Category: General

Will someone please tell me, even if it's dirty, what a mannetjiesperd is? I'm not sure of the spelling, but apparently it isn't what it appears to be (much like the renosterperd).

Last year I said McCain would win, and if Obama won, I'd eat tomato. Well, I'm glad Obama won, and that the Electoral College made the right choice. In the meantime, I am pretty sure there was tomato in the bobotie my mother-in-law made on Sunday, so that's that, then.

I've just edited the article on Wikipedia for Kgalema Motlanthe, cleaning up the last paragraphs to do with Pikoli, and citing sources. It reads much easier now.

w00t! Petrol is coming down again on Wednesday 7 January 2009, to R6.01 per litre, or 64 US cents (43.8p) at today's prices. To my US readers, that's $2.42 per gallon. Is that good?

Same as the old one – be kind to animals and children, in that order.

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 …

Good bye, and thank you for the music.

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