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may 25 2010

non-existant

for some odd reason the south african post office website does not work... and this isn't a new thing. i have been trying to get in for a couple of months now to track packages, upon trying to get in this morning it is yet again not loading. i did enquire about this and they shrug their shoulders, but are aware of it as are many other people... the ironic thing is that it says in their slogan on their banner (which i managed to get of google) "conveniently make online payments"! fail

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, bloopers, information, ranting, stoopidity, web

mar 07 2010

this tmo needs his eyes checked

i have been pretty busy because i should've written sooner about this but that tmo in the stormers vs brumbies match should have his eyes checked or get a better screen to watch the replays on because even on youtube it looks like a try to me...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, debate, sport

nov 15 2007

inaccurate

the wind is howling in cape town today, so i went online to iol weather to check what they reckon about the wind and will tomorrow (heaven forbid) be the same...?

what i got back makes me think they are getting their weather info from the wrong people... according to their website, the wind is calm today, a massive 0km/h! same wind forecast for tomorrow, hmmm?

does anyone have ideas on where to get more accurate weather info for the cape town area?

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | bloopers, web

nov 14 2007

deja vu

this so sounds like what happened to ed and i on a flight from cape town to jo'burg. after grounding us for 1 hour, they turned around and said that it was a mistake. scary, nonetheless, when you return to the airport and a bunch of ambulances and firetrucks are chasing the plane as it lands... i think kulula needs to check this out thoroughly, because it has happened before!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, information

jun 08 2007

oopsie

it seems you can't turn a corner without some-one new adding you as a friend in facebook. some days, even when you don't really have the time, you find yourself trawling all your friend's friend's to see if there is some-one new to add. it's rather addictive even just to 'poke' some-one every other day.

unfortunately i haven't had much luxury time and haven't really embraced the whole thing. luckily for me, some of my friends have and they keep sending me new links for new, cool tools. today i added the slideshow thingy and it seems i broked it a little... not badly though and i think they've made quite an awesome application!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, social networks

apr 29 2007

the farce in the dark

finally, the cricket world cup is over! last nights game was quite a farce. the tropical, unpredictable caribbean weather made sure of that.

it didn't help that none of the match officials had a clue of what was going on, or so it seemed. i really believe that in those extreme conditions they should've postponed till the next day. seriously, how on earth were sri lanka ever expected to have a chance in those conditions?

and then australia prematurely celebrating, the organisers bringing the stands out for the ceremony - only to be told to remove them by the umpires...

ridiculous. hopefully the next world cup will be better organised and not so looooooong.

at work we had a tournament to see who could guess the outcome of the matches the best. for a chickie, i didn't do too bad. my highest standing at one stage was 3rd place. in the the end though i only managed come in 5th...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, ranting, sport

feb 02 2007

uuurrrgh

it seems there are some problems with my comments on the website. i have tried to see why some people are able to comment and others aren't - but i'm not finding the problem... it's really strange because tripeak wasn't able to post, but when i did a test to add his comment, it went through fine?

now, the 'quiet one' has tried to post a comment and he also got the dreaded message: "You tried to either spam the comments or enter a banned word, please try again warrenski!"

i have one request, it's simple, please post a comment here, one and all... if you get the message, let me know via this and if possible let me know exactly what you tried to post!

much appreciated!

Posted by sarah | comments (8) | bloopers, web

apr 08 2005

spelling

there's an article on news24.com about a woman receiving a traffic fine and there's tons of spelling errors on the document...

anyway, some way through the article, news24.com proceed to spell badly:

Subpoenas and warrants are apparently cecked for errors before they are posted.

how ironic!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers

jul 15 2004

more bad spelling

found on upsaid.com:

"This change will not only be a releaf for the server, but it will also give us the chance..."

have you seen any simple, bad spelling mistakes?

on tuesday my books that i ordered from amazon.com finally arrived. faster and cheaper then anyone in south africa could offer me. exlcusive books (approached and ordered at the beginning of may) told me to expect one of the books to arrive at the end of july, they didn't have the other book.

kalahari.net was too pricey.

so now whenever i have a spare moment i am trying to learn sql server 2000, stored procedures and xml programming... all before the end of august. doable i hope? today was my first serious day to check out the sql server 2000 book and it's helping me understand it but i'm feeling rather mind-numbed. good thing i have to stop the studying to compile a website, hooray!

it was funny when i opened the package at my mom's place, the first books' title threw her off abit... she asked me if it was a reference book for the bible. err no mom, it's a programming book. (title: microsoft sql server 2000 bible)

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers, personal, web

jul 09 2004

editing problems

i know i don't speel lekker sometimes but i'd expect an edited news site to at least read the text and edit the text accordingly... right?

Montoya almost had a high-speed off when he lost slithered through Maggots curve but he controlled the mistake well and continued after a brief trip across the run-off area.

that's pretty bad editing. what is a high-speed off? and what exactly happens when you lost slithered? it's not the first time i've seen some bad editing (or lack thereof) on news24

Posted by sarah | add a comment | bloopers