I urge anyone who reads this and understands the reason why, to please post a comment and enlighten me too. Why are all imported books in South Africa always at least 15 * the dollar amount? Currently the exchange rate is $1 = R6.66. For the past year the R-$ had been between R5.50 to R6.90 to the $.

Why on earth does a book that cost $19.77 on Amazon, cost R303 in South Africa? $19.77 = R131. Even adding shipping and customs etc. should not add up to R303!!! It is a small book - not heavy, not large. How much can shipping costs be?

Look here:

.NET Allows you to quickly write slow applications.

I was about to install Norton Antivirus 2006 from my Acer install CD when the software prompted me after I clicked on "Install Norton Antivirus": "Are you sure you want to install this module?" I mean come on! It does not even show the name of the module so what use is a message requesting confirmation of something you just instructed it to do, if it provides no useful decision making information?

Do not be too jealous as I am (pretty sure) that I am the first South African to own a 17" MacBook Pro. :)

Do you know what a CAPTCHA is? It is one of those small graphics people (like me) use whenever a turing test is to be performed - i.e. a human be told apart from a computer. Typically this is used in blogs to allow only human commenters, registering for email/online accounts etc. The idea is to display some warped text on a distracting background so that OCR programs have difficulty recognising the characters from the noise, but not humans. The primary use is to fight SPAM. But...........

......today I received a special SPAM message - unlike the other 22 I receive per day. See, this time the SPAMMERS are using our own tools to defy Anti-SPAM tools... So this is an Anti-(Anti-SPAM) technique? This is starting to get so confusing!!!

Look at the nice ad I got - and recognise the CAPTCHA style of the contents. So precious! I love it!
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