The makings of a Dilbert strip January 17, 2007
Converstation between me and a co-worker today:
Me [09:16]:
what happened to that fix u were doing for the 9051’s?
Co-worker [09:17]:
Waiting for the spec. Have done the code change, but can’t check in cos there is no spec
It speaks for itself! 
Digg’s article paging January 16, 2007
I’ve been a digg.com fan for quite some time now. I’ve seen it grow, change and evolve. I’ve seen the coming of newer versions, listened to the diggnation podcast, and even when they included the Entertainment topic, I still didn’t stop reading digg!
There’s just one thing that’s always annoyed me, and it’s still there even after the last version. When you load up digg’s main page (www.digg.com) for the first time, you’ll see 15 stories. Lets number these Story1 – Story15. Now lets say you take 30 minutes to read through a few of the articles that you find interesting, and then you click “Next >> ” so you can read what follows. Here I often find that the stories I’ve already read shows up again, because new stories was posted during the 30 minutes it took me to read the “1st” page and moved them over onto the 2nd page.
To me that doesn’t make alot of sense. I’m logged in, it should be easy for digg to track where I am related to where I’ve started, ie showing me Story16-30 when I click “Next >>”. If you picture a more extreme scenario, it’d be easy for you to ‘get lost’.
Does anyone else notice this, and is there maybe a setting to ‘fix’ this?
2007 is here! January 15, 2007
What made me realize just how quick time flies was two weekends ago, when I drove back to Pretoria to go and help my 
brother move in. He’ll start his tertiary education this year, exactly what I did 7 years ago around this time of the year! Back then I moved into my dorm room whilst the seniors pretended to be greatest people on earth. Only because our parents were there too. The fun would start as soon as they leave, the snake lurking in the not so green grass.
My greatest fear was that all the talk about res being such a great place will turn out to be just nonsense from naive parents who grew up in a time when varsity students where holy and wonderful; the worst act they could possibly perform was not to greet an elder in the vast halls of the unversity’s buildings.
Times have changed, it’s the perpetual motion by which all of our vast universe is governed. Ditto for the youth. And this I knew all to well, since I was also one of them. The plan was to adopt the mindset of a powerhungry senior who now starts his second year, the memory of his torment the year before still fresh. His desire for rhetorical injustice to the first cocky ‘jarr’ who dares to breath in his presence, now larger than his puny brain that will keep him restrained to his rickety dorm room well past the years his degree require.
That was me. And my plan failed. Somehow though, I think back with fond memories. Never will I go back, life has moved on, times have changed and I’m happy where I’m now. Lets hope my little brother can do the same.
