Out of left field*
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[2010-09-02]
Autonomy Mastery Purpose
(
Tomorrow
)
Support for the Purpose motivator for Secular Humanism
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[2010-08-26]
Athlone cooling towers-shaped hole in the sky
(
Current
)
Something's missing from Cape Town
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[2010-08-24]
The Joule has excellent marketing
(
Tomorrow
Current
)
Optimal Energy has a great website, and cool bumper stickers
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[2010-08-19]
How to extract audio from YouTube
(
Linux
)
The easy way for Linux users
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[2010-08-04]
Matter and space-time
(
Left Field
)
Does matter generate space?
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[2010-07-11]
The Real Winners Of The World Cup
(
Current
)
... and, of course, the real losers.
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[2010-06-29]
Changing User Directory Names In Gnome And KDE
(
Linux
)
Don't like the way Gnome calls it "Documents" instead of, say, "doc"? This is how to fix it.
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[2010-06-15]
Three Reasons Why South Africa Is The Best Country In The Fucking Universe
(
Current
)
The most languages; The best drivers; The best wealth distribution
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[2010-02-01]
Adverts that cross the line
(
Family
Tomorrow
Current
)
"Advertisements should be honest and not abuse consumers' trust or lack of knowledge."
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[2009-11-03]
South Africa Incorporated
(
Tomorrow
Current
)
Having someone ignorant of economics in a position of power where they can affect the economy is possibly just as bad for the potential of this country as having someone with an IQ of 150 laying bricks or mowing the lawn.
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[2009-06-10]
Twitter etiquette question
(
Current
)
Why does it bother me that the avatar pic comes from Stockphoto?
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[2009-05-07]
How to read a winmail.dat file
(
Linux
)
winmail.dat is a package of e-mail attachments meant for Microsoft Exchange clients. Here is how to open it if you are using an Internet mail client on Linux.
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[2009-04-27]
National Service
(
Tomorrow
Current
)
Up until the time when I was a student, the South African government had National Service. This was all about requiring white boys to join the army. But today there are much more important things to promote: rural education and a green society.
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[2009-04-07]
How To grep UTF-16
(
Linux
)
grep won't work. Turns out your file is UTF-16 encoded. Now what?
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[2008-11-05]
Keyboard delay in KDE
(
Linux
)
Some completely unnecessary hairpulling
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[2008-10-14]
Dual-head with ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
(
Linux
)
I had been looking for help with Xinerama and MergedFB. I missed one line in the logs.
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[2008-10-10]
Moving MySQL in Ubuntu
(
Linux
)
Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10 use AppArmor. And AppArmor watches MySQL.
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[2008-06-30]
Dreamsquisher
(
Current
)
Homeopathy is Father Christmas for grownups.
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[2008-06-18]
TOAPBeSFEAAGLaRWoBEUS
(
Family
)
Can you throw out the bath water, but keep the baby?
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[2008-06-06]
Communism or Common Sense
(
Tomorrow
Linux
)
Steve Ballmer has likened Linux to communism, and he has as much affection for open source proponents as President McCarthy had for communists.
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[2008-04-22]
If half the sailors are gone
(
Family
Tomorrow
Current
)
How will the ship weather the storm, if half the sailors are gone?
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[2008-04-17]
Installing Linux from a tar file
(
Linux
)
A logical progression of my VirtualBox post
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[2008-04-12]
Copying from a VirtualBox drive on Linux
(
Linux
)
How to install a virtual machine, and then copy to the real thing
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[2008-02-29]
5FM on Ubuntu Gutsy
(
Linux
)
Listen to 5FM, an "ASX" Internet radio station feed, on Rhythmbox
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[2008-02-05]
Regarding King Zuma
(
Current
)
An e-mail sent to editors at sundaystandard.co.bw
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[2008-02-05]
Preparing for the future
(
Current
)
An e-mail sent to pr and copyright at universaledition.com
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[2008-02-05]
TwinView with TV
(
Linux
)
I plugged my TV into my old nVidia card.
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[2008-01-18]
Elec-a-trocity
(
Current
)
I want more zap sizzle sizzle.
-
[2007-12-18]
"Death Star" Galaxy
(
Left Field
)
Imagine a planet Ort in the less fortunate of the two galaxies.
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[2007-12-17]
"Win" key in KDE
(
Linux
)
Task switching in KDE + CompizFusion
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[2007-11-04]
The Lonely Cow
(
Left Field
)
You remember Ted Bundy? You remember Citizen X? The Unabomber? They are like Mickey Mouse compared to The Lonely Cow. Why? I tell you why. They are all human. And smaller.
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[2007-11-04]
Witching Hour
(
Family
)
It is the hour, or hours, when the Phoenix of Reason is nothing but ash.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_fielder#.22Out_of_left_field.22]
