Eugene and I visited Hilton Baptist yesterday morning and saw some friends. Adrian Murray (what a boytjie!), Goose, Sam Walker (Kerry-Lynn’s older sister - Heath knows her but was the first time I met her) and Craig and Cindy de Waal. Kerry was in Durbs for a wedding. Cindy invited us for tea after the […]

After getting through 1373 pages of Harry Potter since Wednesday last week it’s back to reality, albeit one with a bit more magic than usual. Read both “The Order of the Pheonix” and “The half-blood Prince” - although I’d read the former before, when reading the intro to the latter it was referring to some […]

Lot’s of great (!) advice (!) here from the Worm who fronts The Finkelsteins. Here’s an extract:
Now that you’ve reinstated your position as the vulnerable, tortured artist, suggested that the band has a go at a cover song. Playing a cover is a good way to measure everyone’s musical competence, as well as pretending you’re […]

Internet access isn’t so great but this area is stunning. “Soul-restoring” as Barent - the owner of Kilgobbin’s Cottage says. I’ll be farm sitting from today, but I arrived on Saturday to get acquainted with things.
Technorati Tags: midlands, natal

3 days. 300 kms. Through the Drakensberg on a mountain bike - and through many world heritage sites. They say, “The intention is to make finishing all stages of the race achievable by a reasonably fit and determined  average cyclist, whilst at the same time providing a stern test for the serious racing cyclists. At […]

St Peter decides to take the day off to go fishing, so Jesus offers to keep an eye on the Pearly Gates. He is not sure what to do, so Peter tells him to find out a bit about people as they arrive in Heaven, and this will help him decide if he can let […]

Jakob Nielson writes about the “Top 10 design mistakes of blogs.”
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
Having a weblog address ending in blogspot.com, typepad.com, etc. will soon be the equivalent of having an @aol.com email address or a Geocities website: the mark of a naïve beginner who shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
Letting […]

Bonnie has finally viewed the message I left her on her video camera. She also posted a pic online - you can only really see the funny face I’m making in the bigger version. Luckily I won her “most creative video” award! Thanks Bonnie!

[Written by the comedian Emo Philips. Taken from Ship of Fools.]
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: “Stop. Don’t do it.”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Well, there’s so much to live for!”
“Like what?”
“Are you religious?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, […]

Simon Marcus has been asking me to send him funky sites. He needs them for varsity or something. These are the ones I sent him:
The Onion
Larknews
International Speak-like-a-Pirate Day