Fuck Volvo
Fuck Volvo
Remembering the old web
Recently on some or other social network (probably the elephant as opposed to the butterfly), I engaged with someone about the PayPal Honey debacle. If you’re unaware, you can watch a video on the red site. The conversation isn’t important. What’s important is that I miss the old web. I miss that it took threeContinue reading Remembering the old web
On going round in circles
Let’s talk about the 2021 screwjob, which is a reference to the Montreal Screwjob in 1997. Look it up. A lot of people don’t like Lewis Hamilton. He comes across a certain way that a lot of folks don’t like. When he first started racing back in 2007, I was really impressed with his driving,Continue reading On going round in circles
JK Rowling is anti-trans
Today, Jo removed all doubt. Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill If you need to understand why this is bad, readContinue reading JK Rowling is anti-trans
Mailgun is a terrible company and it has nothing to do with their technical ability
There’s a saying that if something makes you angry you should wait before writing about it. In June 2016, I signed up my company in South Africa with Mailgun, and shortly thereafter connected a subdomain so we could send emails. We didn’t need 10,000 emails. Rather, we send between 50 – 100 a month, evenContinue reading Mailgun is a terrible company and it has nothing to do with their technical ability
This made my day
One of the best sites on the Internet is also one of the most toxic. No, I’m not talking about Twitter, but Stack Overflow. In previous posts I’ve referenced my own issues with the Stack network, and a few years ago I cancelled my account entirely due to the toxicity of some of its membersContinue reading This made my day
Flipboard and the case of usability that doesn’t care about you
I’m a regular user of Flipboard, the app that tells me what’s happening in the world that isn’t Twitter. I have a carefully curated list of interests. One of the things I do with my lovely spouse is share links using Flipboard. In the user interface on my iPhone (I don’t use it elsewhere), thereContinue reading Flipboard and the case of usability that doesn’t care about you
Don’t be rude
I have an online stalker. This is nothing unusual in the age of the Internet. I had a stalker back in the late 1990s as well. The first one was someone who fell madly in love with me through IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and devised extremely weird ideas on how we could be together, despiteContinue reading Don’t be rude
I smite thee, spammers
As the founder of the Smiters of Iniquity, I hereby smite all spammers. Yesterday, ncane.com and I were targeted by spammers, where a spam email went out to (I expect) thousands of people, purporting to be from me (including my personal details from public DNS records), and a short URL generated by ncane.com. An over-eagerContinue reading I smite thee, spammers
South Africa is bankrupt
If you believe all the news, we’re completely bankrupt. There’s no money to fix potholes and traffic lights in Johannesburg, with the (2010® FIFA® World® Cup®)®* fast approaching. There’s no money to run and maintain Eskom, our electricity provider. There’s no money for the pebble-bed nuclear reactor in the Cape. Then there’s the wonderful storyContinue reading South Africa is bankrupt