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Jeremy Zawodny has picked up another brilliant innovation from Google – user-specified ads. Don’t like the Google ads you’re seeing? (for example the ad for premium elk meat next to my post about vegetarianism). Simple – change them! You can read more at Inside Google and see an example at Consumer Affairs. The best ad… Continue reading Google user-specified ads

This is an update to the post Moving to Circular Systems. Circular Systems took a bit long to arrange their US server, so Anique cancelled the order, and thanks to the advice from Aubrey and Jacques, we’re trying Layered Technologies. So far so good, the server has been promptly set up and things seem to… Continue reading Moving to layeredtech

Tectonic have just announced the release of a print version. I wrote an article (in November or so, so hopefully not too out of date!) on MySQL that might be in it. But even if not, no reason not to drop everything and subscribe now! First two issues are free. Well done Alastair and Jason,… Continue reading Tectonic releasing print version

Looks like Google are now redirecting South African’s who try to get to google.com to google.co.za. First impressions are a little laughable – you can now use Google in Afrikaans, isiZulu, Sesotho and of course Xhousea. For those international readers who don’t know, Xhousea is one of the most widespread South African languages, equivalent to… Continue reading google.com redirecting to google.co.za

My silence has been deafening regarding Jacque’s post, so it’s time I give some sort of response! He has a nice screenshot of an IOL error page captured for all eternity. Damn, and we hoped no-one ever noticed… I’ve never seen that specific one before, and no-one here reported an error like that, but it… Continue reading Error Error

Well, at least according to an article in today’s ITWeb newsletter. Reading a bit more carefully it’s actually said by one Vic Gundotra, GM for platform strategy at Microsoft. It’s hard to tell though, as ITWeb does a good job with their press-release articles. I’m not sure why I get annoyed at things like this.… Continue reading Open Source’s days are numbered

My site, greenman.co.za and a few others should be moving shortly (and no, it’s not due to the vast amounts of traffic I’m getting!) Top of the list is Circular Systems, who look like they have some good deals. If the site goes down, you know who to blame. Main reasons for the choice are… Continue reading Moving to Circular Systems

I finally took a look at MySQL Administrator earlier this month. It proved a good excuse for an article, and you can read it here.

Hooray, my first comment spam. I use b2evolution as an engine, and it comes with a handy antispam feature, maintained by the community, but it was only a matter of time before one slipped through. I’ve decided to keep the comment as a memento to this auspicious day; you can read it here.

I’ve been closely monitoring the Google ads on my page to see how well contextualised they are. They’ve mostly been blog ads, so to try and skew the weightings a bit and get something more useful I changed Ian Gilfillan’s blog to Ian Gilfillan’s web log (this posting probably undoes all the good work!). That… Continue reading Google and Reagan’s beautiful funeral