February 2007 - Posts

0
Comments

Kobus, irony and Lions by hannes

On Friday last week we got a puppy, a 2 month old border collie. My wife called him Kobus, don’t ask my why. Well Kobus kept us busy most of the weekend, not that he’s naughty but because he’s a puppy. Don’t you think it’s ironic that our health minister seems to be very ill from symptoms that remind you of a virus infection that she and her government deny are a problem? Wonder if she is going to take her own advice and try and treat it with traditional medicine, not that we’ll ever know the real...
0
Comments

Building walls by hannes

Well it seems that Trevor has done again a good job of the 2007/2008 budget . With surplus funds and good planning he was able to give most what they wanted. But every day we hear of poor service delivery in government. It’s obviously one thing to get money but another to spend it wisely. Someone jokingly remarked that if we could swop the personal between the departments of the finance and security (Police) we would not have any crime and any taxes. In Europe some lucky guy or girl won a record...
Filed under:
0
Comments

4 out of 5, IE7 and expensive toys with low ROI. by hannes

Well the past weekend was properly one of the best weekends SA rugby had in a long time in the S14. SA teams won 4 of there 5 matches, only the Bulls lost due to there own arrogance. What was exciting was the number of times that the backline players got to run with the ball. The last couple of years SA teams tended to play mostly with there forwards, neglecting the backs. During the weekend I installed IE7 and it really looks much better then IE6. There is much more richness in the pages that are...
Filed under: , ,
0
Comments

Job security by hannes

Question, when do you have job security? Answer, when they ask if you want a name plate for your desk. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
0
Comments

Installing IIS after .Net by hannes

A while back I had to deploy an asp web project and SQL database to a unused test server running on W2000. .Net framework 1.1 and SQL Server 2000 was already installed on the box but it needed IIS. So I installed IIS using W2000 SP4. After releasing the web project and my database I had the funniest errors with permissions on the database. One of my colleges suggested that I re-register ISS and that solved all my problems. C:\WINDOWS\microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe –i Share this...
Filed under: , , ,
0
Comments

Changes and a lack of it. by hannes

For the past couple of days the weather in Cape Town reminded me more of winter than summer. February is supposed to be our warmest months but outside its raining cats and dogs. Last week was presidents Thabo Mbeki’s state of nation speech with the opening of parliament. We all hoped that he would address the crime problem directly but like any good politician he talked a lot but said little to make us hopeful that government is going to do anything about it. I read in the paper that AHI says that...
Filed under: ,
0
Comments

Eskom logic by hannes

1. The government (National Energy Regulator NERSA) is going to penalize Eskom for the electricity problems. 2. The government owns Eskom and is indirectly responsible for the problem because they did not spend anything on the power supply infrastructure for the last couple of years. 3. Eskom will most likely going to get the money now from price increases. 4. The consumers are going to be the ones paying more for less. 5. So how can it be that the government is making money from the there own bugger...
Filed under:
1
Comments

Super 14, governing a fool's paradise and Steve our man. by hannes

The past weekend marked the start of the 2007 Super 14 rugby series. Unfortunately the two teams I support in the series played against each other, the Western Cape Stormers and the Free State Cheetahs . Well the Cheetahs showed why they where crowed the best South African team for the past two years. They beat the Stormers convincingly 27 – 9, scoring tree tries. The Stormers is a team with lots of star players but for some reason for the last couple of years they were unable to play together a...
Filed under: ,
Powered by Community Server (Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems