Hey,

So if you ever visit my site you will see that the design has been changing bit by bit. I’m in the progress of updating the design but my way. Which mean as much done with code rather than images and hacks.

If the site looks a mess, that means I have got to your browser yet. I’m focusing on the ones I have easy access to at the moment which is Safari, Chrome and Firefox, all on Mac. Firefox on mac is not 100% either, the rounded corners look horrible.

My Plan is that once I have complete the design site, with the way I’m doing it. I will then start working on the other browsers.

I will let everyone know once done and maybe even write a post about all the tricks.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

u&me Coffee Shop

210 Long Street, Same little mail as the hemp shop.

There is also one corner loop & strand.

I like this method so just getting it down so I remember.

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$counter = 0;
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< table >
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< tr< ?php echo (!($counter++ & 1) ? "class='even'" : "") ? > >
< td>Echo Item< /td>
< /tr>
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< /table >


Does my title make sense? I don’t know, I was just looking at how Facebook plans to take over the internet, think its similar to the way M$ did it but hey, I haven’t really thought about this. I think its about time I started learning the FB API more, maybe get a few hacks into my system.

The web is changing, being a simple php developer might not cut it one day and I wanna stay on top. I’m not saying I wanna follow the trend but I don’t want to be the last one to the party either.

The internet was originally a place of information, not it is our lives, the more time I spend chatting to friends on it, the more I hate it. There used to be a good source of information but now it seems like junk that looks cool but is bloody useless.

The more time spent chatting to ‘friends’ the less time I spend with my friends. I got virtually over 700 friends but I can touch no more than 5.

You might be gathering from this that even though I spend more hours in front of a computer and love using it, that I don’t like them. I truly have a love/hate relationship with them and its also unstable.

I’m always learning more about them and enjoy playing with them to the max but now that every tom, dick and harry sit on them instead of talking face to face, they drive me crazy. I am no longer alone enjoying the alone time.

Do you remember the sound of dial up, do you remember having a book with landline phone numbers in it? Those were my favorite days. To learn something new was a challenge and very few people had any clue what you were talking about.

IRC was the best thing around and the meetings were you could put a face and name to a nick was the best thing in the world.

The distance between reality and the virtual world was great and I loved having the two lives. Now they are one and I’m not sure who I am anymore. I’m also not sure who anyone is anymore.

How many friends do you have? Can you touch them? Can you hold them in a time of need?

Every wanted someone to invest in you as a person? I have, think about it. You have start ups that get investors to keep them going till they start making money. Would that not be cool to have in your life? Some pays you to do what ever your are good at till you figure out how to make a bucket load of cash.

Sounds good hey, I’ve seen it happen with some guys who’s parents pay for everything till they start making money. It worked for them and most of them have made it really good now. True they are hard workers and not all of them have really done very well, the lazier of the lot are still living of mommy & daddy.

Any way, would love to know if this type of thing happen between complete strangers, if you know of something let me know.

I’ve come across this topic so many times and I thought I write a little post with my two cents on the topic.

Well, as a web developer I use, wait for it… every browsers.. yes when it comes doing any html/css/javascript I test on all of them. That’s my first thought on the subject and the reason I say this, well if your debugging javascript and it works on your lovely Firefox / Chrome / Safari but not on your IE (shudders) then what you going to do? Go and tell all the users they have to use anything but IE or are you going to use IE to debug?

I use Safari for most of my development process. Its fast and reliable on my machine (PowerBook G4). Every now and again I need some extra fetchers that I will find on Firefox that I will use. You might find me using Firefox a bit more if it didn’t run so slow on my laptop. That would be my point in the end of this. What ever runs best on your machine and has the required plug-ins is the best browser. Running a browser that is 3 times slow than another because its the best browser is not a good idea.

Find out which browsers runs best on your machine, make sure its got the required plug-ins for what you are doing and use it. That is the best browser to use. get it? got it? good.

So with the joy’s of the web come everyone having the ability to publish what ever they want and to send information out to the world without confirming they are doing the correct thing.

I have been thinking about this for some time now. My original plan for this web site was to try and improve my writing skills with the opinion of comments left behind but that seems to be a dead end. It has also been coming up in mails I see been sent out by famous people who are not marketing/copywriters but have a great list of people to advertise to.

The main thing I have noticed is people at the end of a message saying ‘Please join’ or ‘Please come’ or just anything with please in it gets me. Using that word just seems like they are begging people to do something instead of making them want to do something.

I see this as bad marketing but since I am not a Marketing person I can be incorrect with this but I would like to hear from people who actually write/sell for a living to know what the correct words should be.
For example changing:

‘Please join me at this event’
to
‘Join me at this event or regret it forever…’

To me, the first one is begging people to come where the second is saying its your problem if you don’t come.

I hope to get some feed back from this little post but till then I will keep reading the web for my answers..

Have a great day :)

So I have taken up a new mission to find the best place to have coffee in Cape Town. So far Primi in the waterfront and All the Vida E Cafe are tops on my list but there are still many places to go.

I’m hoping I will find a secret little place that just has a great cup of coffee will come up. The search does not include type of place as I hardly ever sit down and drink it. I will start looking for the best place to sit and have coffee but right now I just wanna good cup of coffee.

Yes, I finally got my account back…

My Brain felt more relaxed though, when i didn’t have the account… Think I should do some research on the effects on the human brain when it comes to information overload.

Have a great weekend.

Just thought I’d post this as its a useful little thing to get some space back.

If your like me and use a Apple Mac and connect to a lot with windows users, you’ll find Windows System files on your machine from time to time. They are no use on a mac and really just take up space on your hard drive.

Not really bother about them, if I came across one and felt like deleting it I would but in general I would just leave it.

Today however, I ran a little command line to remove all of them from my hard drive.

I didn’t think about the space it would free up, just that I wouldn’t have any of them left to bother me.

Once the command was finished, I noticed that it cleared up just under 400MB of space. This was a very nice surprise.

So if you want to give your mac a little clean, open Terminal and type in:

find ./ -name Thumbs.db -exec rm -fr {} \;

Just remember to be careful of executing command line functions. If your not 100% sure about this maybe ask someone to double check for you.

Once these files are removed, you’ll never get them back unless you wanna fork out a bunch of cash.

Well enjoy the rest of your day.

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