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Well, the good thing is that I got a quick response. Copied below.

Please be advised that there is no problem with the vodacom4me website. Please contact the manufacturer of your operating system. Kind regards, Vodacom Customer Care (name excised).

Thank god, the site is fine! I better have a quick chat with my operating system manufacturers, though. They've really fucked up.

I was trying to use the Vodacom4Me service the other day to check out my call logs, as I lost my phone on Friday night. So I head off to the site, and get landed with a "Not logged in" error - no login form or anything. Turns out that, in their wisdom, the Vodacom developers have done a UserAgent scan which basically says "if you're not on Windows, you're on a cellphone", and sends you the mobile version of the page.

I've been playing the Solitaire on my luverly 80gig Video iPod for a while now (disclaimer: when I have absolutely nothing else to do), but had yet to complete a game. Perhaps the iPod one is just more difficult than the typical implementation, or perhaps I just suck at Solitaire. Who knows. But today my luck changed: I just broke this awful losing streak!

Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

Especially the scaling section. I have been ruminating on things which may work nicely when integrated with Facebook, but hadn't seriously considered the implications of droves of people liking anything I created, a situation which offers two choices: #1 spending craploads on hosting, or #2 stopping.

I wonder what restriction options are available? Can you offer your app to, for example, only friends? Have a moderation system? What are the choices here?

So, quick poll: who else here can instinctively recognize the MD5 sum for 'password'?

Two (no, three) upcoming events in the moderately geeky circles.

CC Party at the Armchair

First up is the Creative Commons talk at the always great Armchair Theatre. I was going anyway as, well, I kind of live at the Armchair, but today in my inbox I found a very attractive invite, which I have reproduced below (click for a bigger version):

...when women are growing nipples on their feet. Now doesn't that just give out a warm feeling inside? Or even outside.

In other news, please take a moment today to think about good ol' Ted Kaczynski, and his great The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future. Even if you don't necessarily agree with it. (Edit: ... as he was arrested on this day)

I've never liked MySpace, for multiple reasons. It's horrible to look at, horribly coded, and feels vaguely like some puritan's apocalyptic vision of a society rapidly decomposing into a pile of maggoty fecal matter. That, of course, is just my opinion.

So when someone invited me to join Facebook the other day, I was hesitant - aren't all of these social sites pretty much the same? Apparently not.

I was going to post something about the geekdinner, and, after that, a long rant about cigarettes, addiction, drugs, politics, and friends long dead, but it won't happen tonight. Instead I want to paste in something I wrote about four years ago for Africans.co.za called Tetris!:

I keep being reminded that I'm not writing enough. But good news! I'm not doing anything else I'm supposed to be doing either! That should make for something.

Got quite a bit of work which has been waiting around for ages - building a micro-finance application on top of KnowledgeTree. It's semi-interesting: mainly revolves around roles and workflows, but also uses the document content to store JSON serialized info with has been gathered via a number of forms. But that's not going too well, due to time and motivational restraints.