Cheap phone calls, yay!

Posted by cpbotha on March 28th, 2004 in · 2 Comments

Usually, it costs us 62.24 euro cents per minute to call home to ZA. With the “voordeelnummers” discount of KPN, it costs 43.57 euro cents per minute…

Bad, interface, bad!

Posted by cpbotha on March 26th, 2004 in · 1 Comment

Why do the clever people at Microsoft persist in labelling their buttons with “Ok” and “Cancel”, even when these words have almost nothing to do with the actions that will be performed when such a button is clicked?..

My ADSL gets another upgrade

Posted by cpbotha on March 20th, 2004 in · 2 Comments

It seems that (finally) my ADSL will also be upgraded at the beginning of April…

Emacs Code Browser

Posted by cpbotha on March 11th, 2004 in · 10 Comments

Did you know that (X)Emacs could do this? Now I just have to find a frikking package for my Debian Stable.

Prisoners are allowed to vote, I’m not

Posted by cpbotha on March 3rd, 2004 in · 4 Comments

South Africa is a great country, but sometimes things can be completely crazy…