by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
This weekend I flew Cape Town Johannesburg and back on SAA. I was very impressed.
Everything went right, I did my booking using voyager miles that I accumulated over the years and paid a grand total of R175 for my return ticket. I cannot remember a single detail about the flight that was wrong, the air planes were nice and big inside, lots of leg room and overhead storage room. The staff was super friendly and helpful – even greeting in no less than 5 languages, the food we were served on both flights were very nice and the flights ran perfectly on time.
I misread my return ticket to Cape Town and so missed the flight, without a single hassle at all they booked me on a later flight, even waiving the R75 ticket change fee.
Excellent and a huge improvement from the last time I flew them, its good to know you actually get something for your extra money you would pay.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
Today I noticed my Windows Updated is telling me to update my Bookshelf Symbol 7 font and that it is marked critical. Immediately interested to know what is so critical about a font I read the knowledge base article which says:
A critical update is available to remove unacceptable symbols from the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font that is included with Microsoft Office 2003. The Bookshelf Symbol 7 font is contained in the Bssym7.ttf file.
After some googling I came across the following statement from Microsoft:
Microsoft has learned of a mistake in the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in the Microsoft Office System client applications. Due to an unintentional oversight, we failed to identify, prior to the release, the presence of two swastikas within the font. We apologize for this and for any offense caused. Microsoft is taking immediate measures to remedy the issue for all customers.
Some further reading up about it got me across the following blog posting where someone points at legit use of swastika’s, I think the world should just get over it and move on, this kind of censoring is insane.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 11, 2004 | Usefull Things
Robin Good has a piece called RSSTop55 – Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites.
It is a good selection of sites for submitting RSS feeds to and weblog URL’s that can be used to maximize your visibility, reach and exposure.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
I made the mistake of buying a return ticket to Johannesburg from Cape Town with kulula.com. The internet site was a bit broken but a few refreshes got it going again and I thought it would all be fine – I should have just given up here.
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by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 30, 2004 | Photography
I came across a site that has some very good free photoshop actions, the black and white conversion action is particularly great for giving full control of the final result to the user.
