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Hello Blog… been awhile

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Life has been hectic, in many different ways. Still in need of finishing the design/coding of this site for all users. Yes if your looking at it in anything but Safari, its not finished…

Started writing a little book/memory thing for myself. Thought it would be good to get some stuff out of my head of the past few years…

Smoking rolling tobacco now for awhile to cut down on the smoking. Seems to be working out well. Cant drive and roll so thats cutting out a lot of smokes. Yet I am getting better at it.

Working on a new CMS for Sotheby now. CakePHP 1.3 is what I’m using. Going through it very carefully so as to make it re-usable for all the developers at work.

Thats all for now..

Updating site design

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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!

Coffee in CPT

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u&me Coffee Shop

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

There is also one corner loop & strand.

Best browser for web developers

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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.

Copy-writing

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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 :)

Finding the best coffee in Cape Town

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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.

Facebook Account re-activated…

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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.

Using find command to remove windows files

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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.

A

Facebook Account Disabled..

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My Facebook account has been disabled. The help page they send me to says something about rate limits but not sure how I did that. Maybe it was the person I added over the weekend or umm..

Anyway, hopefully I will get an answer soon as to why or maybe they restore my account.

Have a great week.

P.S. Just noticed comments aren’t work. That’s because they where linked to my facebook account.

You Know You Are Living in 2009 When…

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1. You accidentally enter (one of your ten) passwords on the microwave.

2 You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have their e-mail addresses.

6. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

7. You get up in the morning and go on line before breakfast.

8 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

10. You know exactly to whom you want to copy and paste this.

11. You are too busy to notice there was no number 9 on this list.