2008

With the release of Firefox 3 earlier this week, there was some anticipation around the QuirkStation that the SearchStatus download page (and thus www.quirk.biz) would see some increased traffic as users updated their extensions to be compatible with the new browser version. Firefox changes quite a bit with each new major release and so must […]

South Africa is really quite a virile rugby playing nation. We have spread our rugby spawn everywhere, well, certainly in those places that count in rugby. More importantly, it shows how superior South Africa’s strategy of “naaiamama” is to that of the New Zealand’s “whakapapa”. At Newlands, we have Peter de Villiers’ Springbok team playing […]

Online retailers are particularly sensitive to the effectiveness of their online checkout process. The measurement metric of shopping cart abandonment is a no brainer — if people abandon a virtual trolley piled high with goodies prior to check out, the till does not ring and marketing expenses incurred in attracting customers in the first place […]

Last night on Will Carling’s site Rucku.com, I politely asked a bunch of New Zealand rugby supporters to kindly lend me a hand with my son’s school project. In return I was told in no uncertain terms what I could do with my son and his project. I mean what is the point of people […]

Our national football team, Bafana Bafana, have always taken great pride in humiliating their long suffering fans, with this past Saturday’s performance proving to be no exception. In losing to Sierra Leone, a country comprising of 253 people, 14 dogs and a large tree stump, Bafana merely upheld a tradition of limp performances when playing […]