Category: General

A bill tabled in Parliament, and recently approved by the National Council of Provinces, proposes to ban parents or guardians from spanking their children.

Work took an unpleasant but not unexpected turn. I've been having reservations about one of my colleagues, and just last week suspected something. Suffice to say that my feelings were correct. Just as well my work speaks for itself.

26, with four on confirmation hold! My sister is doing well though. Darn it.

I challenged my sister to see who has more friends on Facebook. Since I signed up on Wednesday night I have acquired 19 friends (the rule is that we have to actually know them in real life). If I keep this up, I will have approximately 1000 friends by the end of September.

The hosting of this site has moved to Germany.

I finally relented, and signed up last night with Facebook. This after spending six hours sleeping through a migraine. The headache is still there today, though I've been given some heavy duty drugs to help me through the day.

Eight years ago today, Owen Hart died during a World Wrestling Federation Pay-Per-View. This is my way of paying respect, by remembering him.

Deaf and blind, communicating by touch – they must be the happiest people in the world. Granted, they're a little old so images of marshmallows and parking meters come to mind, but still!

I was christened "Randolph". New research (see related link) shows that some people associate faces with names based on features. So, for example, a Bob would have a rounder face. Very interesting. People tell me I don't look like a Randolph. If I don't, then who do I look like?

That noise you hear is the sound of someone trying to get newspaper headlines by stating the obvious. Apparently, this being 2007 and all, it's been found that there was "flawed" evidence in the JFK assassination, which was almost 44 years ago.