South Africa out of the Cricket World Cup

Well, its been a few days since I was even hoping to hear the word "cricket" and here I am posting about the South African's exit from the Cricket World cup. They played an "interesting" game which caused them to be soundly beaten by the Australians.

I'm not calling for heads to roll or coaches to be fired, I just want some form of consistency and I feel that the problem is with quota's. we took three players of color with us and only two of them played and the Petersen was in bad shape as he got NO game time.

Anyway, we are out and now its just Australia vs Sri Lanka. I'm rooting for the Sri Lankan's. I hope they kick ass - but I have to admit that the Australians are VERY strong at the moment.

Other sad news is that my brothers dog (the mother/bitch/damn of my dog) contracted some weird undiagnosed and untreatable blood disease and after one blood transfusion and some experimental medication was still going south at a rapid rate. So this afternoon she was put down. I am extremely sad and depressed about it - but I know its for the best as she was suffering and bleeding from her nose.

I know she's in a better place and that she was loved and will be missed.

I love you Jessie and will miss you (as if dog's can read this, its the thought that counts)

Cricket World Cup rant

The Proteas lost against New Zealand, where severely criticized, there was some blow up with a caller from the West Indies (who lives in Cape Town) complaining that the team was spotted drinking and getting out of hand right after their loss to New Zealand. The South African nation went mad - well the media went mad with signposts stating that the team was a disgrace and officials where scrambling to put the smackdown on the Protea's. What horse shit!!

When we won against England so convincingly, everything died down, the media dropped most of the articles around this and they focused on what a brilliant team we have.

My blood is green, fail or succeed they are my team and I am their supporter (like in the TV ad). I wish that this country would be a lot more supportive of our sporting representation and that they vocalise their support when we win and when we loose. Isn't that what commitment is - I could get a lot more deeper here and compare our support of the Protea's with the support in a relationship is like. Maybe this parallel is why there is such a high divorce rate, maybe we are getting more and more fickle as time goes by and we only concentrate or want to be associated with success. What message is this sending to our kids and the next generation of supporters.

Wake up South Africa and get behind your team!! OUR BLOOD IS GREEN!!

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Final update on Nokia E61

I love this phone, even after a few weeks - its amazing. The only gripe I have is that I cannot accept meeting requests sent via email on the phone. I can view the meeting request, but thats about it for now.

I was on three days of holiday and didn't have to use my Apple Macbook at all while on holiday, I was able to surf the internet, read my gmail and Unix based email, and catch the cricket scores all with the phone in relative ease and with decent speed.

Last post on this subject, its fantastic. the next stage for me is to install Python and try to get my brothers Twitter client to work on the phone :)

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... two days on

Still going strong, doing email, calendaring, now I'd just like a Twitter client loaded so that I can update from wherever I want to :)

I heard that the new Nokia E61i should be out in six or so months here in SA, will see about a further upgrade ...

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First day with E61 interfacing with Exchange 2003 server

Well, so far this phone rocks with its interface with Exchange 2003.

I had a meeting and left all of my notes and printouts at my desk and took just my phone with me. I had access to all of the minutes and thanks to its fantastic multitasking abilities, I was able to do minutes to the attendees (via email) while we where in the meeting. I had suffiecient practise with my Palm Treo 650 to be able to quickly type the minutes out.

This phone rocks!

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4 days with the E61

I am on the 4th day of the E61 so far and things are great. There are a few things that I absolutely need, a pouch, more external memory (I'm getting 2GB) and then the screen protectors. After just over a year with my Palm Treo 650 and its screen protector, I have finally seen the light.

As usual I have installed like a million apps onto the E61, just because I can and I am curious to see what it the apps look like on the screen. Well, I must admit that installing the applications when you have 3G access on the phone itself.

The benefits for me for the phone so far after 4 days are:

• No camera on the phone, makes this phone DAMN lighter.
• Larger screen on the phone.
• Full QWERTY keyboard.

The downside of this phone (for me) are as follows:

• The keyboard keys are a little difficult to use so far, no idea why.
• The phone is living in my pocket without a protector (so I cannot put keys or anything else in there with it).

The default applications are all good so far, the wireless is also good, but you cannot tell the phone at this time do this connection and at all other times do that.

The Mail for Exchange application is also damn good. Although, I want to test the RoadSync application as well to see how that compares ($99 for RoadSync).

More to follow.