Month: April 2006

For the last half an hour I've been skinning a goat. It had facial hair and everything. After putting his face over my own for fun, I received two written warnings:

I finally did it. I was tasked to convert the business logic in an internal application from Visual Basic 6 to C# 2005, for use in our new .NET application. I could have done it the "easy" way by upgrading the project to VB.NET first, and then using C-Sharpener to convert the upgraded project to C#.

The Franklin Players Community Theatre group began in 1962, and has been a staple of Johannesburg amateur drama since then (including being a founder member of SANCTA). I have been involved now for a little under a year, and as of 1 May 2006, my company will be hosting the Franklin Players website. It's good to know that I can offer something to a group that has helped me channel my creativity.

I trust everyone had a good Easter weekend. I consumed copious amounts of chocolate in my attempt to celebrate yet another commercially hijacked religious experience.

Google Calendar. No, really. It is awesome. Some might say it’s even fabulous.

Robbers cut the soles off an 62-year-old man's feet before forcing him and his wife to put their feet in a bath of boiling water. This was in KwaZulu Natal, and is only ONE of the attacks happening on farms and smallholdings in South Africa. In another attack, an elderly couple were beaten with hammers while the thieves got away with a car, some money and a cellphone. The car was abandoned a few kilometres away.

Pretoria – The Democratic Alliance has expressed shock at reports that a man was “lost” for eight hours – and then mistaken for a woman – by staff at Pretoria Academic Hospital. Read the article on News24.com.

I blame the increase in global obesity on daytime television.

With apologies to Gary Larson for the title, I originally wanted to put "The Christians are restless", but decided against it at the last second (and I'm too lazy to change it now).