Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Just fired up C# Express, which I downloaded ages ago, thinking I'd try to cruft together a prototype blogging client. Here's what I got:
I couldn't do much other than Exit, as I'm on a plane. No C# writing for me today... guess I'll fire up Eclipse and keep trying to ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
slight billing glitch on my part left the georgeconard.com offline for the last day or so... that's fixed and we seem to be back up and running...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
From the google.co.za page
Google.co.za offered in: Afrikaans Sesotho IsiZulu IsiXhosa
And as a random aside, being 10 hours ahead of my normal time zone really exacerbates my night-owl tendencies...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
...from the last 24 hours in South Africa
My mantra, repeated continuously whilst driving here: "Drive on the left, Drive on the left, Drive on the left"
An important corollary to the above is "I'm sitting on the right" so that I override the muscle memory trying to gauge my ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
So I just noticed an extremely interesting shift in my mental state. I spent the day today in Cape Town and environs almost completely off the grid, starting with a delightful meeting with Caron from Sadalbari (a small tech firm here that focuses on open source technologies and is doing some ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Jetlagged or not, there's something pretty awesome about waking up in Cape Town... pleasantly warm, sunny skies, good coffee, and I'm just always happy to be in one of my favorite cities. Off to meetings and then either to take the cable car up to the top of Table Mountain ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Haven't seen full details yet but looks like a pair of earthquakes hit eastern DRC and western Rwanda overnight... as if they don't already have enough to deal with.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
In the end, I made it onto the flight from Jo'burg to Cape Town tonight and that is a huge relief. I still have to navigate late night car rental at the airport (I think), find my hotel, and be lively for a 10 AM meeting after having slept very ...
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