Well Virgin Money is still not accepting applications. Monday saw the same message as what is being displayed today. Yesterday on the other hand the site was just broken.
It appears that like me the rest of South Africa knows how badly we’re being shafted by the big four and sees …

Unless you fell down and got stuck in a crevasse in the middle of nowhere you should have noticed that Virgin is attempting to enter two “fiercly competitive�? (*laugh*) markets, namely those of cellular operators and banking.
Virgin’s recently launched credit card offering (Virgin Money) is actually pretty competitive, at least …

So my host (du0 networks) was kind enough to “joinâ€? my domains. This saves me the hassle of having to figure out why the site redirections and CNAME records I added weren’t working properly. I believe the .org domain is just a symlink of the .net domain, so my domains …

Ok, so I finally migrated my blog.
It only took Dataspace 7 days to submit my domain transfer application and then ZANiC another 15 to process the request.
So that explains the absence of posts on my blog.
Everything has been moved over and should mostly be working, if someone finds anything broken please leave …

Dataspace kinda went pop a few weeks back. My blog went offline and nothing was working. I received no notification whatsoever and only on going back to their site did I discover what had happened — they are now netprazision or some such.
Ok, so I have 50MB of storage; certainly …

Yes, as the title suggests I upgraded. What did I upgrade? Well that would be wordpress of course. Outwardly I guess the changes are so minute as to be insignificant (can you spot the changes?).
Nonetheless the new version (2.0) is a vast improvement over the version I was previously using (1.5.1); …

So DataSpace got a new HDD in one of their servers (I found this out by reading the forums… no notification or anything). One would think that when swapping out a HDD that you would take an immediate backup of all the clients content. Needless to say, when I checked …

Back in March I signed up for a 20twenty bank account and have been quite happy with it. Considering I’m online 24/7 using a bank which is marketed as an internet/online bank was quite appealing at the time (though all banks have inet banking these days) since it would be …

Link.
Pretty insightful entry regarding Google Talk and the mess that is instant messaging; it only serves to confirm what I’ve been thinking all along.
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Link 2.
More GTalk related blogging.

Over the last couple of months I’ve been looking at cellphones with particular attention being paid to the smartphone variety due to the possible direction my job might take. Smartphones are few and far between, most of them are either lacking features or they are just plain ugly, and then …