Overheard: Q. “What did people use in South Africa before the the days of paraffin lamps and coal stoves?’ A. “Electricity” A Light for the Nation: Does anyone remember the Eskom advert where cities were shown being lit up and gradually illuminating a profile of the continent of Africa? I wonder how many candles that [...]
Judging from their own website, Eskom seems to be a very “admin” heavy organisation with a lot of resources dedicated internally to employee well-being, BEE’ness, staff development and education, as well as externally in corporate social investment. And judging from their atrocious quality of service they seem little concerned with their actual reason for being [...]
This morning I awoke to my Dad shouting and a loud bang. Two young men smashed my drivers window. In the seconds since my Dad spotted “a [deleted] man coming out of the back yard” they’d ripped out my car radio/cd and disappeared. A convenient brick from the back yard did the dirty work. Now [...]
Having asked a friend to check out my new blog I was dismayed to discover that he couldn’t log on because the Scribble Pad didn’t send him a password. Fortunately the solution to this was easily found by browsing the bluehostforum.com (here). All I needed to do was create an email account in my domain [...]
Only the “Elder Gods” at Microsoft HQ know why the world of Microsoft was created thus, but sometimes the system doesn’t let go of a file (when it should!!) and then you can’t move it or delete it. Sometimes you know exactly which programme you last used that may have done this (probably also a [...]
Found another web page designer today. NVU doesn’t do autocompletion and problems getting Amaya to do anything other than crash (even after removing and installing the latest version) so I rubbed my sweaty palms and went hunting. Quanta Plus came to light. Mmmm! First impressions are promising… quick start page structure builder ( dialog to [...]
I’m new to blogging. In fact I’m new to writing down my random thoughts altogether. Never saw the point in keeping a diary – not saying it’s pointless – just that I was unable get into it for the last 30 odd years. Anyhow, I digress. I’m looking at a friends blog and suddenly it [...]
The telecommunications ‘mafia’ (Telkom) have left me shocked and awed at their ineptness. Our company offices have been isolated from the world for 2 days (so far) with no access to our **expensive** ADSL account. No email. No research. I had called the help line and logged a complaint, their agent had said they would [...]
I was determined to give sentech the benefit of the doubt besides the countless complaints about their service on the net, however enough is enough! What a wonderful experience it was to spend an unfruitful hour of my life hunting for the instructions on how to access my sentech email on-line (or, any technical instructions [...]