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Month: December 2008

General Humour December 31, 2008December 6, 2023 | 1 Comment on Things you can only get away with saying at Christmas

Things you can only get away with saying at Christmas

1: I prefer breasts to legs.

General December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment on New Year’s Resolution

New Year’s Resolution

Same as the old one – be kind to animals and children, in that order.

Technology December 28, 2008December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment on MTNzania

MTNzania

In 1994, South Africa entered the cellular phone market. You could either get with Vodacom, 50% owned by the hated Telkom (and the other 50% by Vodafone, who now has a controlling share), or "the better connection", MTN.

Tasteless Humour December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment on In the Smiters of Iniquity, what day is tomorrow?

In the Smiters of Iniquity, what day is tomorrow?

As I posted in 2006:

Announcements December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment on Smiters of Iniquity Shop

Smiters of Iniquity Shop

Some very basic products, like t-shirts, mugs and clocks, are available from the Smiters of Iniquity Shop. Let's see if this thing makes money.

General Humour December 24, 2008February 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment on Who woulda thunk it?

Who woulda thunk it?

Robert Mugabe, despite his high ranking on the NMC list (see the Smiters Of Iniquity link to the right), said the funniest thing this week, as seen in The Star:

General December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment on Blog software sucks

Blog software sucks

I want to migrate my blog from simplephpblog to something running on MySQL. The trouble is, there's nothing that I like. I like this one, but it's not DB-enabled. The Moveable Types of the world look more complicated than necessary. Then there's the small matter of moving all the entries to the DB easily …

Announcements December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment on It’s my birthday …

It’s my birthday …

La la la

Tasteless Humour December 6, 2008December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment on Shrek’s first name: Barry

Shrek’s first name: Barry

See related link for original source.

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