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Pretoria is Pretoria

Pretoria is Pretoria

This is mainly for South-Africans. Go here to vote that the name change will not happen. It's unbelievable!

--- snip from one of the mails that brought http://www.pip.org.za/ to my attention ---

Let's keep our pretty Jacaranda City's name as Pretoria. It is going to
cost the government billions (yes, really) to change all that has to be
changed in order to rename our city. Money that can surely be better
spent on more worthy causes.

All you have to do is to vote no, against the changing of the name.
Click on the link below and vote "NO".

--- snip from one of the mails that brought http://www.pip.org.za/ to my attention ---



At the latest count, after my vote, 63728 are against and 4992 for the name change. Yet it is still a pressing issue. Not even 10 % of the population wants it to go forward. The world knows our the capital by this name but still they want to change it to a name the world wouldn't waste half a second to forget.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense
Make money with ads! OK, I know I'm receiving very few hits, and the few that I do receive are from me. This is just an experiment. Maybe I get lucky. Or not... What the hell, its free, and it makes the website look a bit fuller :)

PHP inside post test

Burning question: Does php work within a post or the template? If so, Yeah! And also, eek! Security? Anyhow, if there is a "Hello world!" below, it worked...


echo "Hello world!"
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mozdev.org - googlebar: index

mozdev.org - googlebar: index

Users of Windows and Linux can now add a proper googlebar to their Mozilla and other browser windows to perform Blog this and other google related operations. Really cool! This post was done with the googlebar Blog this button!

So this is a blog...

OK, so I have another blog elsewhere, but it seems I just don't seem to settle anywhere. Maybe the idea that someone I know can find the blog bothers me - and no, my friends are cool, but there are always professional ties that one would like to keep professional.

From my experience in Internet dating I've found that it is all too easy to track someone down on the web - yah, it was me doing the tracking, not in a stalker kinda way mind you, and it was just so easy. People leave footprints all over the place.

One example of this is a specific young lady (maybe a bit young for me) that I traced - In a dramatic fit of boredom I decided to see if there are any traces of her on the Internet. I started with her nickname on the site and managed to link her to another site where she likes to blog on occation. From there I had some details about her life such as her studies, and later approximately where she works - and I say approximately, because I've narrowed it down to the subburb and with some certainty to 3 different companies. I was still not satisfied and decided to continue with the quest and eventually managed to secure her cellphone number... No, no... I didn't call her. From here on pretty much anything about her life can be found including where she lives.

Granted, from experience I've found that pretty asian girls (no offense to anyone intended) are much more likely to attract the attention of others, especially if they are talented and very open in their blogs. This leads them to reveal small amounts of information that may be very helpful in linking them with other information on the web. It's a simple case of correlating a number of pages and picking out the jucy bits.

So, thats my reason for not settling. Maybe I'll become comfortable with the idea of everyone knowing my personal details, but for now...

Anyway, this was not the intended first post, but anyone who happens on this, please, be my guest and give me your insight into the troubling phenomenon which is online footprints.