Officially disguised as a Canadian
Author: RandolphFirst National Bank started a competition a couple of years ago offering the chance to win R1 million every month for every R250 you deposited in a non-interest-bearing account. It sounded fishy to me and I never took part.
– "Jesus saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups."
At work we're getting a new hardware infrastructure to support growth in our department. Amongst blade servers and whatnot, we're also getting one of these. It's coming with 17 drives and 16GB of RAM.
A person of very little brain common sense has blamed advertising, children's power and anything else she can think of for the reason kids are so fat today (see related link).
This joke has been doing the rounds again, so I thought I'd post it to brighten up your day:
The public broadcaster aired a documentary on circumcision recently, and traditional leaders (what a misnomer, that is) decided that the ancestors were offended, and a cow must now die to appease them (the ancestors). See related link.
The fancy new website for the National Traffic Information System (see related link), which is going live with a new system on Friday, had this to say. It was at 22:23 local time, three days before launch:
George Orwell was right, but just a few years out. See related link.
The idiot word of the day is "wilf", short for "what was I looking for?", in the context of aimless web browsing.
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