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OpenDNS

by Jackie Plage on April 25, 2008

in Tech

My ISP, Karoo, is notorious around these ‘ere parts for being generally crappy. The latest in a long list of complaints being the redirection of unsuccessful DNS lookups to ask.com. Their DNS is usually pretty slow to catch up with changes too, a fact illustrated every time I change the nameservers on a [...]

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Catching Up

by Jackie Plage on April 3, 2008

in Thoughts

So, it’s been a while. With that in mind I thought I’d write a general ‘catch up’ post.
At the beginning of this year I took an extended break from my regular online activities (including Jaiku, a rarity for me!). I went over a month without checking RSS feeds, micro-blogging, checking Facebook etc. [...]

Sometimes, even my life is busy

by Jackie Plage on June 26, 2007

in Around the web, Thoughts

Yep, it’s true. Even no-life little ole me sometimes has busy periods. During those times I’m less inclined to blog, though I do have a nagging little blog voice at the back of my head telling me to go write something. So here I am.
What have I been busy with? A [...]

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Last.fm widgets and playlists

by Jackie Plage on May 11, 2007

in Around the web, music

My favourite music site has just introduced some nice new features.
Widgets
You can now use last.fm widgets on your blog / website. The widget choices we have are recently played / top artists etc., a quilt made up of the covers from your most listened to albums, a playlist player and a radio player. [...]

Zen’s Bits

by Jackie Plage on April 21, 2007

in Around the web, Site stuff

No, not those kind of bits you filthy minded swine! Aherm…
I’m referring to my new domain name zensbits.com where you will find my tumbleblog / tumblelog / whatever you want to call it, which is hosted by Tumblr.
Tumblr is a strange thing. Essentially it’s a blog without comments. I have wondered myself [...]

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