Author: Happy Birthday
To my mother, who is celebrating her 22nd birthday again. She is 22 because she's older than me and I'm 21. Stay tuned for my 30th birthday in a month's time.
Why I’ve been so quiet on my blog
At work we're taking up slack from people who've left under odd circumstances with deadlines unmet. I've been working on a parser to import data from mainframe flat files into SQL Server, which is then processed and put into Excel reports for viewing.
My letter to Sentech
I've written five pages of letter (1.5 spacing, justified, 2" margins) to Sentech, which took me a shade over 100 minutes to compose. If you want to read it, I'll put it on the blog, but it is long. I'm posting it via registered mail on 13 November (Monday).
Quote of the day
"A couple of years ago I was sitting in the Kodak Theatre with my acceptance speech in my pocket, waiting to get up and say that I was the first openly gay actor to win an Oscar. Unfortunately, that was the year the blacks won." – Ian McKellen
Subversive, Extremely Nonsensical Twats Engineering Communication Headaches
I collected a letter from the post office today. The registered letter slip said it was delivered on 2 November 2006. This was deposited under my door by the post office this week only.
All is quiet on the Northern front
I just wrote another exam today, this one being one of two Criminology modules. I write the second one on Monday. Then next Friday is the last one, being some Education exam on adolescent psychology.
Blog upgraded
I just upgraded my blog to SPB 0.4.9. Nice new features, etc.
Novels and bad taste
I've already fallen three days (10%) behind in my novel writing, so I'm going to take today to catch up. At around 1700 words a day, that's 5000! I'll probably still be going at midnight, at which point I'll have to add on another 1700 … this *is* tough.
SABC Revisited
Thank you to Jane Thomson from the SABC who has resolved my double-payment problem and refunded me as promised.
Groot Krokodil
There is so much hate surrounding the death of PW Botha (see related link), former president of South Africa, and generally considered the last apartheid leader.