Chronicals of… a developer in Johannesburg

It appears that my favourite plug-in is not working anymore.

Picdonkey allows you to simply put a [thumb] tag around any link and it automatically creates a thumbnail.

This made my day.

FREE PORN was loaded onto our ruling party’s website! It’s like hacking the government.

http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/Politics/1057/cbf3b830e15c411ca39c8b083a37ec29/19-07-2009%2010-07/ANC_site_hacked_-_offers_porn

Using the System.Web class you can encode url’s to a nice pretty version.

http://www.vcskicks.com/encode-url.php

Thanks to this site for helping me as I was trying to do some encodeing in a windows service, but I hadn’t manually loaded the reference. Therefore VS was not picking up the HttpUtility class.

I was making my lunch toastie and came across this in one of the slices!

Called Pick n Pay. Let’s see how this goes…

UPDATE: Called them again this morning, apparently it has been escalated to the food something department (just lost the word). Waiting for a call back still.

UPDATE: The phrase was food technologist. He called me, and I explained to him that the fly was inside the cheese. I have been advised to get a refund… is that all I get? Go back to a shop I wont go to again, to get less than R30. eish.

A Hello World for Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode18DeepZoomSeadragonSilverlight2MultiScaleImageMouseWheelZoomingAndPanningEdition.aspx

Looking at chipping my Wii. These guys collect and devliver for free.

They need a bit of an updated website though…

http://www.defcon5.co.za/common/wii_modchips.html