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This happened last Monday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Fay 1-Kitesurfer 0 and glad to make it to hospital. Letting go can be the hardest thing…

This post (<a href=”http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2008/08/21/malik-s-laws-of-service-oriented-architecture.aspx”>Malik’s Laws of Service Oriented Architecture</a>) is short, to the point and a no-nonsense comment on how Service Oriented Archictecure will (or will not) come of age in the enterprise. I’ve been thinking for a while that SOA evangelists are the enterprise counterpart of OO evangelists; both have reusability high on their [...]

… if you’re lying upside down on the bar counter getting body shots, that is… it’s all a matter of perspective, really.

Stumbled upon this Slate.com article discussing Isaac Hayes’ afterlife as a devoted Scientologist. He died on Sunday (yup, slipped past me as well). Related Slate articles (from the same one): Mark Oppenheimer explained why Scientology is not a cult, and Bonnie Goldstein revealed the contract Scientologists have to sign. Juliet Lapidos picked out the juicy [...]

A handful of sites, mine included, suffers from a PHP error that comes from the Recaptcha‘s plugin for WordPress: Warning: pack() [function.pack]: Type H: illegal hex digit L in /home/.grotton/wvcw/wvcw.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-recaptcha/recaptchalib.php on line 245. I have disabled Recapcha for now until I get it fixed. Update: This error is caused by your private or public keys [...]

Joburg’s eservices site isn’t dishing out accounts online any more. A message reads on the account-by-email page: IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS WHO RECEIVE THEIR ACCOUNT BY EMAIL: We are in the process of enhancing the viewing of accounts online. Please note that your online account from March 2008 until further notice will not be available [...]

is packing. Packed breakfast (tried Mugg & Bean’s Deli stuff, nice), now packing for weekend. Kaapsehoop, wild horses, Julius, here we come! #