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Steve Mathew's Blog

OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

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July 21

“ It’s official - Facebook has 500 million users! Facebook

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May 19

Google today unveiled an open-source, royalty-free video format called WebM

Oh boy, the video format wars are going to heat up. H.264 is too costly to licence for the open source brigade but both Apple and Microsoft have backed it.

Please, please lets just settle this for once. This has been ongoing since Betamax vs VHS days. Enough now!

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May 17

YouTube Launches in South Africa

Says Google, “… we’re excited to launch http://www.youtube.co.za, a South African version of YouTube and our first domain on the continent. The goal here is to give South Africans a way to easily discover local content and content producers. From now on when users in South Africa visit the site, they will see, for example, the most popular and most viewed videos in South Africa along with local content that closely matches their interests.”

See also:

http://www.youtube.com/sabc

http://www.youtube.com/etv

I also heard a rumour that Google has YouTube servers caching local content here in South Africa too. This is great news! It means faster streaming, local bandwidth and an ever-increasing commitment by Google to host their services here in SA.

Their Google Maps Street View for South Africa is about to launch here too!

Official Google Africa Blog: YouTube Launches in South Africa

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May 16

‘Starving yogi’ astounds Indian scientists

An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period…

Read the full story» ‘Starving yogi’ astounds Indian scientists

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April 8

“ The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said. Place names, people’s names and company names or brands will now count. BBC News - Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change

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57% of Republicans think Obama is a Muslim

Take a look at these stats from a Harris Poll. Not only do the Reupublicans thinks he is doing things Hitler did, he may also be the Anti-Christ. Oy vey!

via i.livescience.com

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April 5

Breaking News: Apple holding iPhone OS 4 event, April 8th!

Oh sweet. Looking forward to this update. Roll-on new features!

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March 27

“ You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms. Grigory Perelman, the maths genius who said no to $1m

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March 15

25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered

via BBC News - Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary

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March 14

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph

And some people trust America…

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March 4

“ KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has moved 11,200 of their crew members to Gmail as part of their Google Apps Premier Edition deployment Official Google Enterprise Blog: Flying into the cloud