- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]Yes, the camera does rule the west..
Dajaal has just one eye doesn’t he?
After painfully submitting proof of residential address docs for FICA to Standard Bank thrice already, I just received notice that my account is not FICA compliant. AAAArrrrghhh!!!
To make matters worse, I receive utility bills either via email or to my postal address because I don’t trust the post-box at my house, like most South Africans.
THEY (Standard Bank/FICA) don’t accept pdf documents as proof of residence! How backward can you be??? Its just ridiculous in this day and age. They want the “original” documents. I would change banks if I didn’t know already that the other banks suck as much.
Reason 4 leaving
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
– Samuel Butler
Freedom of Expression, a licence to kill
The media is not threatened by Muslims anger over the publication of those cartoons depicting the cartoonists impression of our Prophet (SAW). All the anger and reaction is just feeding the media monster, giving it more to report on and free advertising for those daring to re-print the cartoons, for example the cheap-shot Mail and Guardian article, which may even get a few more hits because of this reaction.
To quote a moulana at Mayfair Jummah masjid, “There’s a lesson in everything…” and one of the lessons from this event is that we as Muslims are partly responsible for giving the wrong impression of our Prophet (SAW). We boast that we try to imitate our Prophet’s ways and actions, but do we really do it wholeheartedly or do we just choose aspects which suit us? On the other hand, I don’t think that the cartoonist had any intention of portraying a true reflection. He simply expressed the view created by Bush and co., spread by the media and shared by much of the non-Muslim world.
In the end Freedom of Expression and Democracy will prevail as licences to kill, Human dignity and respect for humanity on the other hand will be the victim.
The Electromagnetic Wave-Mass continuum
What if EVERYTHING is made up of Electromagnetic waves? It maybe that mass as we know it is just made up of very very high frequency electromagnetic waves. The theory is consistent with the particle nature of light in that EM waves start to show matter-like properties as the frequency increases. Has anyone managed to measure/produce EM waves with frequencies beyond that of Gamma rays? (10^24Hz). It just sounds so simple that it probably is true! Occam’s Razor
RmEinstein was a genius….
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” — Albert Einstein
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Dubya is not….
“The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!”
–The first Presidential debate
“The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.”-Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003
Although I had planned to blog everything I learnt, it didn’t happen. Partly because I’ve learnt too many little things to blog. I finally settled for using JSP’s to create the UI. I created a lower layer of Javabeans, which the JSP’s talk to, which in turn talk to the mySQL database. If I think of anything worth blogging in retrospect I will, because I am..
scratch that whole entropy theory, this is life…. 
This blog has been commandeered for the purposes of mapping my technical journey, so lets get up to speed, I’ve been asked to develop a GUI for a Supply Chain Management Database, which resides on a FreeBSD box. I decided to use a web-based Java interface and will be looking at either JSP’s or Velocity. Considering the fact that I dont have a 4king clue about Java its going to be a challenge. Also will be using Hibernate for the database stuff.
I can’t think of a suitable URL for this blog,going to try ysfk….
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