Lohan on August 28th, 2008

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…

Continue reading about Kite surfer rides tropical storm

Lohan on August 26th, 2008

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 [...]

Continue reading about If you know this SOA then your life will be better

Lohan on August 26th, 2008

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

Continue reading about I can’t believe it – SA’s boozing through the roof

Lohan on August 14th, 2008

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 [...]

Continue reading about Want to know more about Scientology?

Lohan on August 13th, 2008

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 being incorrect. Check that [...]

Continue reading about Recaptcha packing some errors

Lohan on August 13th, 2008

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 online [...]

Continue reading about No more online City of Joburg Accounts

Lohan on August 1st, 2008

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

Continue reading about Twitter Updates for 2008-08-01