Classes have been suspended at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) city campus following three days of often violent protests over proposed fee increases.

Earlier on Wednesday students were forced to flee and 37 were later arrested as police opened fire with rubber bullets.

In a terse statement on Wednesday night, university spokesman Thami Nkwanyane said: “The executive management this afternoon decided to suspend classes on the Cape Town Campus as well as at the Thomas Patullo Building (satellite campus) following three days of protest action by students.

Anda Bici, a member of CPUT’s student representative council which had called the strike on Monday, was equally terse on Tuesday night: “We’ll do whatever it takes to make our voices heard even if the university is closed.”

Here are some photos of the students causing havoc inside the buildings, vandalising property and stealing

The 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint stadium is progressing nicely and nearing completion. Work on the stadium is being done around the clock to ensure that the stadium is completed on time and handed over to the City of Cape Town.

The stadium is expected to be finished on December 4 and handed over to the City of Cape Town on December 14, 2009.

You can find daily photos of the progress of the 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint Stadium on http://greenpointstadium-and-capetown.blogspot.com/

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Todays Friday Eye Candy features Heidi Montag, she is all the hype currently on the web due to the Playboy shoot she did. Though Heidi says she will be featured on two Playboy covers, there is no real nudity. So for all of you hoping to see Heidi Montag nude, think again. You will just have to get by with those bikini pics! Or her Stuff magazine, or Maxim photos.

Where you’ve seen her: Heidi Montag is an intern for Bolthouse Productions in Los Angeles. She used to study at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising but dropped out after realizing that she does not really want to go to school.

Heidi Montag is one of the cast members of MTV’s reality show, The Hills. In the show, Heidi was a friend of Audrina Patridge and the roommate of Lauren Conrad. She first dated Jordan Eubanks then broke up with him after eight months, only to go out with Spencer Pratt. Incidentally, Pratt is the best friend of Brody Jenner, who dated Conrad for a short time. When Lauren and Spencer could not find a way to get along, Heidi ended her friendship with her.

After feeling that she and Spencer fought too much, she moved out of the apartment they shared at the end of last season. She moved home to Colorado to take space and think about what she wanted. The two have since reconciled and Spencer is helping Heidi with her music career. Their marriage plans are still off.

Pointless quote: I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I’m reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I’m also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I’m very religious. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Earlier today, Thursday, users of the micro social networking site twitter could not access it due to a denial of service attack.

On the twitter blog co-founder Biz Stone acknowledged the attack stating “Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack“. Service is now restored and twitter are now defending this attack.

A denial of service attack involves bombarding a Web site or server with more traffic than it can handle, effectively causing online gridlock. Often such attacks are distributed, meaning that multiple computers, usually compromised by malware, send data to the target site in unison.

Twitter was offline for about two and a half hours. The Twitter status page says that Twitter availability has been restored. The site’s last significant unplanned downtime occurred on May 30 following a software error.

Another great ad from the house of Leo Burnett, Chicago, for the new Samsung Solstice mobile phone.

After a very pleasant past weekend the rain has decided to hit Cape Town again.

Cape Tonians can expect rain during the coarse of today and some more tomorrow, from Thursday we will have some cloudy to partly cloudy days lasting us through the weekend with tempratures averaging in the high 10′s and low 20′s.

Monday which is a puplic holiday we will see some more rain so be carefull when you are on the road heading back if you went away for the long weekend.

Unfortunately, with the release of 2.8.2 the guys at WordPress missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  Luckily, the entire WordPress community has their backs.  Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked.  With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3.  Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended.  Download 2.8.3, or upgrade automatically from your admin dashboard.

A few month back when Microsoft launched their brand new search engine Bing, the only thing I liked about the search engine was the images search options, something google images lacked.

Now a few month after Google announced their plans for search options on images, they rolled it out.

This new feature offers quick access to existing tools, including search by color and image type. Color search will find images that are only in color or only in black and white, or even images that contain a specific color, such as red, pink, or green. Type search is a great way to narrow down your results if you are looking for a specific kind of image, such as a photo, clip art, line drawing or face.

Google also revamped their size search. In addition to choosing from commonly searched-for sizes, now you can search for an exact image size or any image larger than a certain size. You can find images of practically any size, including 70 megapixels or more.

The new layout makes it faster and easier to combine and toggle between options. It also makes it easier for Google to add additional image search options in the future, so keep your eyes peeled. Just click “Show options…” in the blue bar on the search results page to try out any of these tools.