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I just noticed that if you hold down ALT in Outlook 2007 you get helpful letters instead of underlines to show the short-cut key.

Was it really such an issue for people that they felt they had to spend resources on this "feature"?! o_0

Having been a Drupal fan for quite some time, I haven't really looked at other web frameworks. Indeed, I had missed the Ruby on Rails bandwagon, ignored twisted/nevow/... train, and didn't give Django a second thought. However, recently rooijan started talking about Django and made me curious.

I always appreciate an elegant solution to a problem. MTVoid has created a calculator app that is exactly that - elegant.

This ranks high in the "Random" and "So what?" categories, I know, but I found it quite interesting. While at my local Spar, I snapped the following pic of a not-quite-functional little video screen:

(English below)
Hieraŭ la Esperanto-Klubo Durbano denove renkontiĝis en la Durbana Botanika Ĝardeno por la renkontiĝo "Krokodiloj en la Parko" Estas renkonto kiu celas komencantojn kaj ne-esperantistojn. Male al la kutimo, krokodilado estas permesata.

Ni ĝojis bonvenigi novulon Wynand kiu estas meminstruita kaj sufiĉe bone jam komprenas Esperanton.

We had our first Durban City Orchestra concert for the year on Wednesday 1 August. We performed at Durban Girls College with their choirs. The programme was quite varied ranging from musicals to classical. We performed two orchestral pieces with pupils from the school as soloists. We accompanied the choirs in a few medleys from musicals, as well as Elton John's "Don't let the sun go down". Our encore was Marriage of Figaro Overture, famous for it's difficult bassoon passages. The tempo was manageable though, and it came off well.

Finally, some time to reflect about the first 27 Dinner (http://27dinner.pbwiki.com) in Durban. There were 27 people present and it was on the 27th of oh-seven, 2007. Isn't that cool?! The dinner attracted a surprisingly diverse group of people. Web design, IT, programming, retail, education, open source, marketing and dentistry were all represented. The evening was hosted by Dave Duarte (http://www.daveduarte.co.za) and Marc Forrest (Durbz Blog, http://durbzblog.blogspot.com) with Graham Knox (Stormhoek, http://www.stormhoek.co.za) and Anice Hassim (Immedia, http://www.immedia.co.za/), and Michael Chadbourne (Mike's Desk, http://www.mikesdesk.za.net/) doing the speaking. Eran Eyal (eSquared, http://esquaredfashion.co.za/durban/) gave away a designer t-shirt voucher in return for some thoughts. There were freebies a plenty, with wine sponsored by Stormhoek, and goodies by (Storm, http://www.storm.co.za) and East Coast Radio.

I was bored, so I went to amatomu. There I noticed Durbzblog, by Marc. The posts about Mauritius caught my eye, and I started to read further, and doing so I found a link to Marc's Facebook. Amongst the wall posts I noticed Dave Duarte (whom I've run into a few times on the interwebs), asking Marc for help organising a 27dinner in Durban.