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  • Date: July 25th, 2007
  • Time: 9:10 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 4

World Clock - World Statistics

Obviously none of this information is guaranteed to be 100% accurate and uptodate, however it gives some pretty hectic food for thought, especially when you compare the birth vs death ratio. The amount of deaths due to AIDS/HIV is pretty shocking too…

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  • Date: July 25th, 2007
  • Time: 8:56 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Awesome New Bud Light Commercial - The Swear Jar

Again, Bud Light have stepped up to the plate and have come up with another hilarious TV ad. This one’s entitled, ‘The Swear Jar’.
 
 

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  • Date: July 19th, 2007
  • Time: 10:51 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

Drive Thru ATM’s - Men vs Women

A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads:

“Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles.

Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.”

After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE procedures have been developed. Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender.”

MALE PROCEDURE:

Drive up to the cash machine.
Put down your car window.
Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
Enter amount of …

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  • Date: July 18th, 2007
  • Time: 4:44 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

Why Computers Sometimes Crash

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket at a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the packet pocket socket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data are corrupted ‘cos the index doesn’t hash,
Then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the …

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  • Date: July 16th, 2007
  • Time: 10:19 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

The Art of Proper Image Cropping

As this graphic shows, correct cropping of an image is truly vital. By eliminating needless parts of the image, you’re able to better convey the contents of the image whilst providing the viewer with a pleasing representation.

**Click the image to view the uncropped version**

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  • Date: July 11th, 2007
  • Time: 6:35 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 10

Why Men Are Happier

What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have …

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  • Date: July 10th, 2007
  • Time: 2:35 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 4

10 reasons to GET OFF Facebook

You are at a bar or club and you suddenly realise you recognize someone. You can’t figure out how and then it dawns on you… You have never met this person before, but have spent a considerable amount of time lookingat their facebook!
After meeting someone your conversation somehow leads to - “So, are you on Facebook?”
You do not call people anymore, you post comments and send messages through facebook.
You determine how cool people …

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:57 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Nelson Mandela Bay

A new and much anticipated initiative to create a reversal of the braindrain on Port Elizabeth was launched this year. NelsonMandelaBay.biz is the front of this drive and it aims to create a better awareness of the wonders that is Port Elizabeth. As this is my current home town, I was privileged to be given the chance of designing this site and thus far the response has been quite positive.

XHTML
CSS (with exceptions due to OpenAds)
OpenAds
BBClone
Wordpress

Visit the NelsonMandelaBay.biz website

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:50 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Kidz Africa

After the first redesign forever ago, we approached James and he agreed to go ahead with a fresh new look for his Kidz Africa website. After some deliberation, we decided to jump to the opposite side of the spectrum with a darker color scheme that encorporates a richer feel and has a slicker, more professional appeal.

A nice selection of stock photography, combined with a randomizing PHP script, creates a fresh feel with new pictures on every page.

Photoshop
XHTML
CSS
WP
iStock Photography

Visit the …

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:44 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

WikkidApps

I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of awesome web based applications that are being developed. With technologies like Ruby on Rails, AJAX, XML powered Flash… etc, companies and developers alike are churning out awesome web applications every week. The more applications I uncovered, the more I realized that a showcase was needed.Thus WikkidApps was born.

Photoshop
XHTML
CSS (with exceptions because of OpenAds)
OpenAds
BBClone Stats Monitoring

Visit the WikkidApps website

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Blog News & Articles

What’s being loaded into this plane?

Its a hard disk in 1956.... HDD with 5MB storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Start appreciating your 1 GB memory ...

The WordPress Guru is launched

For the last 4 or 5 years that I've been using WordPress, I've managed to pick up a good few tips and tricks. 90% of my clients are sites who require content management systems, not blogs. And thus I've been able to create highly tweaked ...

A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake…

A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for awhile, he yells to the waiter, 'Hey, you want to hear a blonde joke? The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. ...

Looking for trouble…

Best part is when the dog looks up at the cat like... WTF are you doing...

26 Reasons why dogs bite people

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Examples of Kulula attendants’ sense of humor

Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some Real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, ...

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