AndroasAndroasThis is the everyday thoughts of a reasonably questionable global citizen, and also happens to be the weblog of Dimitrio. Articles
I Got Tagged!
2008-05-02 22:56:00 Recently I got tagged by Randi, this means that I have to supply you, my faithful readers with ten random facts about myself. I have to tag other people again so that they can do the same, but I can’t tag the person who tagged me. I think this is a cool idea, you get ... More About: Facts , Blogging , Random , Tagged
Ancestry Visa Abolishment Update
2008-05-01 22:06:00 I read a while back that they might abolish the UK Ancestry Visa , and probably replace it with a HSMP, which work on a point basis for highly skilled migrants. As I intend to get an Ancestry visa and eventually obtain my British Passport, this news was rather alarming! I quickly navigated to Google to search ... More About: Life , Blogging , Update
New Header Image
2008-04-30 05:13:00 I finally got around to making my theme a 3 column and getting the header image up - What do you think? PS: I had a great weekend! More About: Design , Weekend , Image , Header
Stupid Captcha
2008-04-27 16:35:00 Explain to me why we need captcha’s that are this advaced, it took me like 5 minutes to get past this - WTF? I mean, I think the good old captcha worked just fine - this is an epic FU More About: Personal , Design , Blogging , Stupid , Captcha
A New Direction
2008-04-25 22:31:00 After thinking about it long and hard, I have decided to take in a new direction in life. This will mainly be in work and studying. I have liked communicating and the art, and science of communication ever since I was very young - This might sounds weird, but I say this in retrospect. I have ... More About: Personal , Life , Blogging , Random , Direction
Happy Birthday To My Brother
2008-04-24 00:01:00 Today is my brother, Jas’s birthday - The 24th of April. He is turning 24. I normally post pictures of people close to me whose birthday it is, so here goes HAPPY B-DAY More About: Personal , Life , Blogging , Happy , Birthday
Twitter with Geo Location
2008-04-21 23:54:00 This might be one of the coolest ideas ever - Twitter with Geo location. Twittearth follows the twitter public time line, when someone tweets it jumps to the place on earth where that tweet came from - you can even tweet from the site. I am hoping that in the very near future they will make it ... More About: Blogging , Location
Theme is the theme
2008-04-21 20:38:00 I am currently between design layouts… again. I was using WP-polaroid theme by Adii, but it wasn’t the right one for me as it wasn’t widget ready, which led me to only show on post at a time or otherwise there would be a wide open blank space to the right of the page, as ... More About: Theme
Weekend, Dreams and? Pain
2008-04-15 13:53:00 So I had an extremely fun weekend - The highlight of which had to be White Rabbit at Voodoo Lounge. When we initially arrived there, it was pitch black - yes, you guessed it - LOAD SHEDDING! After about an hour of sitting in the dark and chatting to Marnus (The director of the music video), ... More About: Life , Dreams , Party , Blogging , Random
This is so NOT me!
2008-04-12 04:48:00 One of my friends recently tagged me in this photo on Facebook. That is so not what I look like, or any indication of my personality. More About: Funny , House , Life , Blogging
Plans For The Weeked
2008-04-10 02:55:00 The weekend is fast approaching again, and I can’t wait - I thought that I would update it on the blog as well, partially to please my stalkers and secondly so that I can remember it as well, as I don’t have a PDA, day planner or PA. Tomorrow night (Yes, The weekend begins on Phuza ... More About: Cricket , Personal , Life , Party , Random
Global Warming - The Extent
2008-04-10 02:40:00 Now that my blog has its pretty CSS back after “Naked CSS day”, I can blog without fearing the scrutiny of the web designers out there! We all know that Global warming is a really big deal, I saw Al Gore’s an inconvenient truth, and that gave me an insight into how global warming is affecting ... More About: Global Warming , Blogging , Random
CSS Naked Day - 9 April 2008
2008-04-09 06:17:00 Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008 , hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked. This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and ... More About: Design , Blogging , Random
What is going on?
2008-04-09 03:41:00 My blogging has been very erratic lately. I recently switched back to Androas.com as opposed to socialite.co.za this has to do with the fact that a personal blog projects an image of you, I felt socialite did project the correct image. I have been going through themes as well with no one consistent theme. I ... More About: Personal , Life , Blogging , Update
Update on Ancestry Visa
2008-04-09 03:01:00 I recently did a post on Ancestry Visa s. I went to see the friendly lady over at the OVC in hatfield. She advised me on the following requirments A letter stating I have accomodation in the UK A copy of the passport of the person who invites me to stay with them. Copy of the utility bill of ... More About: Personal , Life , Blogging , Update
UK Ancestry Visa
2008-03-31 02:06:00 I don’t overall think of myself as a lucky person, but I must say, I did choose my genes wisely. My grandfather on my mothers side of the family was born in Manchester, England - That entitles me to an Ancestry visa. For those of you who don’t know, an ancestry visa entitles you stay in ... More About: Personal , Life , Blogging , Random , Visa
I?m Getting Borred Of Facebook
2008-03-30 03:55:00 I saw this brilliant video on Milos Radovic’s website - This is exactly how I feel. “Facebook is a crime when people have too much time” More About: Personal , Funny , Life , Blogging , Random
The Grid
2008-03-30 03:07:00 I recently saw a “the urbanista Diaries” ad on CNN’s website. I found it rather interesting and clicked away. Four bloggers travel the globe and document their travels in a rather unique way. When they pass something of interest, they snap a shot or take a video and post it to the web, the twist is ... More About: Blogging , Random , Grid , Social Network
Developer?s Jackpot Competition
2008-03-29 21:26:00 Recently whilst browsing the SA blogosphere, I happened to stumble upon a very exciting competition - Normally I am not very good at competitions, but its something to blog about. Adii created a brand-spanking-new theme, LiveWire, It comes out in three different flavors to cater for almost all areas of the publication industry. The most exciting ... More About: News , Design , Competition , Developer , Blogging
Deonisa?s Wedding
2008-03-29 20:15:00 So this past Friday was My good friend Deonisa’s Wedding . Those of you who follow me on twitter will be well aware of that as I was very excited and couldn’t stop twittering about it. It was an amazing wedding… My Brother, My Mom and I drove together as it was just out of Pretoria, and ... More About: Personal , Life , Party , Blogging
NewMedia08
2008-03-27 10:12:00 I so wish I could attend the NewMedia 08 conference. Unfortunately that won’t happen this year, but I did find two cool resources to keep up to date: Hashtags: NewMedia08 If you follow @hashtags on twitter, it will follow you, and every time you post something with a “#” in front of it it will index it ... More About: Blogging , Twitter , Conference
Amatomu Issues
2008-03-26 07:54:00 I was rather surprised to see that my (then two week old) blog, Socialite, was still ranked 1909th on Amatomu. With my previous blog, Androas, I normally ranked about 500th, and lets face it, Socialite is way better. This puzzled me, I began to doubt the workings of Amatomu. I queried a few bloggers around the ... More About: Love , Blogging , Issues , Link , Ranking
My Apocalyptic Weekend
2008-03-24 20:40:00 So I didn’t get to post to much over the weekend, partially due to the fact that I was excruciatingly sick - It seems that I ate a bad Piemans Pie (Note to self, never trust Garage Pies). Those of you following me on twitter would be aware of the fact that in total I ... More About: Personal , Life , Lebanese , Party , Soccer
SpringLeap SEO and SA Blogosphere
2008-03-21 03:04:00 Recently Eric Edelstein from Springleap launched a SEO competition, the aim is to see who can manage to get the top SERPs for the term “springleap” on organic Google. I have been reading a lot about it on the SA Bloggosphere and twitter (I happen to follow the “chosen few” - Christopher M, Rafiq, Adii, Eric ... More About: Personal , Blogging , Random , Blogosphere
Paris Has Landed
2008-03-20 17:09:00 Great News! Paris Hilton has landed in South Africa. She is here with her boyfriend and Benji Madden From one of my favorite bands, Good Charlotte. The latter is here to perform at My Coke fest 2008 to be held in Jozi tomorrow (21 March), which I will not be attending due too large volumes ...
German Translation
2008-03-20 17:06:00 Every now and then, a brilliant European writer (or, in this case, Dictator) pens a brilliant biography, autobiography, essay or novel. The problem with this is that most of them prefer to write in their mother tongue… I am bust reading Mein kampf, for those of you who may not know this, it was written by ... More About: Personal , Life , German , Blogging , Random
Something that means something - Diesel Wall 2008
2008-03-12 19:11:00 ART DEMOCRACY! With this idea in mind, Diesel created DIESEL WALL, a competition dedicated to young artists and designers, to offer them the opportunity to showcase their works on an extraordinary scale: monumental, freestanding vertical walls in the centres of world?s most important cities. The ultimate goal being to salvage what prominent precious public space ... More About: Design , Barcelona , Switzerland , Blogging
Catherine Tate aka Lauren Cooper
2008-03-12 17:24:00 Catherine Tate might be one of the funniest people alive, I have added a video, but be sure to search YouTube for more sketches. More About: Comedy , Funny , Blogging , Random , Cooper
Solar Leaves
2008-03-10 10:01:00 I recently saw this on TreEvolution, you might think this is a bit out of my style, seeing as this site is dedicated to my undying devotion to becoming a South African Socialite (be it a Web 2.0 one or not). I believe that with great power comes great responsibility (Thnx Spidy’s Gran) so every ... More About: Design , Blogging , Solar , Leaves
Flock is the WEB 2.0 browser
More articles from this author:2008-03-08 01:38:00 A friend recently introduced me to Flock, Flock is the perfect browser for a WEB 2.0 junkie such as myself (or in other word a web socialite). Flock logs into your accounts such as G mail, Yahoo , Picasa, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube , Blogger etc. It then aggregates the feeds directly to your browser which ... More About: Gmail , Web 2 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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