New Year’s Resolution
Same as the old one – be kind to animals and children, in that order.
Blog software sucks
I want to migrate my blog from simplephpblog to something running on MySQL. The trouble is, there's nothing that I like. I like this one, but it's not DB-enabled. The Moveable Types of the world look more complicated than necessary. Then there's the small matter of moving all the entries to the DB easily …
State of the Nation
I read on News24.com that 50% of matriculants last year actually passed, of which only 7% will find jobs. So extrapolating that out, 96.5% of all matriculants will be unemployed.
So long, Miriam Makeba
Good bye, and thank you for the music.
Sitting at 10 751 page views now
The page has received over 10 000 page views now.
So I got 3000+ unique visits today
stumbleupon.com (referral) 3,015 83.38%
Um, yeah
It's been a while, and I'm sorry I haven't posted anything. Work is insanely busy, and I forced myself *not* to work tonight. Home life just got interesting, with some prospects that will be taking a direction from 25 November. When that time comes, we will know a little better what's happening. And yes, I'm still extraordinarily happily married, so it's nothing to do with that!
102,612 words, excluding these
My blog has 102 612 words, excluding this entry. In about ten years, I should have enough words to be equivalent to halfway through the first chapter of Stephen King's The Stand.
Zuma Zuma, Gautrain, Blatter and Blather
In December last year, I predicted that Jacob Zuma's court case, set for 14 August 2008, would be struck off the roll or delayed. Last week, his application for having the current charges ruled unlawful, was successful. The National Prosecuting Authority was found to have been influenced politically. Interesting times ahead for our outgoing president. There's even talk of impeachment.
Vote PC Mall for good service
Last Tuesday, I bought a Linksys AM200 ADSL modem from PC Mall. On Thursday, I dropped them an email asking when I could expect delivery. Someone called Iain replied with a vague email about freight and suppliers and so forth, indicating that I'd be in for a bit of a wait. So I contacted a friend and acquired a borrowed unit to sync my line on Thursday evening.