Well my current contract finishes this week so I’ve started looking again. The market seems quite active though so hopefully it should be OK. There’s a lot of talk around “Design Patterns” though. I’m quite keen to get an insight into this ASAP, so I’ve just bought a recommended book about it. If anyone knows of any descent resources, please let me know.
Attie Heunis's Journey
The ramblings of a Caucasian African American
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Check out this very handy Internet telephony app. You can “phone” PCs or Phones. Really good international rates as well.
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Attie Heunis with FW de Klerk Ek was so ‘n ruk terug by die SA Golf Dag hier in Engeland. FW de Klerk, een van my ultimate helde was ook daar gewees. Dit was interessant en hy het ‘n baie goeie speech gegee, maar ek was eintlik effens teleurgesteld in hom. Hy het obviously oud geword, maar meer as net dit: dit het gelyk asof hy opgegee het.
Ek het al aan hom begin dink as ‘n moontlike kandidaat vir die SekGen van die VN (veral omdat Kofi Anan ‘n absolute pateet is), maar nadat ek hom nou die dag gesien het, dink ek nie dit sit op die oomblik in sy broekspyp nie. Plus ek sien hy’t nou die dag ‘n R7m saak verloor ook. Die hele ding het ook vir my ietwat dodgy geklink.
Ek hoop waaragtig hy kan homself regruk. Hy is so vrek slim en hy kan rêrig baie beteken vir minderheidsregte (dis nou vir ons wittes, onder andere) en die Afrikaner. Dit sal vir my baie hartseer wees as hy net so stil-stil verdwyn.
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I just saw a doccie on UKHistory about the Boer War. Man did we kick the shit out of the then mighty Poms! I never realised it was such a big deal in Europe at the time though. The whole angle of the British back then was to get their hands on “our” gold & diamonds. Doesn’t that ring any bells (nudge nudge wink wink)?
As an Afrikaner, I’m proud of the way that we refused to give in to the English. In the same way I wonder how, in time, the world will see the Iraqis that refuse to bow to the Americans now. If you think about it they have nothing left, but they still keep on fighting. You have to admire their resolution, if not their means. I bet you even the Americans in time will admit that. After all the Confederates (Bush is known to support the Southern Cause) were in excactly the same position at Gettysburg in the American Civil War in 1863.
That is the thing about war. It is all so relative. I don’t think you can make the Iraqi soldiers into the “bad” guys. They’re just protecting what they think is theirs. Or am I totally wrong?
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Israel’s stranglehold over the United States has this week taken another step with the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. What absolute tripe! I cannot believe that the US is falling for this crap. How can the US ever be seen as objective when it comes to Jewish concerns. I want to see the day when there is a Global Anti-Arabic Awareness Act or a Global Anti-German Awareness Act or a Global Anti-Boer Awareness Act. Bollocks!
I’m sooo sick of these groups. Don’t they realise that this kind of shit alienates them from other communities much more then it protects them?
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This is one of the funniest ad I’ve seen in ages!
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I’ve uploaded some more images at vectorsoft.net.
Check out the arty Wimbledon stuff, the Thames Sites and the Canary Wharf sites.
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I’ve just officially switched to Mozilla. The new release is superb!
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I’ve just started using MySql on my Eastern Cape website and I’m so stoked with it. Just as quick as SQL Server (and up to 6 times faster than MS-Access), extremely scalable and it is free. Contrary to popular belief it also works really well with .NET. There are a couple of free admin tools out there, but sofar I’ve found Navicat (about £60) to be the business. With Stored Procedures being part of version 5, I wonder if I’ll ever go back to SQL Server.
Attie Heunis's Journey 