Officially disguised as a Canadian
Author: RandolphLast night Marinus took me to see Pythonesque at Montecasino in Fourways. He managed (with my help) to keep it a secret right to the point where we sat down, which is admirable considering that I paid for the tickets and signed for them at the box office 🙂
w00t! Petrol is coming down again on Wednesday 7 January 2009, to R6.01 per litre, or 64 US cents (43.8p) at today's prices. To my US readers, that's $2.42 per gallon. Is that good?
The subject line says it all, but here's to 2009. In an interesting bit of news, the 30GB Microsoft Zune player is affected by a feature bug which stops it working past 2008/12/31. Har har. Then again, I'm the guy who purposefully crippled an older version of ShutOff 2000 to stop working past 2007/12/31 andContinue reading Happy new year!
1: I prefer breasts to legs.
Same as the old one – be kind to animals and children, in that order.
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.
As I posted in 2006:
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.
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:
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 …