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Mixed up letters – Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

I just came across this on the Interwebs, it actually turned out to be an urban ledgend buy it appears to work at least for shorter words, fascinating none the less!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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Mom’s new car – Hyundai Atos (AKA, The little pregnant roller skate)

Ladies and Germs, I give the the Hyundai Atos “a city car” my mom just bought. This is what R69000 ($10000) gets you in sunny South Africa. No Airbags, no ABS and stability control, forget it! I I inquired about the Euro Ncap saftey rating and my mom just laughed at me – South African’s don’t need none of those safety nannies!! My mom added that she’s been driving on some of the most dangerous roads in the world for the past 30 years in an old BMW320i sans airbags and ABS! Yeah, BooYah! BooooooYahhhh go South Africa!

Upgrading Drupal modules – Caveats and lessons learnt

I just breathed a sigh of relief and patted myself on the back for being so dumb and yet oh so smart!

Bush Limo breaks down in Rome

Poor George, on a recent scenic jaunt through Rome his limo broke down and he was forced to get out and jump into another one. Silliness aside, did you know that the Cadillac DTS he drives is not really a caddy but a vehicle based on a GM truck chassis with a specialized engine, built by a company now owned by the Brit defense contractor BAE. So have a chuckle and learn an interesting fact for use at your next cocktail party (George Bush’s Limo is a British assembled truck that is prone to breaking downs when in Rome).

The Economic Argument for Taking a Gap Year: Controlling the Educational Debt for Students and Parents 

It is no surprise that the cost of attending college in the US has become an absurdly expensive proposition for students and parents, across the socioeconomic spectrum. This fact alone, is forcing millions of American families to re-evaluate how this investment is made.

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Canyoneering Trip Report, Spring 2007 in Escalante, Utah


Below are my perosnal notes on a Canyoneering trip I took to the Escalante region in southern Utah during the Memorial day weekend 2007. Feel free to add comment at the end and contact me personally if you want to know more about the outdoor group I belong Chaos Boulder. We normally takes a jaunt down to the slot canyons in southern Utah in the Spring and Fall each year. On this trip I was sans my biatch Dan so I rode with AJ. We left Boulder at about 4pm getting there at around 1.30am.

Find and download free MP3 music online with Google

We all know how useful Google is in finding stuff but most of us don’t know that there is much more to Google than meets the eye. To harness the full power of Google you need to speak a special language, special commands you type in the Google search box to expand it’s functionality. I’m going to show you one such string of commands that will command Google to go forth and search the Interwebs for MP3’s, yes free music! I’ll start off by giving you the entire string of commands to instruct google to search for MP3 files.

Introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS) and Drupal

Introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS)

If you ever dabbled in building a website you know how time consuming it can be to build the pages from scratch, especially if you’re hand coding them. Most people will opt to use a website building tool like Adobe’s Dreamweaver or Microdsoft’s Frontpage. Some hosting compnies also offer ways to build website using their web based building tools e.g. Godaddy’s “Website Tonight”.

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Manchester Bus Lanes – ouch!

The city of my birth, Manchester, has decided to get tough on drivers who illegally use bus lanes. The solution is simple, drive in the bus lane when you’re not supposed to and they’ll deploy their secret weapon from below the surface of the road causing your vehicle to make an abrupt stop! For those […]

Don’t make a monkey out of GW!

Take one website called The St Andrews Face Transformer, a picture of our prez GW bush and some infantile intentions and here’s what you get. You upload a pic of your choice, run their little Java program on it and choose what you want the poor bastard to look like when the programs has had it’s way with the photo. In my case I choose 50% ape! Come on GW, stop monkeying around!