Eye Witness News (ewn.co.za) has a few issues.
First let me say that I like the idea of a new, fresh news site… EWN could quickly become a serious player in the news arena, but before they do so they’re going to need to fix a few issues. I sent an...
View ArticleThere is no cure for stupidity.
A while ago I blogged about a weird comment I had received on one of my blog posts. In summary, there is an SEO company called SEO Results (aka BizSearch, aka NetAge) that gets its staff to trawl blogs...
View ArticleVisualising the Interest Rate
I though it might be interesting to try and graph the Reserve Bank’s prime rate data… It goes back a long way. I used Python to scrape and collate the data and PyCha to generate the graph. UPDATE: I’ve...
View ArticleQuick and Simple Server SMTP
I have a number of servers that I look after in various places on the intertubes. I like to have things like MDADM (Linux software RAID manager) be able to mail me when the something goes wrong like a...
View ArticleThere is no spoon – The challenge of unlimited bandwidth in a limited world.
Change is constant. With increased international capacity it was inevitable that ISPs would eventually enter a price war. It was MWEB, a traditionally not-so-forward-thinking ISP, who shot first....
View ArticleContent and delivery.
Recently a friend who’s in the magazine industry was complaining about how their company (who is a very large media company) continually cut the magazine budgets while spending gob-loads of money on...
View ArticlePystack and Djangoverflow
A while back I was chatting with Brad and said “Someone should create a Twitter feed of popular Stack Overflow questions“. I think he said “Yes, someone should“. Later that night I created @pystack...
View ArticleDanny the capturer of the world.
Many years ago I worked at company that sold widgets. These widgets were very complicated and required lots of customisation. The company had developed a pretty large piece of software to help their...
View Article20 Pieces of Startup Advice I Should Have Posted A Long Time Ago
Disclaimer: I am not a successful tech entrepreneur, so you probably shouldn’t read this. Build what people need and build it in the quickest and easiest (read hackiest) way possible that is barely...
View ArticleRDM630 125KHz RFID reading with the Arduino Mega 2560 R3
This howto is for the RDM630 125Khz RFID module – UART board. Seeedstudio and Spec Sheet. There are a few chunks of code on the internet that will get the RDM630 up and running on an Uno, but those...
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