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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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Ah, the plot thickens.
Yeah, let's hope they bother to dig deep enough to find out exactly what the set-up was.
BTW, to deter drivers who use their cellphones (while driving) further, the fine in the UK is to be doubled to £60 (approx R840) towards the end of February, but even more effective is that the offence can now cause 3 points to be taken off one's driver's licence, ie. a quarter of your points. It can take a few years to regain the points...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6287005.stm
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Thanks guys..was a good quiet day, other than working my ass off...the cake and tart and stuff was good, but my friends always complain that it is way too sweet.
Sorry for not commenting on the pictures...first have to log in, but i am on field now, so I log in via any one of about 100+ computers. At least there is aircon where I am sitting, and I mean AIRCON! It is HUGE, and it helps when there are not students in class. Yep, I am at Cornwall, our rich school again.
Talking about the book shortage, one of the teachers mentioned something about some parents holding down 3 jobs to keep their kids in this school. And that the result of the school system being what it is. I must say, this school is nice, a great place, lots of activities and school spirit and all that. Well, at 17-28k (about 17 for gr0 or 1, not sure which, and 28k for gr.12) One of the teachers approached me today to try to find out how she can get a chat room in Mxit used for teaching purposes for university students. These people take technology serious and in the way of how to apply it to education. Think the kids get their homework smsed to them, or if not, will soon. Will be interested in seeing how education and mobile technology integrate in the next few years.
Crap, have to now try to get this smart board working...cool toy;-)
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francoislr
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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@ wanqa, that picture is incredible! Wow!
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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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wanqa, you should be posting those lovely pics in the picture section of esato. I see you haven't posted any pics there, it's a crime.
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francoislr
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Oh yeah, talking about the phone/driving thing, Paul, my pal got the camera a day or two ago on the way to cornwall. He was on the phone. Should make a great picture, and a lovely fine. He has a bluetooth headset, but he just does not want to use it. Really stupid, if you ask me.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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@ da brixsta,
LOL, I guess I should pull my finger out a bit and post some of the pics in that photo section.
As is obvious I guess, I do enjoy capturing pics that have either interesting compositions or focal points, or that pretty much tell a story in itself. As the old saying goes, a picture can be worth a thousand words.
I find the pics we post add an important visual dimension to such a thread, whether cellphone-related or about life here in general, rather than just another text-only based forum,
'Bumping' a major thread like ours, if/ when topics get a bit thin, with cellphone pics acts as a relevant (ie.phone-related) way to keep the ball rolling, and hopefully inspires some interest. 
@ Francois,
It's the same here boet, I see the occasional Bluetooth-equiped driver, but there's still too many wallies out there with the latest cellphones who still don't bother with a Bluetooth headset, despite how relatively inexpensive they are...certainly a lot cheaper than a fine.
Yeah, I'm all for these new regulations.
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jmash
Joined: Jan 18, 2006
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From: Nelspruit,South Africa
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Eish,lt's so quite around here today.I wonder what's everybody's up to.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Yup, seems to be one of those 'more going on in my left nostril' days around here.
Very busy at work at the moment.
Good to see the Proteas making in-roads on Day 1 at Newlands.
Will check in later when the work pressures aren't as demanding.
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wazarmoto
Joined: Sep 07, 2005
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From: South Africa.
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hi guys. im back from my honeymoon. mauritius was too class!! amazing and beautiful country. i missed reading this forum.
@ brix I dont think Vodacom is gonna bring their data rates down anytime soon. But i did hear it will come down hopefully by the end of the year. maybe then ill be able to save some money and get a permanent 3g/hsdpa modem instead of connecting using my phone the whole time. its a bit expensive. |
amawanqa
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Welcome back, wazarmoto!
Sounds like you chose the right place for your honeymoon. Dare I ask how many stunning, scenic postcard-type photos were taken?  Wish I was in Mauritius right now...
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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welcome back wazarmoto, glad all was good...wish you all the joy and hapiness for your life together;-)
I have been doing the admin thing all day...lots of work!
Okay, so i mentioned the mxit thing with education? Well, anyway, the one lady I am working with here at the school is either doing research regarding education using mobile communications for someone to do with Tukkies. Her project involves getting mobile devices involved in a chat room via mig33(very nice little app...excellent for msn) or mxit. Think mxit won't work for it. But the big thing is being able to log these chats that happen. The problem is, it is easy to log 1-1 chats, but to have logs of mobile chats in a chatroom is another thing. Up to 12 people needs to be involved, mxit is limited to 7, and there is no way of logging. Mig33 can have 25 people in a room, but also the logging problem. Anyone know a way past this? Any help or info regarding this would be most welcome.
Aparently the older kids at this school considers mxit an amateur applications, one that the little kids use, and they all prefer mig33. I loaded mig33 on my phone for the first time (it sucked on my previous phone) and i must say I am impressed! VOip, msn and yahoo compatability(the msn stuff works nicely) I would recommend all you guys into chat clients check it out.
A bunch of informative articles:
Cell users 'punished' for switching
http://www.neotel.co.za/neote[....]en/page132?oid=36664&sn=Detail
Number portability boosts Cell C
http://www.neotel.co.za/neote[....]en/page132?oid=36665&sn=Detail
South Africans revolt against high phone charges
http://www.neotel.co.za/neote[....]en/page132?oid=36721&sn=Detail
Okay, that is my R4573-89c
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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From: Port Elizabeth, S.Africa
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Wanqa, bloody beautiful pic there boet! It definitely belongs in the photo section, as Brix mentioned. Really good work man!
We've been roasting to death here over the past few days. The temp right now has just topped 39, and the discomfiture index is currently at 110 which means ppl are advised to stay indoors and keep cool, etc.
Regarding stationery, ho and hum seem to be the most appropriate words to use. For a school of nearly 600 mostly-impoverished kids, two boxes containing 288 A4 exercise books just won't cut the mustard  But hey, the Dept. assures us, via the media, there's no problem... yeah rite Naledi, pull the other one, it has bells on it...
Wazar, good to hear you had a pleasant honeymoon, bro. Would really be brilliant if flat data rates could be implemented here. There doesn't seem to be any reason why such rates can't be implemented, imho. I'd chalk the reluctance of the networks up to greed, in the absence of valid reasons why they can't implement such options.
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francoislr
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Anyone with Windows Mobile? Check this out: Mozilla, my happy Firefox friends made a mobile browser...too bad it's not java. Check it out:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
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francoislr
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Kryptik, we seem to be in Kahoots today...posting at just about the same time..weird!
But yeah, that is interesting....the mxit article does not want to open...but oh well. Wonder what Naspers will do with them.
Seems my post pushed in...freaky;-)
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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So Mxit has sold some of its shares to Naspers.... Would be interesting to see whether there'll be any new developments...
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=297094&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
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