My hosting provider improved the PHP security on this website with a change that required a modification of every single page (357 of them at last count). I have hopefully completed this task, which was not pleasant.

Today my website, although probably in its fifth incarnation, has officially turned nine years old. I began with a single page website back on Sunday, 14 October 1995, and today I have been running a personal website for 3288 days. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me. Incidentally, some of the very first wordsContinue reading Happy Birthday Dear Website

The end of the month … My esteemed insurance company chose to pay me out what they call the “retail” value of the car, which ended up being R10 000 less than what I paid (over 20% of the value of the car). Also, R2 000 additional for the radio which has not been forthcoming,Continue reading Dire Straits Direct

My Mercedes-Benz was written off on 29 July 2004 by a Bantam bakkie (that's a light delivery vehicle or "pick-up" for non-South Africans), that failed to check the main road for traffic whilst crossing the intersection from a stop street. I was not even travelling 50km per hour. I'm fine, although whiplash is taking a slight toll on my flexibility. I'm getting tired of the lawlessness on the roads – see my comments about this here and here.

I never thought I’d say it, but a character I’ve invented scares the crap out of me so much that I can’t write for more than a few minutes at a time. The latest addition is to the Intruder series is called Marek.

I know, I know, I've been a lazy bastard with my weblog. Tough shit, I say. I've been busy. I'm writing my second module exam for Introduction to the Theory of Law on Tuesday. I'm trying to improve my job prospects, and various other stuff.

Well, the fuss with my website has subsided somewhat. I've now had over 33 000 hits in the last 12 days thanks to the anonymous advertisement on AOL for April Fool's Day.

The most incredible thing happened today. April Fool's Day has traditionally never been particularly interesting in my life. However, today, since around 8am EST (USA is around eight hours behind), my website has received over 11 000 hits and is still rising. I managed to obtain the originating address, from AOL. I would like to thank whomever it was that put my URL on AOL's website, and for the resulting traffic. I just hope my ISP doesn't get too upset with me.

I have not been updating my blog as much as I would have liked to, but the good news is that I've been far too busy work-wise, so there you go. There is (are?) a number of various projects up my sleeve, and of course none too soon, as my retainer will be greatly reduced by the end of April at my old company.