Thunderbird 2

It’s a train, it’s plane, no it’s Thunderbird!

…and it just got better with the release of version 2. A cleaner layout, added functionality including tags for yor mail make what was the best mail client, now even better.
Tired of Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, not interested in online mail like Gmail or Yahoo, you want something better and also free, well then Thunderbird’s for you.

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Boere Computer Dictionary from South Africa

  • Monitor – Keeping an eye on the braai
  • Download – Get the firewood off the bakkie
  • Hard drive – Trip back home without any cold beer
  • Keyboard – Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
  • Window – What you shut when it’s cold
  • Screen – What you shut in the mosquito season
  • Byte – What mosquitoes do
  • Bit – What mosquitoes did
  • Mega Byte – What mosquitoes at the lake do
  • Chip – A bar snack
  • Micro Chip – What’s left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
  • Modem – What you did to the lawns
  • Dot Matrix – Oom Jan Matrix’s wife
  • Laptop – Where the cat sleeps
  • Software – Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
  • Hardware – Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
  • Mouse – What eats the grain in the shed
  • Mouse Pad – Where the mouse takes the grain it does not eat
  • Mainframe – What holds the shed up
  • Web – What spiders make
  • Web Site – The shed (or under the verandah)
  • Cursor – The old bloke what swears a lot
  • Search Engine – What you do when the bakkie won’t go
  • Yahoo – What you say when the bakkie does go
  • Upgrade – A steep hill
  • Server – The person at the pub that brings the lunch
  • Mail Server – The post man
  • User – The neighbour what keeps borrowing things
  • Network When you have to repair your fishing net
  • Internet Complicated fish net repair method
  • Netscape When fish maneuvers out of reach of net
  • Online When you get the laundry hung out
  • Off Line – When the pegs don’t hold the washing up
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If pop groups had Afrikaans names

  • Pet Shop Boys – Troeteldierwinkel seuns
  • Smashing Pumpkins – Platgemoerde Pampoene
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Frikkie Gaan Fliek Toe
  • Johnny Rotten & the Sex Pistols – Jannie Vrot en die Pomp Revolwers
  • Spice Girls – Aromat Slette
  • Simple Minds – Dofkoppe
  • Mariah Carey – Meraai se Kerrie
  • Joan Armatrading – Johanna Wapenhandelaar
  • Four Jacks and a Jill – Vier Latte en ‘n Platte
  • Queen – Moffie
  • Ace of Base – Baas se As
  • Hughie Lewis and the News – Louis Luyt in die Nuus
  • Iron Maiden – Yster Sussie
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Mevrou Smit se Swart Mambas
  • Bananarama – Piesangmagarien
  • Meatloaf – Vleisrol / Vleisbroodjie
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Musings

Bits from my own writing (thoughts wandering through an empty head) that I wanted to explore further and then either delete or write further about. Enter at your own risk…

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abuse@spamcop.co.za

I recently received a Spam mail and at the bottom it said

Report abuse to abuse@spamcop.co.za

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