A little while back, Deal A Day got their fingers burnt when they SPAMMED the wrong people. Simon made a big fuss about it and word spread and action was taken. Deal A Day’s hosting of their site was suspended by their hosts Centeq (word up! and thanx to The Plonk) and they had to move.
Today I got a notification that their advertising campaign on Offerforge came to an end so I thought hang on, last time I checked they were stranded without a host? Turns out they are back online, hosted by the very people they used to spread their SPAM.
What I did find was a somewhat funny offer on their main page. They offer nothing that usually costs R2 for R1 plus postage and packaging that could be between R8 and R130. See for yourself!
I just hope they learned a lesson and will not send email offers to people that didn’t ask for it. All the best with selling that deal to anyone. Without employing SPAM tactics that is ;-).
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I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett’sDiscworld Novels. I’ve read most of them. The one character that got stuck in my head which gets a mention every now and again is an Ankh-Morpork landscape gardener and inventor called Bergholt Stuttley Johnson or better known as :
Bloody Stupid “It Might Look A Bit Messy Now But Just You Come Back In Five Hundred Years’ Time” Johnson
or
Bloody Stupid “Look, The Plans Were The Right Way Round When I Drew Them” Johnson
Imagine my surprise when I saw that Bloody Stupid Johnson had his own Wikipedia page! Gosh, I love the guy and his work! My favorites of his works are:
“…the hoho, which is a fifty foot deep ha-ha…”
“…the gargantuan beehive currently used as a pigeon coop in the absence of ten foot long bee…”
“…the ornamental trout lake, built 150 yards long, but, sadly, only one inch wide. It currently houses one trout that is quite content provided it doesn’t want to turn around. “Perfect for the dieting fish”…”
and
“…an ornate fountain which, upon being turned on, did nothing but groan ominously for several minutes before firing a small stone cherub a thousand feet into the air…”
You gotta love that!
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Rafiq wondered how much Vernon Koekemoer got paid for his appearance in Vodacom’s latest ad. I read in the Saturday Argus that he apparently got R20 000 for his appearance. I think Vodacom should be paying MUCH more for the legend!!!
Anyway, Wezzo, here is the proof, before you call me a liar!
Sorry for the quality of the pics, but I’m really too busy for all this!
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Who says COBOL is dying?! Here is a web development framework built with COBOL! Okay, fair enough, this is a day late :P, but looking at those pages in true legacy style made me smile. I used to support a financial package for municipalities called ABAKUS (developed by ICL. Anyone remember them?) a long time ago, and this brings back shivers to my spine!
This is another gem from xkcd.com! This is the reason why you should always sanitize your database inputs. You never know as you get some really geeky people out there that will name their kids like this. Come to think about it, should there ever be another one, I got some cool names in mind!
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Ok, either they are a bit mathematically challenged or they have some secret algorithm no one knows about… I went into Stumble today and saw that Grant added me as a friend. Immediately I went to his page, but oh deary me, I cannot add him as a friend as I’ve reached my 200 friend cap.
Thats odd, as on my page header it says that I only have 166 fans, which I always thought was the sum of your friends and the people you are a fan of.
When I go to my friends page, I see that in fact if I add my friends to the folks who I’m a fan of, I get 171.
Either I’ve missed a class or two of advanced mathematics (you know, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”) or there is bugs in their system or someone cannot add and subtract over there. Oh well, I’ll add you as a friend, Grant, as soon as they clear this little matter of maths. Which ever way, I’m still a big fan of Stumble!
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Sheesh have I ever felt like doing all this?! I bet you will feel a whole lot better right after you destroyed the piece of equipment up until your boss calls you in and fires you. Is it not funny how its always the monitor that gets the most flack? Shame.
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