[Za-pm] ZA.PM Updates

Nico Coetzee nico at itfirms.co.za
Fri May 16 16:09:29 CDT 2003


On Friday 16 May 2003 10:26, Oskar Pearson wrote:
> Hi Nico
>
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>
> International Perl meetup day is at http://perl.meetup.com/ - There are
> loads of other things there, though. It's on the third Thursday of every
> month. The site lets you organise where the event is - it's then
> coordinated with every other town in every country. Quite cool :)
>
> I've added myself as a host. If it doesn't work out to be the way we do
> things, it doesn't work out - no biggie :)

Interesting concept. I'll keep this in ind for the future. I think at this 
stage, we should concentrate on getting this list going, then arrange a 
'general' meeting/fun day - where I hope to also see/meet the mountain people 
( a.k.a. Capetonians ).


>
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>
> Some of my personal interests are:
> o photography (and B&W developing),
> o writing (squid-docs.sourceforge.net is one of my older, incomplete,
>   projects),
> o internet caching (an older interest),
> o occasional free software code hacks,
> o cryptography
> o network security
> o programming patterns (new interest),
> o "the design of everyday things" - useability and the human
>   conciousness,
> o the software development process,
> o social aspects of both personality and self,
> o Yoga,
> o Weights,
> o NLP and other technologies of mind,
> o social activisim is another of my new interests (EFF-type,
>   e-government, etc),
> o I throw in some maintenance of ftp.is.co.za when I get a chance,
> o Science fiction (short stories - Robert Silverberg rocks),
> o Reading mail (but seldom replying to it).
> o Philosophising in general
> o Currently learning java
> o Peer to peer networks, and the change in culture that it's
>   bringing about. I've been involved in p-grid.org to a very
>   small extent, which is a yet-to-be-released peer2peer system
>   developed by academics in an attempt to be incredibly efficient.
>

I love squid. It works really well, except the Open Source redirectors 
available ( SquidGuard and DansGardian ) really suck - from an administration 
and practical point of view. We are evaluating several commercial 
alternatives at this stage - but the prices are beyond madness. Forget 
implimenting Internet Content Filtering in SA for under a R1 million.

> Perl is one of my favorite languages.

:)

>
> When I'm not doing these things, I'll generally be at Seattle coffee
> shop or at Exclusive books, meeting friends.
>

Would that be at Cresta? That's the only Exclusive books I know of in that 
area. Maybe I haven't mentioned this, but I'm only about 1.5 years now in 
Gauteng. Used to live in Bloem - and I really mis Bloem :(

> Oskar
> --
> Oskar Pearson <oskar at qualica.com>
> Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
> web: http://www.qualica.com/

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