Well, I’m here at Smartsource (in the Novell building at Morningside Wedge Office Park) where they are hosting a mass Linux LPI certification event – a conspiracy to take over the world (ok, maybe just South Africa for now) dreamt up by the folks at Afribiz.
I’ve just finished LPIC102, and did LPIC101 this morning, and [...]

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So despite my Computicket debacle I still got my hands on a ticket to see Danko Jones at the Doors nightclub in Edenvale on Saturday. In all honesty the tickets weren’t that difficult to get hold of – the place was relatively empty but filled up enough to make it worthwhile.
16Stitch opened with a strong [...]

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Computicket, “South Africa’s leading ticket booking site” (?? say what?) has changed their online transactions system so that credit card payments are no longer secure when purchasing a ticket online. (And its not a “secure frame inside an insecure window” thing either.)
Furthermore, according to their “Terms and Conditions”
‘1.1 By purchasing tickets via this website, you [...]

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I happened upon the CD store over lunch and picked up a couple of new CD’s to add to the iPod collection. (Yes I do sometimes actually buy music, even though the record companies don’t deserve it.)
As it turned out one of the CDs is Live’s “Awake – the best of Live”. And then it [...]

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It’s day’s like these when I contemplate just forgetting about it and giving my brain to science – perhaps they can do something more useful and less frustrating with it.

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