SA vs AUS – The greatest cricket match in history

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Posted on 13 March 2006 South Africa Sport

SA vs Aus DVDUpdate: The DVD is available from Kalahari.net!

Its a 3 DVD box set. The 1st DVD contains a highlights package of the entire series – Pro20 game and the 5 ODI’s. The other 2 DVDs consist of the entire 5th ODI match, with ball by ball coverage. It is a real collectible that you will watch for years to come.

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438 – The Greatest One-Day Game SA Cricket

For those of you that got to watch South Africa take on the Aussies in the 5th and final one-day international at the Wanderers on Sunday, might not be able to comprehend what happened. The match had so many emotions in it that you felt that someone had died and you had won the lottery on the same day.

Depressing = watching Australia taking the South African bowlers to the cleaners for the highest one-day score ever, 434/4.

Utter exhilaration = Seeing South Africa come out and actually surpass that mammoth total to win the match and series, and take the record for the highest one-day score, 438/9

This series will go down in history as one of the most exciting series between these two countries and you could not have scripted a better one-day final, even if you tried. Records were broken on Sunday that will take years to beat, if not never.

The records that tumbled

Highest team total: 438 – beating Sri Lanka’s 398 against Kenya
Highest total runs of runs: 872
Most sixes in a ODI: 26 – previous record was 21
Most fours in a ODI: 87 – previous record was 79
Bowler conceding the most runs in a ODI: Mick Lewis bowled 10 overs for 113 runs.
Herschelle Gibbs scored 175 – the second highest score for South Africa, the highest South African score against Australia and the quickest century by a South African.

For those of you that might not understand the wonderful game of cricket, I will compare what happened yesterday to a game of soccer (football): The top two teams in the world, Brazil and Argentina play in a tournament final. The first half sees Brazil score 20 goals and leave Argentina stunned as they go into half-time 20-0 down. (As you can see, all records are smashed with that amount of goals). After half-time Argentina come out and in the final 30 seconds of the game take the score to 21-20, beating the world’s best team. That’s what South Africa did yesterday. They rewrote the history books.

Today, I don’t think I could be any prouder to be a South African. It was amazing.

HTML Statistics

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Posted on 10 March 2006 Code

Everyone loves statistics, especially us web designers. From checking your traffic stats 5 times a day to Technorati this or that, everyone likes to compare stats.

So a couple of okes did a web study on sites that validated, which type of HTML tags were most common or how many different ID tags were used. These studies were based on less than 1000 websites or pages. So the results are more interesting than conclusive. December 2005 roles around and in steps Big Daddy and did “an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents”. Woah… Read More »

Randomness and updates

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Posted on 7 March 2006 Rants Raves updates

Just some interesting flimda’s that are going on around the globe of late.

1. Everyone knows this already, but Tsotsi won an Oscar for best foreign film on Sunday night. That’s South Africa’s second oscar!

2. For those of you that read like reading the news on the net, why not try out Newsvine. Newsvine is a place where everyone can read, write and influence the news. I have my own column there at blogs.newsvine.com.

3. For all those people that might be interested in signing up at Dreamhost, check out Dreamhost codes.

4. Lonelyfinger.com has come out of the closet, and low and behold, it was 5FM. What was a really mysterious build-up and alot of hype generated, turned out to be a dud. C’mon 5FM, get a life.

5. For those of you interested in stats programs for your websites and blogs, do yourself a favour and check out www.crazyegg.com and www.mapsurface.com

That should keep you all busy for a while. ;-)

Blog update

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Posted on 27 February 2006 Personal updates

For all of you interested, I’ve signed up for the Spring edition of CSS Reboot.

The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals. May 1st, 2006 at 6:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns simultaneously, bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great.

Well no blockquote styling as you can see, and thats just 1 in a long list of things I want to change around here. :-) You can go and visit my reboot page to checkup on where I am with the redesign. I will be posting the progress in the comments over there.

62 days until the 1st of May reboot. No procrastinating over here, pal. ;-)

How to upgrade Access to MSSQL 2005

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Posted on 22 February 2006 Tutorials

We all love to hate Microsoft don’t we? :-) If there is something that [tag]Microsoft[/tag] have got spot on is [tag]Microsoft SQL Server 2005[/tag]. In my opinion there is no better Database engine. So you can take Oracle and its ridiculous price tag and click uninstall, because MSSQL 2005 is here to stay.

Anyway, back to the topic of this post – [tag]Upgrading[/tag] [tag]Microsoft Access[/tag] to Microsoft SQL 2005. I had this challenge while on my adventure recently. We had to convert 4 Access DB’s to MSSQL 2005 because we needed the data in order to compare with other 2005 DBs. We tried using linked servers across network domains, but that can really be a pain because of user rights, and really, no commercial application should be written in Access. Read More »

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