After a bit of searching I have found Ken Robertson's plugin to change Community Server from a multiple blog installation, to a single blog installation. It took all of 2 minutes to do the installation and configuration, and my blog is now happily running on the root of my site, without any complaints, and without the need for readers to click on one extra link to get to it.
You can get it here
http://qgyen.net/archive/2006/07/14/Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping-for-CS-v2.1.aspx
I think the SANDF is taking things a bit far here. Government tells them that they have to have a 25/75 percent white/black pilot split, and instead of adding a few black pilots, they go and remove three whites. And that is not the worst of the move, the spokesperson then goes on to say that they don't want all their best pilots to be fighter pilots, they need some to fly helicopters and transport aircraft.
Wake up!
We want our best pilots to fly the fighter jets, I don't want some incompetent pilot, who battles to fly a transport plane in normal conditions, to have to fly in combat conditions, he won't last seconds against any other force's pilots, because they only use their best.
So now we have the second best pilots, and the second best administrators in place, why not just can the defence force, they won't be able to protect us if they only have second rate staff!
The ANCYL made two very controversial statements this weekend.
1. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=qw1162186561802B252
They want the Union Buildings renamed, because it "is a symbol of oppression".
Are you retarded or confused? Here is a quick history lesson. The Union buildings were built around 1910, as a symbol of the re-integration of the old Transvaal republic into the rest of South Africa (forming a union). This was after the Boer war against the English, and had absolutely nothing to do with apartheid or oppression!
Stop the mindless renaming of symbols of our history.
2. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20061030103932651C839948
"We love Mugabe"
You have answered my question from above, you are retarded. If you cannot see that Mugabe is pulling his country into the depths of poverty, and that the country is waiting for another revolution to happen, then you are blind or stupid, or probably both. Maybe you should start thinking about the impact of your comments before making them! You have just shot the little credibility you had left (maybe there was nothing) in both feet.
Maybe you should go back to what you are supposed to do, uplift the youth of the country and stop trying to play political games.
This morning on the news they had interviewed a few taxi drivers that claim their bad driving is due to taxi owners putting pressure on the driver to make more money. Now in my opinion, if that is the case then start nailing the owners.
The law should be changed that if you are caught endangering the lives of your passengers in any vehicle where a PDP license is required, then the vehicle is confiscated. In other words, if you’re skipping robots, and speeding unnecessary, and hurtling down the bus-lane/emergency lane, or driving into oncoming traffic, then you lose your taxi. Easy as that.
After the situation on Friday, where a taxi driver, driving in the emergency lane, wouldn’t give someone in the turning lane space to make his turn, and the whole thing ending in a fist fight, it looks like the public is getting progressively fed-up with the way taxi drivers are driving, and getting away with it.
I want to see some action by the cops, not the lazy sucker hiding behind his speeding radar, and then not focusing on any taxis because they just don’t pay fines, but rather catching the people that look like they can afford the fine.
I want to see action where the cops actually pull people over for skipping red lights. It has gotten so bad on early morning cycles, that I’m slowing down for green traffic lights, because chances are pretty good that someone will be skipping the red light.
Or pulling vehicles over that are clearly overloaded or unroadworthy. Or for various other transgressions.
But they are clearly too lazy to do that. I’ve been pulled over twice recently where once my license had expired (I don’t always have the time to go stand in line for a license, and the one time when I was there they wouldn’t give it to me, because another car that’s on my name, that hasn’t seen the road in two years, had an expired license). I was honestly trying to do the right thing, but they would not listen to that reasoning. The second time I was pulled over for a broken front number plate.
And both times they were hinting for bribes, but when it dawned on them, that I meant it when I told them, in the nicest possible way, to go to hell and give me the fine, they let me go. Both times. Too lazy to write out a single page form!
I miss the old days, when cops were still proud to be cops, and actually did it properly.
Since I saw the first pictures of this car in a magazine, my thoughts were that this must be my next car. It is a seriously good looking car with the high stance, big wheelarches, and 18" wheels.
And then when seeing it in the flesh for the first time, my thoughts were confirmed, and I decided to go drive it as soon as I had some spare time. That happened on Friday afternoon.
As I got in the car, my first thoughts were that it feels a bit cramped after he space that I expected from its size. The centre console is quite wide, and the driver leg space is actually less than in my Conquest.
The trim on the inside was better than what I expected after reading all the bad write-ups in the local magazines, but I'm used to a Toyota Conquest, the reporters are used to driving the latest and greatest. Same can be said for the power and acceleration, it wasn't impressive, but certainly better than the expectation set by the reporters.
As I started the car, AC/DC Thunderstruck started playing on the radio, big coincidence, but still one of my favourite bands, so I got to test the impressive sound system. It is seriously impressive for an out of the box system, with very clear sound across all the ranges and volume settings
As for the actual drive, as I said previously I was fairly happy with the power and acceleration, but what put me off enough not to buy this car, was the fact that you can't see anything from the driver seat. You can't see the bonnet at all. Yes, I could move the seat higher, but then my head would be touching the roof, so that was a no-go.
The A-pillar is situated closer than any other car that I've driven before, in such a way that it changes almost every curve in the road to a blind-curve, you cannot see oncoming traffic at all! Now in my opinion that is dangerous, and my first thought was that, as in the software world, where most engineers never get to test-drive their own products to see the shortcomings, this design engineer never drove the car, because I think he would have changed this had he driven it.
The last thing that seriously ticked me off, was the salesman. From the time he introduced himself he seemed off, and it got worse. It took him a full 10 minutes to find the keys for the car, now if there was hundreds of cars standing on the floor I would understand, but out of the 7 cars in the showroom there were only two Dodges, how difficult can it be. Then, without the usual sales pitch about all the features, he handed me the keys with a frank "Drive it around the block" and walked off. The block isn't very big, and there are speedbumps, so I decided to take it further. Then upon getting back, he couldn't wait to get me out of the showroom, choosing not to even gime an estimate of how much they would give me for my car on a trade-in, only repeating "…it is big, it is american, and you should buy it."
Piss-off buddy, I'll find another car, and even if this one was good enough to buy, I would have gone to another dealer to get some service.
So, that means I keep on looking for a car, and until I find something spectacular, my paid for Conquest will have to do the job.
It seems that crime in this country has stepped up to a new level of violence. The gangs doing cash-in-transit heists don't hesitate to shoot in public places anymore, and when they get the chance they try to kill the security personnel in the vehicle as well. I suppose that is to ensure that they don't get identified later on.
I think it is time that we challenge government, on a local and national level to stop riding the gravy train, and start doing something about this.
It seems that all they are doing is changing names of places, because of arbitrary events that happened there. Get real, I don't mind my tax money being spent, but not like that. Rather use the money that you have allocated for name changes to enable the police to more effectively fight crime, and to alleviate the needs of the homeless.
Once all of that has been done, and the crime rate has significantly dropped, then by all means commemorate the death of your great-grandfather's horse by changing the name of a town you've never been to.
If the lady that did the voice-over for Telkom's helpdesk call-waiting knew how irritated people are going to be with her voice, would she have accepted the job?
Yes, I'm still battling to get my ADSL line active!