involved"? "Out of reach" is more like it. Try meeting a consultant at your local branch, and then getting in touch with that person again. All the branches use one call centre number - that's what's listed in the telephone directory too. Try missing a call from the consultant, who leaves a message from a " ( Read more... ) -
Blast from the past
I just discovered Gavan's gallery of the London Symphony Orchestra concert I attended in 2005.
EDIT: corrected URL - thanks rooijan -
Getting my feet wet
Hmmm...2007... /me dips foot in the water... Feels OK... /me jumps in with splash. SPLASH!!!!
Belated HNY to all! -
Hello world
ADSL rocks! After surprisingly good service from Telkom this morning, and a few calls to Webafrica, I'm now a proud ADSL user. All in all a pretty painless exercise. DUM DUM DUM -
Last post from dialup? And other unrelated things
This may be my last post from a dialup connection. My ADSL order was confirmed 11 days ago, and today I was told that they're coming on Friday to install it. I got a nice router from Thusa via Karnaugh and his boss and I'm going to get a WebAfrica account. /me tingles with excitement ( Read more... )
