Did you get "Pumped up for Summer" by sticking one of these on the back of your car...?

Now that this competition is long gone, I see tons of cars driving around JHB daily, with sticky globules left on their bootlids - faded remnants of the once brightly coloured stickers that enticed people to deface their cars originally... I think that BP must have used some hardcore industrial...

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Snapdisk - backup 500GB of data to the Cloud - 1 year free trial...!

Do you backup your data? If you are like a lot of people I speak to everyday, then you probably don't give it a second thought. Truth is, there are tons of things that could cause irreversible data loss.  Here are just a few of the more common ones: - hard drive failure (either through...

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Blog comment spam - a new kind of electronic annoyance...

I wrote a post at the end of last year with some snaps that I had taken at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, to show off some of the cool festive Christmas decorations that were going up at the time. You can view it here: http://nybblesandbytes.blogspot.com/2011/11/christmas-spirit-is-in-air.html So...

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Is "authentification" even a real word?

It is amazing how the regular misuse of common words in the English language (and probably other languages too), ultimately leads to corruption of the original word. A good example of this that I often come across, is the word "authentification". "Authentification" is not a real English word, people. The...

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