Administrative notice

Looming full-time employment (and a significant daily commute) mean that blogging could become less frequent.

XP SP2 free CD

If, like me, you are stuck on a dial-up connection, and need to get a copy of Windows XP Service Pack 2, you can order it on a free CD from Microsoft.

Handball

I have been intrigued by team handball ever since I watched it on TV (I think it was during the All Africa Games held in Johannesburg).

More information, and the Wikipedia article.

eBucks password

I have a valid eBucks pin. However the eBucks website requires a password. I've been battling to figure out how to get from my pin to my password. I'm probably missing something obvious, but this is driving me crazy. If anyone knows, please email me, and I'll post the solution here.

Daily Links - 27/08/2004

• Jaw bone grown on man's back
• The evolution of Olympic throwing techniques
• Olympic stadium architecture
• Should South Africa follow Australia's example in restricting the sale of property to foreigners?
• Innocent American man freed after 40 years in prison
[via LRC blog]

Daily Links - 26/08/2004

• Some individuals are apparently outsourcing their jobs [via Mises Economics Blog]
• Sentech vs Telkom
• Innovation Hub takes shape
• RSS starts attracting investors
• Wave energy makes waves
• Install Perl, DBI and Perl MySQL driver on Windows
• Getting Windows to recognize a CD-RW drive that has been misidentified as a CD-ROM drive
  

Daily Links - 25/08/2004

• Choose your poison: Vitamin D deficiency or skin cancer. See also this for a discussion on the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and skin colouration
• Some links that I need to store:
• Wiki Engines
• Websphere and Wikis
• SnipSnap
• JSP Tutorial
• A new wireless internet provider

Pressure question answered

Colin at the corner office, has answered my question about the effects of altitude and air pressure on the transporting of goods:

To answer GP's question: it is a transport issue. My aunt's sister and her hubby did a stint a few years ago as truck drivers in the USA. Transporting packets of potato chips (crisps) from California to elsewhere can be a problem: if trucks take the mountain passes to get inland, the packets explode at high altitude, due to the much lower atmospheric air pressure. If I remember their story correctly, potato chips have to be transported around some of the mountain ranges, so's to keep the chip packets intact.

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Daily Links - 24/08/2004

• Outsourcing game playing
• More comments on dolomite and housing in Gauteng.
  
• When I went to the Kruger National Park, I didn't see a single lion, much less a buffalo kill
• Why Olympic beach volleyball sand doesn't come from a beach
• Reuters has picked up the story of Paul Meintjes, who, after dying seven weeks ago, remains dead
• Are South Africans willing to take risks overseas because they have learned to live with risk at home?

Daily Links - 23/08/2004

• Scalpers find customers in Athens despite low attendance
• South Ossetia - another Caucasus conflict
• Wayne Wides on new development in Buccleuch [pronounced Ber-kloo]
• South Asian nationalisms 57 years after partition