Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Been to Venice? Better go soon before it disappears beneath the waves...!

I received these photos of Venice in my Inbox yesterday - I gather they were taken during the December 2009 spate of floods, during which water levels rose approx. 1.5m, which is pretty darn significant... Venetians are no strangers to the "acqua alta" (high water), as the city itself is built in the...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Edward Maya - Stereo Love. What an awesome track!

I heard this track played on the radio recently and I finally tracked the details down today. Stereo Love is the 2009 debut single of Romanian musician Edward Maya, featuring Vika Jigulina. It's one of those clubby tracks that will probably grow old pretty fast, but for the time being...

What does "Armageddon" mean to you?

I often refer to a classic passage from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. The passage speaks about bad news, and how nothing travels faster. To quote the late genius himself: "One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed...

A funny photo in Clarens :)

I spent some time in Clarens recently - what a wonderful little town. It reminds me a lot of Franschhoek, in terms of the coffee shops, restaurants and art galleries lining the main street through the town, and just the general arty vibe of the place. It also has a fascinating history - read up...

Monday, March 29, 2010

New Nedbank scam mail - and this one is still very active so watch out...!

Re all my ramblings recently about ABSA scam mails being sent around, it seems that no bank is off limits here - just got this Nedbank one in my Inbox a few minutes ago. I am not going to re-hash all of the many ways to tell if this is a fake mail, or how to avoid getting caught by these losers,...

Thursday, March 25, 2010

The most irritating part of Windows XP...

I love Windows XP. Well, I don't actually LOVE it in the traditional sense of the word, but man oh man it stands out as one great operating system. Sure, it has already been double-eclipsed by the likes of Windows Vista (aaarrgghhhh!) and Windows 7 (...hmmm not doing too badly so far!). Even so, many...

Friday, March 19, 2010

Is MWEB giving out Uncapped ADSL to existing customers?

So is this for real? Are MWEB ADSL customers getting upgraded to Uncapped ADSL at no extra cost? Well so says an email I received from them earlier today... to quote: "GREAT NEWS: Your MWEB ADSL account will be upgraded to Uncapped ADSL by the end of April. Even better, you won't be paying a cent more than you are now! MWEB Uncapped ADSL gives...

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Update on the latest ABSA scam mail...

Yup, you guessed it. I got another one in my inbox today. I wonder if the scammers have been reading my blog, because they have changed their tactic slightly... The latest mailer is identical to the previous one in appearance, except for one thing - the embedded hyperlink APPEARS to be legit - it appears as http://www.absa.co.za/absacoza/internet-banking/ within the mail. So you may be thinking...

Monday, March 15, 2010

ABSA is the spammers bank of choice!

So here we go again... re my last post about fake ABSA mailers going around, here is the latest rendition, fresh from my inbox this morning: If you read my last post, I made some recommendations about how to pick up if a banking email is fake or not... let's put this one to the test: - it seems...

Friday, March 12, 2010

Places to stay for your next vacation...

I receive newsletters from Tripadvisor every so often, and most recently I received one entitled "Astonishing Amenities", so naturally it grabbed my interest. Astonishing indeed.... just check out what these amazing hotels and resorts have to offer: http://www.tripadvisor.com/InfoCenter-a_ctr.amenitiesUK Mouth-watering...

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Up is one awesome movie

Man oh man it has been a while since I last saw a movie that I really enjoyed... Then recently I watched UP (one of Pixar's recent releases), and I must say that it did not disappoint. On the contrary I was left with a warm fuzzy feeling, after approx. 90 minutes of a wonderfully original...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

ABSA scammers are at it again...

I just received this lovely email from ABSA THEMSELVES!! YES - THIS MAIL SAYS "ABSA" ON IT SO IT MUST BE FROM ABSA!! Guys and gals, please don't get caught here - if you do in fact click on the link in the email, you will be taken to a fake ABSA site - what actually happens is that you are viewing...

What is the capital of Brazil?

Here's a question that I thought I knew the answer to... What's the capital of Brazil? Hmmm that's easy! Or is it? What's that you said - Rio de Janeiro? Nope... it is in fact Brasilia! I was a bit surprised I must admit... I thought "Brasilia" sounded a bit like a made up name...

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Jub Jub's dice with death...

Remember Jub Jub? He was the guy I posted about in January, after he wussed out of Survivor South Africa with an apparent groin disorder of some sort... Well now his groin troubles are the least of his worries. Turns out that yesterday, young Jub Jub and a friend were having a "dice" in Soweto, in...

Monday, March 8, 2010

Why do teenagers walk around with their cellphone speakers blaring?

Something I see a lot of nowadays, especially in malls etc., are teenagers who slither around with a cellphone in their hand, blaring out some arb music. Cellphone speakers are at best, rubbish. You can barely hear what the heck is going on when you play music through them at high volume. So what's the point? Does it imply some kind of "street cred" if you can flaunt your cellphone while churning...

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Which car would you rather be in...? Watch this...

I have heard a lot of people say that older cars are built better, safer and harder than new cars, which essentially means that they would rather be in an older generation car than one of our new generation Euro NCAP tested cars, in the event of a serious accident. Hmmmm. I guess the argument comes...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

100 days to go... and so we update our Nybbles and Bytes Poll :)

So today marks 100 days until the kick-off of the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, and we are all totally stoked and gearing up for the most amazing time ever! Soccer shirts everywhere, South African flags flying high and all that :) I'm not going to expand on the exhausing amount of...

Nybbles and Bytes... what does "nybble" mean anyway?

So here I am merrily posting away randomly every week, and I never stopped to think that my blog visitors might actually be wondering why the heck my site is called "Nybbles and Bytes"... Well for starters, a "nybble", as defined by Wikipedia is "a four-bit aggregation" i.e. half a byte (in computing terms). Nybble can also be spelt "nibble", but "nybble" is more in keeping with its' counterpart,...

Dubai gets the Sol Kerzner touch...

Check out one of Sol Kerzner's latest escapades in Dubai - Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai. It was opened in September 2008, so it's kinda old news but still a feast for the eyes. For detailed info visit the Wikipedia page about the resort. I was just blown away by this eye-candy of the place: ...and...
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