Next week I’m moving to Pretoria for the year, and in 2009 I may well end up in Cape Town. My reasons? Well, I need a change and Joburg life is feeling increasingly stale. Although there’s much I love about web development, I don’t love it enough to be doing it as the thing I […]

Andrew correctly answered the almost incredibly impossible question at a quiz evening last night (well, he got closest). The question is: How long would it take to row around Africa if you rowed at world record 2000m pace?
He answered 68.5 days and the answer was 69 and a few hours. A good answer is it’s […]

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.
Terry had married a woman from America, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning that needed doing at their house. He said that it took […]

An image search for “tiananmen” on Google.com and Google.cn reveal VERY different perspectives - because Google has agreed to censor its Chinese search results. The .com result shows many different pictures of a lone protestor standing in front of a column of tanks while the .cn results is all happiness and light - family photographs […]

Women think they already know everything, but wait; training courses are now available for women on the following subjects at Damelin:

Silence, the Final Frontier: Where No Woman Has Gone Before
The Undiscovered Side of Banking: Making Deposits
Parties: Going Without New Outfits
Man Management: Minor Household Chores Can Wait until After The Game
Bathroom Etiquette I: Men Need Space […]

Hooray for the guys! Matt, Stephan and Gareth and some guy who I’ve never met who probably plays either lead or backing electric - you rock! It doesn’t matter I’ve never heard you live! The point is, I’ve heard good things and today I get an email from Powerzone telling me that you were playlisted […]

To Greg Wynn in Chelmsford, England, to Heather B, staying close to Wimbledon. And to Lyndi, my beautiful sister working at a Thai restaurant in Bourne End. Greg just signed up with Skype this morning (greggles6399) and I got the privilege of being the first person to call him. Heather is smarkling_chick and we’ll probably […]

My cellphone isn’t taking messages when it’s on. I think my diverts are wrong. But thanks to this page at Vodacom I can use the following settings to divert calls to voicemail:
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Divert calls to voicemail when you expect to receive high volumes of calls.
Unconditional divert: **21*082131 [last seven digits of […]