- No post in a while, but I was bored and I snarfed some WhatsApp traffic. Guess what I found http://t.co/l0jUH4c #blogpost #whatsapp #
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And here we have yet another reason to stay the heck off the open WiFi at airports and other hotspots.
Being curious I decided to see what gets broadcast over the air when I send WhatsApp messages to my friends. I connected my phone to my WiFi and messaged a friend. What I found was very interesting…
Hey Everyone.
I am going to try and cram as much info into this post as I am live blogging from the Google Engage event in Bryanston today.
You can also follow my Twitter Updates HERE and the Google Plus stream HERE.
Right, it seems that they are ready to go, let’s dive in. (Excuse any typo’s, I am live blogging as the presentations happen.)
- New Blog Post: Seven Killer Apps that Every Ubuntu User Should Have http://goo.gl/IC6wq #
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(I just re read this and my writing is horrible in this article. I will edit it later – it was bedtime when I finished it, but real work calls now and editing will have to wait.)
A (long) while ago I opined that Ubuntu needs some serious Android integration into the OS in order to forge a market niche for itself as a complete computing package.
Well, after some digging and troubleshooting I discovered that a lot of what I mentioned in that post is already available and possible if you are an Ubuntu (and in most cases Any Linux) user.
Below I have listed seven Apps that will make your computing experience so much better if you have an Android Phone. They are divided into Five Categories. And they are all FREE.
So without further delay, 7 Killer Android Apps Every Ubuntu User Should Have:
- @TechTolk_IT_Svc thanks for tweeting my old article on social networking apps for the desktop! Migt be time for a revisit :-) in reply to TechTolk_IT_Svc #
- @brandontopham responded here http://goo.gl/TStcr to the letter to the Democratic Alliance that can be found here http://goo.gl/s2aLD #DAQA #
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Hey There.
This is a quickie update. It is Election Day for the Local Government Elections 2011 and results are just beginning to come in.
Real-time results are hard to come by, there is a twitter hashtag to follow namely #LGEResults, but that makes it hard to get an overview of what is going on, which party is in the overall lead.
Lucky for us the IEC has a results page at http://elections.org.za where you can search for the results you want to see and then download either a PDF or Excel spreadsheet to view the results. If you are not interested in the technical aspect of how I parsed the information from the IEC spreadsheet you can view the results HERE: http://g33q.co.za/parties
(Bear in mind that I am not affiliated with the IEC, and with none of the parties – I am just a computer guy who voted and want to see the election results)
The spreadsheet I use for input seems to be updated every 10 or 20 minutes at this stage.
If you want to find out how I actually did the scripting, read on:
It is a bit of a pain, so I wrote a bash script to automatically download the spreadsheet (the URL does not change between updates :-)) and then parse the information. You will need to install the package xls2csv that is relevant to your Linux distribution.
BEHOLD:
#!/bin/bash -x
rm National*
wget http://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/197/Detailed%20Results/National.xls
xls2csv National.xls > parties
awk -F"\"" '{ print $2 $7 $6}' parties | grep -f input > results
Predictably the output is ugly, but it at least gives me some information that I want.
Have fun playing with this one. I use: while sleep 5m; do ./scriptname; done to run it every five minutes, and in the script above I added a simple scp command to upload it to my server where you can view the results at http://g33q.co.za/parties if you want.
Cheers for now!
Two weeks ago I wrote an open letter to the DA after engaging with Brandon Topham and other DA leadership on Twitter.
You can read the letter HERE.
This morning I received Brandon’s response in my email, and I am posting it below. He has touched on some of the issues I raised that will/would fall in his local government sphere of responsibility should they win Tshwane. As he has indicated many of the points I raised fall under a National Government level, and not local.
Below is the letter, with some comments by me in (italicised brackets).
- Use Ubuntu? Have Unity?? Then you are in luck! Let me show you how to make a custom Angry Birds Launcher That Works! http://goo.gl/nGYEV #
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Look, this is a quick and nasty, but at the end of this one you will have a cool angry birds quicklauncher in your Unity sidebar and clicking it will launch Angry Birds Beta in a Chromium App window.
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