Here are some remixes of the famous Achmed the dead Terrorist.
Author: Arné Klopper
The Dakar Rally just finished and the blood is still pumping in our blood about the excitement and endurance of the sport.
Why don’t you try it yourself.
Egos.co.za have some very nice ‘Experiences’ where you can experience some new adventures, adrenaline rush activities or just pampering packages. You can find more information about this specific Self Drive package here.
It’ s nice to see such nice packages to see and do things around South Africa.
I’ve been using Adgator for about 3 months now, since their inception in December 2008, in a strive to monetize from my blog and pay a chunk of the monthly hosting costs.
My experience so far with the Adgator team has only been positive and community interaction of the guys are very appreciated.
I’ve allocated quite a lot of real estate on my blog for the Adgator ads, but the results has not been so good for the last 3 weeks. I’ve even started to think someone is discriminating against me 😉
At work we have a couple of bloggers using the Adgator network, and all of them are making money or some money, except me, and my blog traffic is in most cases 400% to 500% more than their blogs do. As I understand ads are delivered based on Geographical location as well, and currently will display banners to local South African users and not International. I do have a lot of international traffic, but also a fair share of local traffic.
As you can see for the last week I’ve had no income whatsoever, although the Cricket and IBM campaigns are running, and I’m just unlucky that it does not fall under my vertical, or could that be the reason ?
As a result of this, I’ve decided to only place a smaller banner on the site that takes up less of the real estate, and have replaced the original Adgator banner with a new banner where I’m seeing what type of feedback one will get with Offerforge’s campaigns.
Again, I’m not putting down Adgator, it is still a very good program, and I’m keeping space for their ads, but somehow I’m just unlucky being classified in the wrong categories and not see an advantage dedicating bigger space on my blog at this point, until new advertisers join which I hopefully fall under.
If Adgator do come out with an Affiliate or Referal program I’ll definitely promote that to maybe make money from other people 😉 .
Microsoft is delighted to announce the SharePoint Conference 2009 – the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies.There’s an exciting mix in the plans for this year. This year’s conference will be looking towards the future with a broad array of deep content centered on the next version of SharePoint, codenamed SharePoint “14†and at the same time be firmly planted in the present, sharing real world experience and guidance to help you maximize your investment in SharePoint Server 2007.
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If you’re an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Developer you’ll find a deep set of technical content to give you a kick start for SharePoint “14†and further your skills and knowledge with SharePoint Server 2007.
There has been speculation for the last couple of month that Monty Widenius (can you see the “Wild Genius”) has resigned from Sun Microsystems. And unfortunately the rumours are true.
After a fallout over the status of MySQL 5.1 Monty has finally left the company.
Extract from Monty’s personal blog :
In this case, the rumors had some elements of truth to them. I had told management that I thus would be submitting my resignation immediately as I strongly believed that the 5.1 release was not ready and that those problems needed to be fixed before it went GA. This action, together with other peoples´ efforts, did have the wanted effect and I made an agreement with Sun´s upper management to not initiate my resignation but instead stay around for three more months to help Sun work out things in MySQL Development and also give Sun a chance to create an optimal role for me within Sun.
This just makes me wonder if MySQL as a product is starting to slip a bit, and that the quality of the product may be in danger.
You can read more about Monty’s resignation on his blog here.
Last night I checked my Afrigator ranking, and found that my blog is now ranked 100th in South Africa.
This is the first time it has gone under 100, and has been hovering just above 100 for the last two weeks.
The target ? Top 25 by July …
In my ongoing quest to learn myself into other areas of IT in South Africa, I’ve started to see how I do by also just trying a my hand at a competition held between some internet gurus where you have to rank at the top spot on Google for the keywords “the coolest guy on the internet” (check ranking at the moment).
I’ve learned quite a lot from the other guys in South Africa and saw some real good ideas of how the guys get their SERPS up.
Here is a screenshot of the top guy at this point. At the moment I’m only on the third page. Some work still to be done, so if I get some time this week I’ll have a look what else I can do to get myself on top of the list for The coolest guy on the internet.
Guys participating in the competition:
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 Another new feature you can test drive on Gmail, works very nicely and increases the manageability of you mails.
Original Gmail blog post :
I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that’s how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the “flash” label first, then click on “paragliding,” etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once.
So when I heard about Gmail Labs, I started implementing a Labs feature in my 20% time that would help me (and you!) spend less time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one ‘inbox’ in your default Gmail view.
An image is worth a thousand words, so here’s what my inbox looks like:
In addition to a quick view of my important labels, I also like to keep all my starred and draft messages in separate panels.
After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings.
However you choose to use it, let us know how we can improve the Multiple Inboxes experiment — all feedback is welcome.
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