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sep 23 2004

could it be possible...

that rem is going to be touring in sa? apparently so: thursday - 3rd march: the bellville velodrome - cape town the tickets aren't on sale yet but the prices have been advertised on computicket and they are pretty steep. having seen the band in london at earl's court a few years back i can say that it is well worth the price though whether you wanna be close (r365.00) or not so close (r263.00). i doubt being way at the back (r161.00) is really worth it though, so get the good ones before they're all gone! they start selling tickets on the 29th september @ 9am...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | music

sep 22 2004

a welcome warmth

yesterday was a beautiful warm day in cape town, with a max temperature of 27 degrees. although it's not going to last... today saw the arrival of another cold front, it's currently overcast but not cold. i left work a little earlier than normal and got stuck in a bottle-neck thanks to an accident on n1 coming into town, no doubt the rubber-neckers were causing the huge delay. so i hoped off and went home via the scenic beach road routes, which was flowing rather nicely. the sunset was awesome and i had to stop and take some pictures. when i finally hit melkbos, i went straight to the beach at 1st avenue and snapped some pics there too, below is a small panoramic view of the sunset i caught there. last thursday i uploaded alot of pictures from our w/end away in bot rivier, which was very cool. ed and i are going to try and get our asses out there this w/end, to possibly look at investing in a holiday home. i will be working on getting my other scenic, sunset pics into a gallery asap.

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

sep 15 2004

unsolicited bulk email

my colleagues and i received some shifty unsolicted bulk email last week. the dodgy people went to our website and grabbed our details from there and then sent an email to each of us requesting some more information. it pissed me off so much i did some research. i found that the email wasn't even sent from the companies that are mentioned in the email, Interactive Direct and Decision Makers (dot coza). it was infact sent from another company called analogue dot coza. salama at analogue dot coza to be exact. i have no doubt that this person doesn't even exist! what i did find interesting was that my favourite web hosting company (webonline) hosts analogue dot coza. so i sent a mail to them (accounts) and the ispa. updated 13 oct 2004 on friday stewart from webonline got back to me and told me that they have received other complaints and are following it up, can i please send him the original email? sure. wow, i didn't really expect to hear much from anybody. i feel like this is unresolved... i have a list of names of the people that own all the domains i mentioned, plus their contact details (address, phone and email). i don't know what to do with all this info though? anybody have any ideas?

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | ranting, tech, web

sep 09 2004

thirsty thursday

yup it's thursday. one day closer to our w/end away. yippee! normally we would have a thirsty thursday night at the house. anyone and everyone is welcome, you drink and socialise on a week day night at our spot. nothing too hectic (i'd be lying if i said that they were always tame though), have some drinks, play some pool and chill. i think it'll be cancelled tonight though. ed and i are tired, we stayed up until about 1am this morning trying to sort out a portpholio for his bic and kitchens business... it's frustrating working into the wee hours of the morning. deadlines suck too. i reckon i need to get better at taking pics. all i think that is needed is more 'pratice', take pictures as much as possible. mission this w/end: take a poep load of pics! and possibly sort out as many as possible so i can upload them to the gallery!

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | personal

sep 08 2004

another friend leaves

tonight ed and i will be going out in 'celebration' of dyan leaving for her cruise ship again. it's not so much a celebration i guess as it is a last chance to see her and wish her well (aswell as show all our sa bound friends that we do actually go out and socialise). lauren left on sunday to return to her yacht, i think she went to barbados. i'm hoping i wasn't listening too well (and it was actually some other tropical island paradise starting with a b) because a hurricane passed through there yesterday / last night. i'll call her folks and check. on the other side of the pacific, japan is getting quite a pounding too. they actually have been hit by a few tsunami's!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

sep 08 2004

nassty

hello...just so you can see that i have registered. bye. only got 9 mins left..... :)

Posted by nassty | comments (1)

sep 03 2004

increased activity

i've spent the past 2 days editing, changing and securing phunkd in order to have some friends and family become regular bloggers here, hopefully they are interested. so far so good. i just need to get them to register, get some dodgy pics of them (and myself) and then we're ready to rock 'n roll. i will be trying my damndest to get baby pics of all the registered bloggers, including myself. you'll notice that the author of a blog post (currently only mine is there) is clickable now, this will take you to a page with a run down on that blogger, with links to all the other bloggers. tonight we'll be having some fun as we are hosting a farewell party for lauren (hopefully a future blogger here) at our place. chicken / beef stir-fry, a film preview and lots of loud music. it should be pretty good!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal, social networks, tech, web

aug 30 2004

progress

on friday afternoon i got my car back... all fixed for a fraction of the price the authorised dealers would have charged me! now i'm thinking of keeping the thing!? the guys who fixed my car informed me that they tightened / replaced some stuff relating to the aircon. the aircon guy told me about a month ago that my evaporator was gone and he'd get back to me regarding that (he never did). so after hearing that there were some nuts and bolts tighten / replaced / fixed regarding that, i went back to the aircon guy and insisted on a regas. he was adamant that it's the evaporator, cause it's leaking in the overflow. er, overflows are supposed to 'leak', did he think i was stupid or something? is it because i am chick that he tried to make me believe that? whatever... anyways, straight after the regas, we hear a loud hiss... hmmm, could that be the sound of a gas leak? hehehe blocked him good and proper. i spent R1500.00 fixing the aircon in february, and it never seemed right to me that straight after fixing one thing another would conk out. so it's still under guarentee and aircon guy has to fix it! lekker. the weather was very cool this w/end and i spent most of saturday tending to simon's much neglected garden. a good mow and tons of (borehole) water made a huge difference. now i'm on a mission to try and get everyone to not park their cars on the lawn as much so that it really gets nice and lush. i was well knackered after that, it felt like i had run a marathon. so i spent the rest of my w/end chilling. i hope the weather is wicked next w/end too.

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

aug 24 2004

^!@*)? cars

mine blew it's head gasket this morning in traffic. this was not a very pleasant surprise at all. i was planning on finishing off the payments at the end of this year and then channelling all that extra dosh into a savings account for an investment in property (sometime in the next 20 years with the prices being as ridiculous as they are right now)... as i type, the car is being fixed. i'm not sure if i'll get it back today though. then what? option 1 trade the car in for another cheaper, low maintenance wreck. pay outstanding vehicle finance. this option sees me losing a little dosh cause you never get a good price for trade-in's. option 2 get the bumper scratch (courtesy of a friendly taxi) sorted out and then sell the car privately, a little more dosh will be gotten out of the deal (rather then going to a shady car dealer). but i could be carless inbetween getting rid of old car and getting new car? option 3 buy new car, second vehicle financing required. get old cars' bumper fixed in meantime and sell when complete. this way i pay 2 monthly instalments (and insurances) for 2 cars . the fixing and selling of old car could take longer then expected and really dent the pocket. option 4 keep the car, since the problem has been fixed anyway! anyone got any ideas? ^!@*)? cars

Posted by sarah | add a comment | ranting

aug 23 2004

isn't it obvious?

reading cnn.com this morning i stumbled onto a story about the 9/11 commission and the latest release of info... there is a list of the immigation violations some of the hijackers had yet still managed to be admitted into the states... i draw your attention to point 5: Each of the 19 submitted a visa application stating that he was not seeking to enter the United States to engage in terrorism. really? then it wouldn't have been a surprise! i must admit that as much as i would like to think that all terrorists are dumb, they most likely aren't. their distorted view of how their fellow man should live and co-habit in this world of ours is certainly not healthy. then again a war based on wmd's oil isn't healthy either!

Posted by sarah | add a comment | stoopidity

aug 12 2004

the long commute

i live about 30 minutes from central cape town, where i work. some days it takes a little over 30 minutes to or from work, other days it painfully takes alot longer. today, for example, traffic was bought to a standstill on the n1 because idiots were rubber-necking a slight fender bender... after slowing to a snails pace to gawk, the idiots then speeded up to carry on with their commute leaving thousands (hundreds?) behind them in stop, crawl traffic. thank you very much idiots! today's cape times headline: "Rush hour traffic up 60%" is everyone moving to the cbd because as far as i know unemployment hasn't decreased? at the end of the year / early next year, we are due to move offices and there has been many a debate on where to move, with the cbd being the safe option. other suggestions are tokai and century city. i would prefer century city but then again some collegues live out by fishhoek and hout bay. they would prefer tokai. every route for the west coast pleb to these sort of places end up in one lane to get to the main route - huge bottleneck! not to mention it would be further away for me and the other west coast plebs, i'd personally be looking at an hour long journey then. no ways josé! i'd like to kick the ass of the person who designed these one lane joineries (a few times)...

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | ranting

jul 23 2004

standards?

[whispers] web standards [/whispers]. i'm afraid to mention it too loudly... damien and charl have been having quite a debate about it recently. so anyway, being curious as to how phunkd ranked, i ran it through a standard validator, the result: this page is not valid html 4.01 transitional! the initial result was a pretty sloppy page. i quickly fixed all that i could with the exception of some dodgy labels on the poll include. now i must say i am happy with 8 errors rather than 61 (ouch!). geez, i think i better start getting better at web standards if i wanna call myself a good web developer! update: after some tweaking, my site is valid html 4.01 transitional now. yippee! i can put a button somewhere... double yippee!

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | web

jul 21 2004

a new arrival

about 2-3 months ago ed and i ordered a huge lounge suite (pic to be added soon in the gallery) to be made to our specifications. the price tag was alot less then buying the same thing at a discount furniture store. the service these guys offered though has been terrible (even for cape town standards)... so last week, no wait the week before that, they call and say "hey, your lounge suite is done, we'll deliver on friday". so friday comes and by 10am there's been no feedback from them whatsoever. ed's been trying to get a hold of them since 8am. finally at about 11am some-one answers the phone. he is then informed that the lounge suite is actually not ready because the lady on the phone has been away for 3 days and the power has been off for 3 days too! well, thanks for letting us know. ed's organised his day so he could be there when they deliver. that means he hasn't done any on-site work, collected client's orders or done any quotes. total estimate of money lost: R1000.00. alright, we'll leave it for now... then on friday (last week) i get a call. the lounge suite is ready now. really? really. so i go and view it. i confirm that it'll be delivered by 11am the next day (saturday). i also ask to speak to the manager. i'm told she's not there and she might only be in on monday. ok so get her to call me when she's in, be it tomorrow or monday morning... i want to discuss maybe getting a discount for the inconvenience they caused the week before. saturday morning i rush to the bank to get the remaining cash for the lounge suite, we put 50% down as a deposit. they don't take cheques (only if they're bank guarenteed). i get back to the house at around 9.30 and start making room for the new lounge suite. old futons are removed, taken apart and ed's sleeper couch is taken out onto the porch. this was all done a little before 11am, deadline for the arrival of the new lounge suite. 11am comes and goes. by 12 i phone them to find out what's happening. oh the driver hasn't arrived yet and they don't know when he'll be in. ah hello, why didn't you call me and let me know? why do i have to constantly chase you to get answers / info? now i am mad and want to speak to the manager. give me her cellphone number. no we don't do that. well get a hold of her and get her to give me a call. ok. they do that apparently and they call me to let me know. later they call to say the driver is there and that they are loading the lounge suite. that's at around 1pm. i expect them to be at my spot at around 2pm. 3pm they arrive. in the meantime i have decided to deduct 10% and delivery off of the final payment. then my mom arrives and reckons i shouldn't pay them at all and says "you never give delivery guys cash". okay cool. but when they arrive i crumble... i'm going to go to hell for this i think. you can't not give them their money? naughty naughty. after abit of a panic my mom writes them a cheque for half the outstanding balance (hubby had the cheque book) and we give it to them in an envelope and send them on their way. monday afternoon, not first thing in the morning, i get a call from some-one at the company, couldn't hear their name (abit of a mumble). so i call back a little later and speak to the same person i've spoken to throughout this. she mentions nothing about the cheque or the outstanding amount, i ask to speak to the manager. surprise, she's not there. she'll be in the office at 2pm. i call back after 2 and am told she's still not in the office, but a message is taken this time and she'll call me when she gets in. it's wednesday, late afternoon, and i have yet to hear from anyone at the company. what do i do now?

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

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

jul 08 2004

the shortest day

yup, the shortest day in the southern hemisphere came and went. the cold is still here but i'm starting to catch awesome sunsets on my way home from work again, up until quite recently it's been pitch black! i added the pics from ed's 31st to the gallery... i'm stumped as to why i didn't add my b-day pics... did we take any, i don't remember but i will check the laptop? i see that quite a few peeps are redesigning their websites. i can't wait to see the new designs... and once i see them it's likely that i'd wish i was a kick-ass designer just like them (hurry up guys!). fahrenheit 9/11 is due for release here in sa at the end of the month and i am way keen to see it when it does hit the circuit. i went and saw bowling for columbine at the cinema and really enjoyed it. the michael moore website has been serving something like 30 million hits a day since he added the movie trailer (i have a very crappy dial-up and have yet to see it) and he's even got his own blogger now

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

jun 25 2004

sniffles

i recently caught a really mild cold from my hubby, one day of grogginess (really feeling miff) then one day of clogginess (all blocked up) and now i have a few sniffles, abit of a scratchy throat and whenever i swallow, an irritating click in my right ear... *sigh* it's going to be a bloody cold w/end here in cape town and i wish i could just hibernate the whole time. but saturday morning will be spent standing in a queue at the traffic department trying to get the damn liscence disc for my car. which i paid for already but they didn't give to me because the arse who bought my last car (good ol' heap o' junk) had failed to register it in his name, so it was still in my name... but that's all been done now and i can get the disc but have to spend saturday morning doing so! then saturday evening is ed's 31st birthday party. a 5 piece birthday party. how it goes: everyone has to bring 5 pieces of clothing that they normally wear in a bag with their name on. when they arrive we take their stuff away, place it under a huge blanket. later after a few drinks people must randomly pick a bag from under the blanket and proceed to change their clothes for what's in the bag (this can be done in private if they so wish, actually i would prefer it). the result should be fun... tonight i am taking the lucky hubby to dinner at a lovely spot in town for some chocolate meat... mmmm

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | personal

jun 21 2004

lazy days

i had most of last week off, thanks to a stragetically placed public holiday and taking leave at the right time. it was a welcome break from the office after all the chaos that's been happening there lately...yesterday i finally managed to get the skydiving pictures up in the gallery (about a month after flinging ourselves out of a plane at 3000 ft). we have to go soon in order to not go through the training again, but the weather hasn't been on our side and although i've been having a break ed's been super busy. hopefully we'll get a chance this saturday, before his 31st birthday party later on in the day. i am so chuffed with my blogger. in the past i used to copy and paste the front page into a new page and specific folder then check all links (incl. pictures) and do the whole "../". then i would create a link and blurb in the archives page and then i'd update the front page and when i was finally done i'd upload all the changes. whew! now i go to me blog page, type some stuff, hit "add" and there it is! i should've done this a long time ago.

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal

jun 15 2004

moving along...

ok so i've added a comments thing for these posts. but... hmm, i really don't get it. i try to format the date on the comments page to read like on the home page and in the left hand navigation, but when i do that i get "thu, 1 jan 1970". i have the following code:$formatdate = date("D, d M Y", $timestamp); echo "$formatdate º $author"; if i don't format it doesn't look like the rest of the site but it shows the right date... how can i format it without losing the data? i will update the galleries very soon. i have to put up my sky-diving pictures, yeah i went sky-diving. all by myself, none of that tandem crap! it was a brilliant b-day pressie from my hubby... his b-day is coming up at the end of the month and i'm in a mad rush to top his gift. any ideas?

Posted by sarah | comments (9) | web

jun 14 2004

laptop blues

i tried to work this w/end... on this website ofcourse to have it all up before monday morning. ha! my laptop had other ideas, or should i say windows xp. i struggled and got nowhere trying install apache and php to run on it. i am still stumped... so my mission is to get that working before i continue with more development for this website, although i am not too sure what else i'd like to add to this web thing i currently have... oh i remember, comments to my blogging? hmm

Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal, tech


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