Author: Renosterperd!
It's my newly-coined Afrikaans word for unicorn.
Kgalema Motlanthe
I've just edited the article on Wikipedia for Kgalema Motlanthe, cleaning up the last paragraphs to do with Pikoli, and citing sources. It reads much easier now.
Sometimes, “D’oh!” just doesn’t cut it …
"In the course of this discussion [Nicholson] changed the rules of the game, took his eyes off the ball and red-carded not only players but also spectators". Nicholson then overstepped his judicial authority by failing "to confine the judgement to the issues before the court; by deciding matters that were not germane or relevant; by creating new factual issues; by making gratuitous findings against persons who were not called upon to defend themselves; by failing to distinguish between allegation, fact and suspicion; and by transgressing the proper boundaries between judicial, executive and legislative functions."
Pythonesque
Last 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 🙂
Petrol price dropping again
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?
Happy new year!
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!
Things you can only get away with saying at Christmas
1: I prefer breasts to legs.
New Year’s Resolution
Same as the old one – be kind to animals and children, in that order.
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.