A Web Designer's View – Port Elizabeth, St Francis Bay, South Africa

I recently launched a new site called Longboarding South Africa.  After recently taking up longboarding myself, I found that there aren’t much resources available online here in South Africa for longboarders. I am hoping to change that with the launch of this site. My aim with this site is to help longboarding grow here in South Africa. (more…)

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So the social media madness continues. During a bout of boredom I decided to go take a peek at how all my RSS feeds are doing. I was not really surprised to find that the one site that was supposed to be updating is down (RSS2Twitter) and that the other just does not do any of the updates I asked it to do (TwitterFeed). (more…)

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Very recently I have been getting quite a lot of sites hacked by guys who leave an include in files like js and php files. This include calls a script from their own servers located at inkrainbow.ru and pocketbloke.ru. (more…)

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EDIT 16 July 2010 – Just another waste of time. I can’t help but wonder, what the whole point is of doing something like this? Is it a joke? Is it another scam? Some people really have too much time on their hands…
So just ignore, as attractive as it may seem!!!

Needing urgent help. These huskies and their pups will be put down if they don’t find a home very quickly! I don’t even want to know what kind of person can go so low. See the message below for more info.

Anyone want a puppy? Or know someone who does?
Looking for urgent housing for the above huskies, otherwise they will unfortunately be put down.
The female is 2 years old, the male 1.5 years old and the pups are 8 weeks old.
Please email this to everyone you know that might help
For more info contact Suzanne Wiese on 082 640 xxxx.

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I suppose it is inherent in our human nature to complain about everything. If it’s not too warm, then it’s too cold, when it’s not raining, everyone wants rain, and then when it rains, people complain about it raining all the time. God must think we are the most dissatisfied bunch of misfits He ever created. (more…)

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According to me (and I’m sure thousands of other proudly South Africans), Die Antwoord is the next best thing to come out of South Africa. Not very popular with the more conservative side of our beautiful and diverse country; I have read some very heated comments on blogs all over the internet. (more…)

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I saw this really funny photo on Facebook and just had to add my two cents worth. Whether it is a joke or not, it does give you a kind of sickening feeling to the pit of your stomache. (after having a good laugh about it) This obviously has to do with the build up to the FIFA World Cup to be hosted here in South Africa in about 2 months time. (more…)

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Lately there has been a lot of political upheaval here in South Africa again. Ol’ Julius Malema has been making a proper arse of himself nationally and internationally. First it started with his singing of the so-called “ANC freedom song”, “shoot the boer” and then the other night he chased an international journalist out of a press conference because the guy pointed out how he contradicts himself. And then the right wing party, AWB’s leader, Eugene Terreblanche was brutally murdered on his farm over a so-called “wage dispute”. (more…)

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Just having watched the news and hearing about the 24.8% price hike, as of April this year, feels like a bit of a stab to the heart. Yes, living in a small home, this only means an increase of R80 per month for me, but what about people who can’t even afford to put food on the table. R80 sure buys a lot of bread and mealie meal!!

Then you can’t help to wonder what the real issue behind this price increase is. Is it really to improve the country’s electricity infrastructure or is it merely to line the pockets of the fat cats at the top. I believe it is the latter and I have very good reason to believe so. (more…)

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Cape Town is a great place. We all know that. I just returned from a nice long holiday there. Cape Town has always struck me as a beautiful place with the mountains and the peninsula. In the past I never had an opportunity to stay over for long. I was always just in and out for a weekend or so. (more…)

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