TechGeneral
I am Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist from Cape Town, South Africa.
Welcome to TechGeneral, my technology web log, where I talk about my wide-ranging interests in technology — you can see a bunch of the more common topics in the navigation above.
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November 10
- Griffin Clarifi: $35. Postage to South Africa: $140. twitter The Clarifi has a macro-focus lens for the iPhone camera that allows you to take recognisable photos of barcodes.
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November 03
- Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there? disqus "Definitely won't be day trading — just want to manage a portion of my portfolio myself. Too bad about the Standard Bank Online Share trading — having only a handful of blue-chip companies is probably going to remove it from the running in this case."
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October 01
- Re: http://nxsy.org/amazon-s3-storage-manager-for-knowledgetree disqus "You should probably contact the KnowledgeTree team — I seem to recall they were working on an S3 storage manager a while back."
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September 23
- Re: In San Francisco in October disqus "I haven't looked at Yelp, but Meetup looked pretty dismal for the period we're there. Also, it would be great to have you along to the Python user group. Pitching up at a new user group can be a bit daunting without backup. ;)"
- Re: In San Francisco in October disqus "Those two sites both look promising so far - thanks for the pointers!"
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September 22
- In San Francisco in October blog I'll be in San Francisco for about three weeks from early October. I'm looking for things to do in my spare time — conferences, user groups, and other geek get-togethers.
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September 15
- Further adventures in Sitemaps blog Some ideas on how to determine the values for metadata contained in sitemaps.
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September 13
- Disqus added a feature I requested in just over a day. (Might just be a coincidence, but I'll take credit and feel special...) twitter They added the update_thread API method, which allows you to change the title (as well as slug and commentability) of a comment thread.
- Running "easy_install readline" makes IPython not suck on OS X. twitter
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September 12
- Fetched 8233kB in 49710d 4h28min40s (0B/s) twitter It didn't feel that long... (time dilation effect from the LHC?)