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Customer care

Any South African readers with iBurst as an ISP will relate to the following. Anyone else may be utterly disinterested in this post, so the rational choice would be to move right along, maybe to the ever-excellent Pharyngula…

SA Blog Awards 2006

Caught onto this a little late. But any avid readers/writers of blogs should note that nominations are open (until Feb 17) in various categories, and that only the 10 most-nominated blogs in each category go through to voting. So if you want to boost a favourite site’s traffic, check the Awards site out. In the [...]

Fresh software

Microsoft has finally incorporated tabbed browsing in IE, and seeing as I’m occasionally still forced to use IE (for Windows Updates and the like, this seems worth trying - get IE7, beta 2 if you want to check it out. And Wordpress 2.1 is also out, fixing 114 bugs found in 2.0. I’m still holding off on the upgrade until it’s confirmed as fully functional and stable, but if you want it, get it here.

These things may happen

Now, I know that I’ve had most of a bottle of wine. And very little food to accompany it. So it’s possible that I may be feeling more aggrieved than I normally would. But the server on which this site, and two other sites I manage, is hosted has been down for around 8 hours [...]