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		<title>Comparison of worldwide Apple prices &#8211; South Africa comes in 2nd highest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The world is flat!&#8221; Thomas Friedman proclaimed in 2005, meaning that the world has become a global village, where all players have a equal opportunity. I wish he was right, because that would mean that we in South Africa would have the same access to Apple computers as the rest of the First World.
Thanks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/01/13/comparison-of-worldwide-apple-prices-south-africa-comes-in-2nd-highest/</link>
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		<title>Javascript in Drupal 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kat Bailey has posted an excellent overview of the changes in javascript usage between Drupal 6 and 7. Particularly relevant is AHAH usage, which she sums up in Drupal 6 as follows: &#8220;AHAH forms make people want to jump out of the window of very tall buildings&#8221;!!! which is SOOOO true (I struggled for about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/11/05/javascript-in-drupal-7/</link>
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		<title>Snow Leopard, Drupal, Macports and php</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short story is this: Snow Leopard has php 5.3.0 in, and although Drupal 6.14 now runs on that version, all previous drupal versions run on 5.2. [Solution? Manual compile - instructions below]
Mark Liyange&#8217;s php package has all of the nice stuff (like GD and mysql support) built into it, but it just doesn&#8217;t run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/25/snow-leopard-drupal-macports-and-php/</link>
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		<title>South Africans: it&#8217;s legal to add people to your newsletters without their permission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out it&#8217;s legal to spam people if you&#8217;re South African.

The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 of South Africa states that
 1) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to consumers, must provide the consumer
 a) with the option to cancel his or her subscription to the mailing list of that person; and
 b) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/21/south-africans-its-legal-to-add-people-to-your-newsletters-without-their-permission/</link>
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		<title>Import the correct package for Actionscript 3 functions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: geeky rant follows. If you don&#8217;t care about Flash and Actionscript, don&#8217;t bother reading. Go and play in the sunlight, or whatever you people do for fun.

Dear Adobe
Your actionscript 2 migration documentation sucks. It&#8217;s written for people who already know what to do and so therefore wouldn&#8217;t make mistakes in the first place. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/19/import-the-correct-package-for-actionscript-3-functions/</link>
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		<title>Stop spamming me, South Africans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spam sucks. Americans have gotten a lot better at online marketing recently: only double-opt in lists are allowed (by law). Whereas South Africans suck email addresses out of the air and send unsolicited mail (spam) without asking the recipients to opt-in first. I can&#8217;t stop them, so the best I can do is publish their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/16/stop-spamming-me-south-africans/</link>
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		<title>ssh logins without passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to &#8220;How To Become A Hacker&#8221;, No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
My problem: logging into a particular server via ssh. Each time I do that, I&#8217;ve got to open Keychain Access, search for &#8220;ssh&#8221;, find the correct Password item which I added in there previously, open it, click &#8220;Show password&#8221;, type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/14/ssh-logins-without-passwords/</link>
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		<title>Weird characters after Wordpress upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just upgraded a few wordpress sites, and it all went well, except for the fact that it didn&#8217;t. This site was easy and quick &#8211; I&#8217;m impressed with how polished the wordpress experience is. I uploaded the new files, visited wp-admin, and wordpress did it&#8217;s thing. Sweet! Changed the theme, realised it didn&#8217;t support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/11/weird-characters-after-wordpress-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Debate on 702 Monday, 15 June 2009 at 11am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the comments on my Open letter to Core reads:
Interesting debate regarding CAB Platinum Store Versus  Core&#8217;s strong arm tactics on 702 Consumer Watch show on Monday the 15th of June 2009 at 11h00.
702 Studio Phone +27 011 883 0702
Main Switchboard +27 011 506 3702
Comment line (sms) 31702
Phone in and made a contribution!
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		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/06/13/debate-on-702-monday-15-june-2009-at-11am/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s are 51% more expensive in South Africa than in the States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s exchange rate is R7.94 to $1. Core charge R24,000 for the 15 inch 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro (http://www.zastore.co.za/macbookpro0810.php) and it&#8217;s available from the Apple site for $1,999 (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro).
Using the above exchange rate, $1,999 = R15,869.16. That&#8217;s a difference of R8130.84 which is 51% markup. 51%!!! Are you kidding me? This is unacceptable; I&#8217;ve sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/05/31/apples-are-51-more-expensive-in-south-africa-than-in-the-states/</link>
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