I've been looking into Skype as an alternative to using a traditional telephone. Call quality has been improving and from opinions I've read about call quality, it's somewhere between a cellphone and a landline. The Skype subscriptions page states that for US$5.99, you can get unlimited calls to landlines within your own country, which also includes cellphones in some … [Read more...] about Investigating Skype
Snow
How many times have you seen snow? The other day while deleting stuff from my desktop I came across a video that Nicola had taken of the snow when the family went to Underberg last year in 2007. Well that got me thinking that I hadn't seen it that much until I talked to my mom the other day over Skype. So here I am jogging my memory. The earliest time I can recall seeing snow … [Read more...] about Snow
Fourth Wedding Anniversary
As of January 24th, 2008 we have been married for four years. The time really does fly. I remember meeting Ava back in 2002 and the year and half before we got married. Our weddings in ZA, Tainan and Taipei, what a busy year that was. And now four years down the road, it's the three of us rather than the two of us only. Ava's oldest sister and Rice looked after Christina on … [Read more...] about Fourth Wedding Anniversary
B&B in Westville
A colleague of mine is going to Durban to meet with a customer who is on Essex Terrace at: Suite 103, 1st Floor Kent House, 1 Neptune Rd, Essex Terrace Westville, KZN South Africa Their website is at http://www.i-kiosksolutions.co.za Can anyone suggest any good B&B's in the area, there will be three or so people for two nights. I can't remember exactly where Essex Terrace … [Read more...] about B&B in Westville
How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool
Update (11 May 2010): Josh (in the comments below) alerted me to a shortcut to switch between traditional and simplified input, just use ctrl+shift+t to switch. Thanks Josh I got a request from Rebecca, who found a comment that I had made about installing the Google Pinyin tool. She emailed me and asked me to show her how to change the google input method tool to Traditional … [Read more...] about How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool