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Mobile Number Portability [South African]

I've been looking forward to the recent introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in South Africa, which allows mobile subscribers to switch operators without changing numbers and which will allow us to switch to MTN , for two reasons : I used to have a minor annoyance with the Vodacom network...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-28-2006
Java for Monkeys

Some lunch time humor with Java on the Uncyclopedia :P "The <Java> Garbage Collector does not always work, though. If it worked properly it would have eaten every Java program ever written years ago." and "There's no point in trying to explain how Java works: You either just know somewhere deep...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 05-16-2006
Toolbox.Add()

Some useful links I've been meaning to post in the last couple of days but never got around to... TimeSnapper It's been a while since I first read about TimeSnapper on Leon Bambrick's Secretgeek and it's been getting quite a bit of coverage in the blogosphere lately. I've been using it for a couple of...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 01-27-2006
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From the Channel9 forums, some flashbacks on the web a couple of years back. Report From a 1994 Web Usability Study Sites include HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sun and Time-Warner sites. Check out Microsoft's classic 1994 site... Internet Archives Archived copies of popular websites. Some real classics. powered...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 12-07-2005
Google Desktop - Non Admin

I've been working with a non-administrative user for the past month or so and now for the first time ran into an issue with something not working. I installed the updated Google Desktop with the Sidebar and without administrative privileges it can't install. So had to up my user to an admin, install...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-17-2005
Blogging Dinner Date

[UPDATE: Any time from 18h00 onwards!!!] After hours of counting and recounting of the votes it seems that Blueberry Grill on Thursday the 23rd of June would be the venue for the next Johannesburg Blogging Dinner. There's a map to the venue on the site and below is a calendar entry with the address as...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 06-20-2005
Blogging Dinner IV

Or BDEIV for those who follow the light sabres... It's been a while since the last Johannesburg blogging dinner (yet again) and there's several new bloggers here as well as other Gauteng based bloggers. So it might be a good idea to have another one before the winter sets in completely (if it hasn't...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 05-31-2005
The Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything

“h2g2's inspiration came from Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Back in 1971, Douglas imagined a time when we'd have hand-held electronic devices that could access information about almost any place, object, time or event. This vision is now a reality in the form of...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 05-28-2005

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