Robbers cut the soles off an 62-year-old man's feet before forcing him and his wife to put their feet in a bath of boiling water. This was in KwaZulu Natal, and is only ONE of the attacks happening on farms and smallholdings in South Africa. In another attack, an elderly couple were beaten with hammers while the thieves got away with a car, some money and a cellphone. The car was abandoned a few kilometres away.

Pretoria – The Democratic Alliance has expressed shock at reports that a man was “lost” for eight hours – and then mistaken for a woman – by staff at Pretoria Academic Hospital. Read the article on News24.com.

I blame the increase in global obesity on daytime television.

With apologies to Gary Larson for the title, I originally wanted to put "The Christians are restless", but decided against it at the last second (and I'm too lazy to change it now).

For dinner, we're eating a concoction by Housemate Chris, which contains pasta, vegetables, Pasta Bake(TM) and chicken. It is actually very tasty. I asked Chris what it was called, and his reply prompted the title of this blog.

Bertrand Russell's original teapot analogy has appealed to my sense of humour. What with the Invisible Pink Unicorn and the Flying Spaghetti Monster protecting me, I think it is safe to say that I'm not going to be struck by lightning anytime soon.

As followers of my blog will know, I performed in the one-act play "Bar and Ger" (by Geraldine Aron) during the Franklin One-Act Play festival on 1 April 2006. While I didn't win anything, John Atkinson won for best director, Kathy Clayton won for best actress, and the play won for best production. Many people have told me I deserved to win, but I did not. Kudos to Christopher Dudgeon who did win, for his performance as Gus in "The Dumb Waiter" by Harold Pinter.

The judge in the Da Vinci Code case, where Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, claimed Dan Brown "appropriated the architecture" of their book in his novel, has prevailed with good sense (see related link).

Last night I set up my Mac properly, for the first time since I bought it second-hand two months ago. It’s the PowerPC G5 iMac (without the webcam), so it is around 6 months old now. As of last night, it is running the latest OS X 10.4.6 update, as well as Apache 1.3.33, MySQLContinue reading Mac