The first little snapshot of where I live here in Cape Town. Here’s my current CouchSurfer chilling by the pool in the garden.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Last Sunday I was at Kirstenbosch gardens for their weekly sunset concert. Last week McCully Workshop were playing. They’re a popular South African ’70s band and the concert was excellent.
Yesterday, Ismael Lo was playing. The concert set a new Kirstenbosch record selling out all 6′000 tickets in 6 hours. Ismael Lo is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonicist.
He really is a great performer. The whole band were excellent. They worked the audience well. By the third song people were already standing and dancing in the garden. By the end the whole audience was upright. It was a great afternoon.
They made an announcement at the beginning of the concert asking for no videos or photos. So the following are brought to you illicitly. 
Here’s a shot of the stage early in the concert:
Now here’s a shot of the crowd later in the concert:
Then a shot of the stage again nearing the end of the concert:
Finally, a short video of the closing seconds of the whole concert, after the 3rd encore, when the crowd were at their most excited:
I have been receiving large volumes of spam to random, numerical addresses at my domain. For example 48321819.1928382@, and so on. It’s not practical to block a single address. The spammers make up new addresses at random.
I wanted to block addresses using wildcards. For example, anything that starts with a 4 and ends with @domain.com. I use postfix, so I did some research. I didn’t find much, so I asked on the #postfix FreeNode channel. The very helpful sysmonk introduced me to regex tables in postfix.
So, I have now managed to block a whole bunch of addresses using a few simple regex patterns. The amount of spam I receive has dropped by almost 90% already. Yay!
I was at the 6th Cape Town Geek Dinner last night (wine kindly sponsored by Stormhoek). It was interesting to meet some local Capetonian geeks. Naturally, some were more geeky than others. Warm thanks to Jonathan for the generous lift there and back. Public transport in Cape Town is sorely lacking, so I wouldn’t have made it were it not for Jonathan’s generosity.
The event took place at Sloppy Sams restaurant. It was an interesting venue for the presentations / speeches. There’s a raised balcony area, which is where I sat. It meant if the speakers were any less than completely engaging, it was easy to tune out (which I did on ocassion).
Undoubtedly, the best presentation of the evening was Tania’s powerpoint karaoke. Powerpoint karaoke is where a speaker presents from slides they have never seen before. Tania’s presentation was on lesser known deities and was wonderfully amusing.
Overall, the evening was very enjoyable. We rounded it off with a quick visit to a bloggers party at Long Street Cafe. I met the blogger behind Wots for lunch. I’m considering starting a blog network, so it was interesting to meet some of South Africa’s bloggers.
Recent Comments