Various photos of South African metal bands

Last Friday and Saturday, I went to R.O.A.R. (upstairs at Gandalf's in Lower Main road, Observatory. There were various bands playing. On Sunday, I uploaded some of the photos that I took and told two people about that. Monday morning there were 50 requests for permission to tag photos. These were death metal bands which do not get many spectators to begin with. The sudden flood of requests was rather unexpected.

Cufon and lightbox timing issues

I ran into a problem where I ran Cufon on page load using JQuery which worked fine. The website also has lightboxes using jqModal. These lighboxes get loaded in using AJAX.

Problem:
The Cufon script does not replace the text to use custom fonts when showing the lightbox.

Solution:
Cufon needs to run after displaying the lightbox. Running it as a callback function for an onShow event also does not seem to work. Running Cufon manually from an onclick event on the lightbox itself does work, which means there is a timing issue involved. Hopefully this helps whoever else has got this same problem.

Solar geyser installation pitfalls

Recently I spent a bit more than 14000 Rand on getting a solar geyser installed. It was a mission to get the money together. Some of that money came from my credit card. The geyser also included an Eskom rebate which was listed as a bit more than negative 4000 Rand, which then totaled in the 14000 amount. As far as I was concerned, the geyser was paid for at that company and installed and I just got to finish paying off my credit card as quickly as possible. I thought this Eskom rebate would be handled for me automatically.

Yesterday, I got an email about still owning over 4000. After some questions it turned out that I am supposed to pay that rebate amount as well and then take it up with Eskom to get the money back. If the original quote had said so from the beginning, then I could have planned my budget for it, now I got to make a plan on where to get that amount from. That company told me that they are so used to that, they they did not consider telling me about how this actually works. What me concerns, this is false quoting/advertising and misleading.

Note that the company that quoted for and installed the geyser was not Eskom. I did start to notice some saving on the pre-paid meter already.

Back at work

I am back at work again. Starting first day in 2011 on a Friday. Scheduled for the day is a desk move which will take most of the afternoon once we start.

Website success story

Recently I have noticed several cases where my decision to have actual costume photos on my costume hire website was really useful to various people in the area and even outside the city. Many people also told me that they make decisions based on the photos shown. A film company rented my cosutmes for an advert after looking at my products and even people in neighbouring towns and cities used my products based on those. None of my competitors do this and hence their actual customer area is much smaller.