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In the land of webdom, the strings of information sat idle in their
kingdoms while packets came in and out to feed the non-binary friends
of data.

Have I got your attention?
How many times do we judge the content of things by reading the
labels, titles, or seeing the graphics, photos, faces, etc.?

I'll let you think on that, while you read some funny things i found
via the web...

On facebook I saw my good friend Bruce write about his needs - I
thought, hey?! Bruce has needs besides the ones he sometimes shares? -
I clicked and read {I picked and ate}
It was funny needs, not the usual needs one finds everyday. They were
googled needs and I had good fun reding his "needs" that I tried it on
myself!

The idea is to google "yr_name needs" and make a note of the top 10
results. So I googled "Malcolm needs" and got bored with the results -
Malcolm Needs is a guy - his name is Malcolm and his surname is Needs.
Next I tried my popular short name, Malcs. "Malcs needs" only got two
results. Finally I tried a name that only a few of my friends call me,
Malc. This got my funny bone laughing so loudly that my elbow
complained to my brain.

These are the top 10 results for "Malc needs" and my comments are
within [square] brackets:
1. Malc needs help !!
2. Malc needs smackers... 2 years ago. [huh? crayons perhaps?]
3. Malc needs to be on the weekly morning slot we all need a ...
[haha, true in a mean way...]
4. Malc needs to have a better game than Vasquez, and we need to
rebound well. [no comment..]
5. Malc needs to get the point. [yes..haha, guess i do]
6. Malc needs Pen Pals [see that? PEN, not email!]
7. Malc needs YOU(r telephone numbers) [do i?]
8. Malc needs to address this as Emily has had no response. [almost
answering my above query...]
9. Malc needs to read up a bit more on the benefits of saturated fats.
[ah ye..so they finally figured i'm not fat?]
10. Malc needs your help ! [indeed i do!]

I made the comment to Bruce that he should try the same using the
Pages from South Africa option.
I did the same, but Malc and Malcs returned nothing, so I used
"Malcolm needs" - not as funny, but fun anyway!
1. Malcolm Needs; Actors alongside
2. (Malcolm Needs); Poseidon Adventure
3. Malcolm needs to attend a funeral in Cape Town and will be away for
a full week. [haven't been to Cape Town in years]
4. Malcolm Needs by Anne Taylor.
5. Malcolm Needs and Starring... [yawn]
6. Malcolm Needs Producer [so I can launch my short filming career]
7. Malcolm Needs Proteus
8. Malcolm Needs Citizen Verdict
9. Malcolm Needs [it's open ended]
10. Malcolm Needs – Enigma Pictures

I needed to spice this up, so went onto the second page:
A. Malcolm Needs Video casette.
B. Malcolm, needs to be opened to see the quality.
C. Malcolm needs to develop self-esteem and confidence to meet the
right woman... [more confidence than self-esteem]

Have your eyes run away from facebook? Those ads on facebook look bad
in my eyes - dumb double images, 4btw.

Lastly, my friendships with people I made while on Ignite last year
are taking strain. I didnt quite realise what it would do to me if I
started working. Sure, I got friendships developing at the office, but
I'm wasted after work hours sometimes. I think it is because I have so
much fun. I do what I really enjoy - hands on technical with linux.
GUI is cool, but text is better..... I don't want my friendships to
disappear, so I've decided to come to youth on Fridays when I can so
that I can maintain friendships and develop new friendships!

Don't judge, period. As christians(disciples of Jesus) we should be
the example setters and refrain from judging books, sites, people,
food, etc. just from first glance.

As I finish these strings of informative characters, I'll dump them
into the idle kingdoms of the world wide web.

Writers' block

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Banjo stuff and A career change!!

At long last,

I found a reliable stockist of finger and thumb picks. And banjo straps!
I've tried using a strap from my Bible case, but it kept sliding down and I need the banjo up to get my fingers to the correct positions.

Until next week when I go to King Louis Musical Instruments, who are in town and sell any instrument at a great price (012 327 0442/3), I'll keep learning chords and their structure as well as scales!

I've decided to make IT my career. This means my studies stop at Bth - I'm not sure what I want to study. I've got interests in many fields and I'd like to get a degree higher than a diploma - but I'm no academic, I'm a hands on guy. I've got a gift for technical things.

I'd love to be challenged to install something complex from a non-English country where, when they publish manuals in English, they speak more Russian or French than English!

Office 2007 sucks potatoes and stinks like poo

So I'm editing the notices on the website and to get things done quicker, I figure I would rather type without looking at the screen - during the holidays I lost my ability to touch-type...
My Mom calls from the kitchen for me to put the dishes away, so I decide to finish the sentence and press save. I look up and see to my horror that I TYPED EVERYTHING IN UPPER-CASE!! Quick on the thinking blocks, I start up wORD (drop cap intended) and paste the text. After highlighting it I franticly look for the change case option that I normally find under the drop down menus.

^#&@^%@&^$#$@^%#$@^#^$!&@^#*$^*#^@*!*!*@^*!*^@*!^*^@*!*@*&@&!*#^#%^&!%@!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right-clicking didn't work. Although after studying the odd graphical icons, and mouse'ing over, I found the horrid change case button. I got up in a fit and peacefully helped my Mom...

Sure, office 2007 is great for the person who's used it for ever and a day, but for a newbie or someone used to office 2000 or 2003...it sucks potatoes and stinks like poo - even worse, Open Office 3 is far better than office 2007 as it works on older hardware whereas office 2007 dries up every bit of memory and spits out dung.

So now that I have the text changed, I copy and paste it into the editor. But the font is different, so I reveal the source and find a page and a half of worthless markup. So now office has gone from a text document editor to a "I know what you want to do" package that by default copies not only the text, but all the bitters that go with it. but, but, but. No. It shouldn't insert markup like it does. Imagine if for every second paragraph I had to insert it from wORD. The source for my webpage would be multiples of style blocks and other markup, making the final saved page into a huge file. If I used notepad and saved the same file with all the fancy fonts and structure of the page my file would be alot smaller, but it's far more easier to paste text into the editor on the website.

My biggest complaint is the iconified office package that costs a mint, does its own thing and takes longer to learn than Blender or Adobe Premiere!

No, I'm not anti- Windows. I just use linux as I don't own a licensed copy of Windows. I was SUSE, but now I'm Ubuntu. I was KDE, but now Gnome. See where I'm going?
(Terminals kick ass better than GUIs)

Support Open Source, I do and live like a King!