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Monday, July 20, 2009
The future of the net
So, Seacom is being launched next week and is hailed to bring down prices to the local telecoms community. With 1.4TBps of international bandwidth, are we going to see a huge reduction in ADSL prices, are we going to have free for all packages where one can download as much as they want or is our backhaul technology not capable of these throughputs. Is Seacom going to build their own network structure or make use of the existing Telecoms network. If they make use of existing infrastructure how are they going to bring down prices seeing it will be using Telkom for backhaul and with high interconnect fees, is a price reduction feasible?
I personally still feel that the days of cheap bandwidth is far off, with Telkom and its SAT3 sea cable, it still holds most of the aces. I predict we might see small reductions in prices or maybe higher caps been given to clients but nothing drastic.
I think 2011 will be the year an increase in data speeds and bandwidth will come to the forefront that is if the Eassy cable is launched on the due date of June 2010, which I doubt, seeing that it is a government initiative, but with the huge improvements in 4G technology speeds of 100mbps is already a reality.
Anyway, that is a bit of technology conundrum we are sitting with today, are we going to wait for the promise of LTE or are we going to use our existing technologies to keep with the pace of the rest of the world.
Next ttopic will be whether W-CDMA is a superior 3G technology or whether it is just a flash in the pan with handsets not being manufactured for this technology, that is me, over and out.
I personally still feel that the days of cheap bandwidth is far off, with Telkom and its SAT3 sea cable, it still holds most of the aces. I predict we might see small reductions in prices or maybe higher caps been given to clients but nothing drastic.
I think 2011 will be the year an increase in data speeds and bandwidth will come to the forefront that is if the Eassy cable is launched on the due date of June 2010, which I doubt, seeing that it is a government initiative, but with the huge improvements in 4G technology speeds of 100mbps is already a reality.
Anyway, that is a bit of technology conundrum we are sitting with today, are we going to wait for the promise of LTE or are we going to use our existing technologies to keep with the pace of the rest of the world.
Next ttopic will be whether W-CDMA is a superior 3G technology or whether it is just a flash in the pan with handsets not being manufactured for this technology, that is me, over and out.
Entertainment & the rest
Ok, I am not big on going to the movies but in the past week or so I went to the movies twice, that has to be some kind of record because if I got to the cinema once a year it is a lot.
In my late teens and early twenties I use to go a lot, basically every week and watched every new movie at Kenilworth centre seeing it was in walking distance from where I lived. But since I've moved to Jhb I think I've been to the movies 5 times in the past 8 years.
Anyway, firstly I took my daughter to watch Ice Age 3D, the movie was average, but seeing that it was my first 3D experience, I was totally amazed by the effects. So if anything, you need to watch it just because of the 3D effects, simply awesome.
Then I wanted to go and watch the new potter movie but it was sold out and settled on Transformers 2, I don't think it is as good as the first one seeing that one already knows that these machines transform from cars, trucks and bikes to super fighter machines, however the comedic element in this movie was quite refreshing. So I give this movie also a thumbs up to see on the big screen.
The only turn-off about going to the movies is the price of the popcorn combos, damn R47 for Popcorn, coke and some chocolate coated nuts.
Yesterday I had one of my favourite dishes for lunch namely butter chicken. Props to the sister-in-law for making it, just stole Aasia's word (props).
My female guppies in the fish tank are all pregnant, think the rest of the fish is gonna have some protein when they decide to give birth seeing that it is a live birth as guppies do not lay eggs.
I am contemplating taking them out and putting them in a smaller tank so that the some of the lil ones survive, but then the merciless side of me says argh fuck it, cause these guppies fall pregnant so easily, I can always start breeding them another time.
I think my tank needs some more plants so that the other fish can also breed cause at this point there is no place to lay their eggs, if they do lay the eggs, the rainbow sharks will chow i up in a sec. at least with plants in the tank there is some sort of cover for the eggs.
Finally the electricity has been sorted out at home and we will be moving back to the house at the end of the week Insh'alla, first thing on my agenda is to switch on DSTV, only kak is I am gonna have to install the dish myself, hopefully I don't break anything, I also want to get Xtra view, meaning I have to buy a dual LNB cause once DSTV is activated there are gonna be fights in the household. I made that promise to myself, on Friday I am reactivating my DSTV come hell or high water, fuck this SABC and eTV crap with useless sports action, whole fucking weekend there is some sort of WWE on Etv, sports on the SABC front is a joke and me be an avid sorts couch potato need my weekly fill of good sporting events. Currently the Ashes is being played in England(hope those Aussies get a beating) Tough Luck Western Province in the currie cup this past week, we'll beat the Cheetah's on Friday. Damn, the F1 is also exciting with Braun GP and Redbull the front runners , no more the boring Ferrari and Mclaren racing for top spots. Then the Premier league starts next month and I am sure people are watching the transfer window carefully with Man City going on a buying spree and even eyeing Juleon Lescott from Everton and me being an Everton supporter, I hope Moyes does not sell him, he is one of the best defenders in England.
Work has been boring since I've completed the NGN(next Generation Network) course I was on for the past year. I am not happy with the mark my group got but at least we past, damn we put our heart and souls into that final assignment, but only to be told, very good work but you fell shoult on your conclusion and recommendations. We got a lousy 65% for a 113 page Business Impact Paper and 55 page presentation. I also passed all my individual assignment for the past year on the course - so Kudos (another Aasia word) to me for seeing it through, while some of my colleagues bailed after failing the first examination.
As can be seen from my writing, I am bored as I sit here at work browsing the internet and reading some interesting and some not so interesting stuff just to pass the day, c'mon 3:30pm.
In my late teens and early twenties I use to go a lot, basically every week and watched every new movie at Kenilworth centre seeing it was in walking distance from where I lived. But since I've moved to Jhb I think I've been to the movies 5 times in the past 8 years.
Anyway, firstly I took my daughter to watch Ice Age 3D, the movie was average, but seeing that it was my first 3D experience, I was totally amazed by the effects. So if anything, you need to watch it just because of the 3D effects, simply awesome.
Then I wanted to go and watch the new potter movie but it was sold out and settled on Transformers 2, I don't think it is as good as the first one seeing that one already knows that these machines transform from cars, trucks and bikes to super fighter machines, however the comedic element in this movie was quite refreshing. So I give this movie also a thumbs up to see on the big screen.
The only turn-off about going to the movies is the price of the popcorn combos, damn R47 for Popcorn, coke and some chocolate coated nuts.
Yesterday I had one of my favourite dishes for lunch namely butter chicken. Props to the sister-in-law for making it, just stole Aasia's word (props).
My female guppies in the fish tank are all pregnant, think the rest of the fish is gonna have some protein when they decide to give birth seeing that it is a live birth as guppies do not lay eggs.
I am contemplating taking them out and putting them in a smaller tank so that the some of the lil ones survive, but then the merciless side of me says argh fuck it, cause these guppies fall pregnant so easily, I can always start breeding them another time.
I think my tank needs some more plants so that the other fish can also breed cause at this point there is no place to lay their eggs, if they do lay the eggs, the rainbow sharks will chow i up in a sec. at least with plants in the tank there is some sort of cover for the eggs.
Finally the electricity has been sorted out at home and we will be moving back to the house at the end of the week Insh'alla, first thing on my agenda is to switch on DSTV, only kak is I am gonna have to install the dish myself, hopefully I don't break anything, I also want to get Xtra view, meaning I have to buy a dual LNB cause once DSTV is activated there are gonna be fights in the household. I made that promise to myself, on Friday I am reactivating my DSTV come hell or high water, fuck this SABC and eTV crap with useless sports action, whole fucking weekend there is some sort of WWE on Etv, sports on the SABC front is a joke and me be an avid sorts couch potato need my weekly fill of good sporting events. Currently the Ashes is being played in England(hope those Aussies get a beating) Tough Luck Western Province in the currie cup this past week, we'll beat the Cheetah's on Friday. Damn, the F1 is also exciting with Braun GP and Redbull the front runners , no more the boring Ferrari and Mclaren racing for top spots. Then the Premier league starts next month and I am sure people are watching the transfer window carefully with Man City going on a buying spree and even eyeing Juleon Lescott from Everton and me being an Everton supporter, I hope Moyes does not sell him, he is one of the best defenders in England.
Work has been boring since I've completed the NGN(next Generation Network) course I was on for the past year. I am not happy with the mark my group got but at least we past, damn we put our heart and souls into that final assignment, but only to be told, very good work but you fell shoult on your conclusion and recommendations. We got a lousy 65% for a 113 page Business Impact Paper and 55 page presentation. I also passed all my individual assignment for the past year on the course - so Kudos (another Aasia word) to me for seeing it through, while some of my colleagues bailed after failing the first examination.
As can be seen from my writing, I am bored as I sit here at work browsing the internet and reading some interesting and some not so interesting stuff just to pass the day, c'mon 3:30pm.
Forgiveness
So, last night was Big Night also known as Lailatul Mi'raj in Cape Town.
Now, this is the time people phone family and friends and ask forgiveness for anything you have said or done in the year that has passed.
For me this is all so fake, because every year you go through this same ritual in asking forgiveness to the same people and the next day the shit starts again, back to the Fitna, back stabbing, back biting for the rest of the year till Mi'raj is on our doorsteps again and then we perform the ritual of hugging our so called loved ones and asking forgiveness again, what a vicious circle.
So there I was feeling a little awkward last night just saying "maaf"(asking for forgiveness) in passing without really knowing why I am saying it.
I then phoned my mother in CT and asked "maaf" and she asked why?, I said for anything I might have said or done to hurt her in the past year and she just said you did not do anything so there is no need to ask for forgiveness.
Why when this time of year comes around, people start looking for their cd's with surah Yaseen on it or some or other thikr?
While listening to some thikr yesterday, and I must say I enjoyed it, but not because it is the time when this is what we need to listen to it, I just enjoyed it and it filled my heart with gladness because I knew some of the verses and not because it was Big night but just because I knew some verses.
I might come about as insensitive and not give a damn, which I mostly do not, but there are sometimes where I feel there is a GOD and yesterday while listening to a cd and reading Yaseen that I really felt close to GOD.
Just went of track to my original train of thought, why do people ask for forgiveness knowing that it is just some sort of fad that happens every year? Same with the month of Fasting, we become Ramadaan Muslims seeing that it is the holiest month on the Islamic calendar, we wear our toppies(fez; head gear) or Hijaab to work and once the Athaan for Eidul Adhaa goes we have the fanciest clothes on.
Another thing, people fast during the day, between sunrise and sunset, that is the time of ibaadah, after sunset we are permitted to eat and go about or normal things. I just think it is screwed up that people watch TV during the day while fasting and then put the tv's off after sunset, don't see the logic in that, maybe somebody can explain that to me.
But before I go, I just ask for your Dua's(prayers) that one day I do wonder on the right path and the path to righteousness, but for the time being I am just gonna be me and ask the questions that do not make sense to me.
I apologise to the literaries out there for incorrect use of grammar in my posts, language was not one of my strong points in school :)
Now, this is the time people phone family and friends and ask forgiveness for anything you have said or done in the year that has passed.
For me this is all so fake, because every year you go through this same ritual in asking forgiveness to the same people and the next day the shit starts again, back to the Fitna, back stabbing, back biting for the rest of the year till Mi'raj is on our doorsteps again and then we perform the ritual of hugging our so called loved ones and asking forgiveness again, what a vicious circle.
So there I was feeling a little awkward last night just saying "maaf"(asking for forgiveness) in passing without really knowing why I am saying it.
I then phoned my mother in CT and asked "maaf" and she asked why?, I said for anything I might have said or done to hurt her in the past year and she just said you did not do anything so there is no need to ask for forgiveness.
Why when this time of year comes around, people start looking for their cd's with surah Yaseen on it or some or other thikr?
While listening to some thikr yesterday, and I must say I enjoyed it, but not because it is the time when this is what we need to listen to it, I just enjoyed it and it filled my heart with gladness because I knew some of the verses and not because it was Big night but just because I knew some verses.
I might come about as insensitive and not give a damn, which I mostly do not, but there are sometimes where I feel there is a GOD and yesterday while listening to a cd and reading Yaseen that I really felt close to GOD.
Just went of track to my original train of thought, why do people ask for forgiveness knowing that it is just some sort of fad that happens every year? Same with the month of Fasting, we become Ramadaan Muslims seeing that it is the holiest month on the Islamic calendar, we wear our toppies(fez; head gear) or Hijaab to work and once the Athaan for Eidul Adhaa goes we have the fanciest clothes on.
Another thing, people fast during the day, between sunrise and sunset, that is the time of ibaadah, after sunset we are permitted to eat and go about or normal things. I just think it is screwed up that people watch TV during the day while fasting and then put the tv's off after sunset, don't see the logic in that, maybe somebody can explain that to me.
But before I go, I just ask for your Dua's(prayers) that one day I do wonder on the right path and the path to righteousness, but for the time being I am just gonna be me and ask the questions that do not make sense to me.
I apologise to the literaries out there for incorrect use of grammar in my posts, language was not one of my strong points in school :)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Plagiarism
What are your feelings about plagiarism?
When quoting text or anything for that matter, is it ok to use the words of authors indiscriminately without paying tribute to them with a reference
The son shone beautifully and in its crimson shadow a pale, noticeably aesthetic creature appeared [Reference 1 Toyer's Blog]
My personal opinion is that it is pretty pointless, who the !@$#@ cares about reading references if it spoils the flow of the point you are trying to make.
I got nailed quite a bit for plagiarism this past year when handing in assignments and try not to knowingly do it, I usually would use something like as Rod Randall said, good fences make good neighbours in a book about the telecosm.
I get that writers wanna be acknowledged, but are they so vain that if someone uses a sentence from a book they are ready slap you with a subpoena.
I conversation are we to say as per specific author check reference below while talking to somebody?
The argument now goes if the specific person is no longer among the breathing, would they care if you use their literature without referencing? The other end argues that we always reference the Nabi (PBUH) and his followers when quoting the Quran or hadith and they are no longer among the living.
I am just ranting here because I got hit over the knuckles because of plagiarism, I still don't see the harm in it.
References:
[1} Toyer's Blog
http://stutteringtoybury.blogspot.com
When quoting text or anything for that matter, is it ok to use the words of authors indiscriminately without paying tribute to them with a reference
The son shone beautifully and in its crimson shadow a pale, noticeably aesthetic creature appeared [Reference 1 Toyer's Blog]
My personal opinion is that it is pretty pointless, who the !@$#@ cares about reading references if it spoils the flow of the point you are trying to make.
I got nailed quite a bit for plagiarism this past year when handing in assignments and try not to knowingly do it, I usually would use something like as Rod Randall said, good fences make good neighbours in a book about the telecosm.
I get that writers wanna be acknowledged, but are they so vain that if someone uses a sentence from a book they are ready slap you with a subpoena.
I conversation are we to say as per specific author check reference below while talking to somebody?
The argument now goes if the specific person is no longer among the breathing, would they care if you use their literature without referencing? The other end argues that we always reference the Nabi (PBUH) and his followers when quoting the Quran or hadith and they are no longer among the living.
I am just ranting here because I got hit over the knuckles because of plagiarism, I still don't see the harm in it.
References:
[1} Toyer's Blog
http://stutteringtoybury.blogspot.com
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
I R BLANK
So ........
My mother always use to say sew buttons on a banana peel and slip on it.
What to say.....
Work is boring
It is cold
My windscreen was filled with ice this morning
I went to sleep at 8pm last night, have not done that in years
damn I am thinking
I need a spark
a catalyst
a firework
something to get me going
did I mention work is boring
I need a challenge
I need mental stimulation
I need someone to sit me down and have a conversation about anything really but that is stimulating
it could be to do with next generation networks and what happens in a world of bandwidth abundance
it could be on theology - the age old debate about atheism vs theism or darwinism
it could be sexual - the illusive female orgasm
it could be bloody general knowledge - Queen Elizabeth was born on the 21st of April
it could be about politics - is JZ the next the chairman Mao
it could be about entertainment - I think knowing was a kak movie
C'mon, somebody stimulate meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......................
My mother always use to say sew buttons on a banana peel and slip on it.
What to say.....
Work is boring
It is cold
My windscreen was filled with ice this morning
I went to sleep at 8pm last night, have not done that in years
damn I am thinking
I need a spark
a catalyst
a firework
something to get me going
did I mention work is boring
I need a challenge
I need mental stimulation
I need someone to sit me down and have a conversation about anything really but that is stimulating
it could be to do with next generation networks and what happens in a world of bandwidth abundance
it could be on theology - the age old debate about atheism vs theism or darwinism
it could be sexual - the illusive female orgasm
it could be bloody general knowledge - Queen Elizabeth was born on the 21st of April
it could be about politics - is JZ the next the chairman Mao
it could be about entertainment - I think knowing was a kak movie
C'mon, somebody stimulate meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......................
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Issues of Faith
Now I am not a preacher, but looking from the outside I think people tend to use religion to benifit themselves, You will have certain people wearing Hijaab and quoting from the Quran that it is Fard(compulsory) to dress in this fashion, then you have another group that wears full hijaab with parda with quotations from the holy book and Hadith substantiating the necessity to dress in that particular manner. Another group will interpret the holy Quran in a whole other and find surahs (chapters) or Ayaats(verses) saying that women must dress modestly but that does not mean covering the body from head to toe.
The holy Quran has never changed in over 1400 years but the way we practice what is said in it has changed because of interpretations and an evolving society.
Personally, I am not big on religion, I don't perform my Salaah although I say my shahadat everynight, I think of my Maker almost the most of my day, talking to myself, am I doing the right thing, am I using the fact that I am not performing one of the pillars as a cop out because I usually say I don't go to mosque because I feel I am only going to show people that I am going and not because I am fulfilling a duty to the Almighty.
I mean we will go out and there is no Muslim restaurants in the area and go to a Panarottis and order a Margherita pizza, cool it has no pork but was any consideration taken into the utensils used to cut the pizza into slices, do we turn a blind eye to that?
yes people interpret Religion differently and have a right to cause the one thing they were blessed with is a brain, and how you use it is up to you, to add to Aasia's Post.
To each his own and may all your Duas(prayers) be answered no matter which side of the fence you sit on, those that take religion to an extreme or those who have a more liberal view of it for Allah(SWT) is Most merciful and oft Forgiving.
I hate topics relating to religion because of this, everyone knows better than the rest, well not everone, don't wanna generalise but I am sure you catch my drift.
I just felt I had to do at least one topic on it, it was a need which has now been fulfilled.
Catch ya on the flipside
The holy Quran has never changed in over 1400 years but the way we practice what is said in it has changed because of interpretations and an evolving society.
Personally, I am not big on religion, I don't perform my Salaah although I say my shahadat everynight, I think of my Maker almost the most of my day, talking to myself, am I doing the right thing, am I using the fact that I am not performing one of the pillars as a cop out because I usually say I don't go to mosque because I feel I am only going to show people that I am going and not because I am fulfilling a duty to the Almighty.
I mean we will go out and there is no Muslim restaurants in the area and go to a Panarottis and order a Margherita pizza, cool it has no pork but was any consideration taken into the utensils used to cut the pizza into slices, do we turn a blind eye to that?
yes people interpret Religion differently and have a right to cause the one thing they were blessed with is a brain, and how you use it is up to you, to add to Aasia's Post.
To each his own and may all your Duas(prayers) be answered no matter which side of the fence you sit on, those that take religion to an extreme or those who have a more liberal view of it for Allah(SWT) is Most merciful and oft Forgiving.
I hate topics relating to religion because of this, everyone knows better than the rest, well not everone, don't wanna generalise but I am sure you catch my drift.
I just felt I had to do at least one topic on it, it was a need which has now been fulfilled.
Catch ya on the flipside
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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