Category: General

Today, the petrol price went up again, this time to R7.01 per litre in Gauteng (where half the country's population lives). Knock-on effects include increases in the cost of transporting, well, practically everything. This includes food and clothing – you know – the little things …

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Brazil is experiencing a crime wave that, after reading the articles, seems to be similar to ours: senseless violent crimes, with a blatant disregard for human life. Of course, that's my opinion, and in the words of our own esteemed president, a "perception".

I read an interesting article on News24 last week (the link for which has been misplaced), that says more kids are killed in South Africa by road accidents than HIV/AIDS. This is more proof that the traffic situation is out of control. I get fined R500 for not seeing a concealed traffic light in anContinue reading Interesting

I spent the weekend watching 'Allo 'Allo and playing Need For Speed. Tomorrow I plan to do much the same. M had to work this morning – we got a call at around 01h45 from a doctor to say "you're the only one on call". Needless to say, it disturbed our sleep.

When I inherited the Ford Fiesta from M, it came with a name: Mildred. I've always chosen my own name for my vehicles. It started with Doris, the gold 1984 Daihatsu Charade, and then Donna, the "true blue" Ford Tracer Tonic. When I got my silver Mercedes, she was named called Dorothy. Unfortunately, she was written off less than a month later, and then I got a white Mercedes which I called Morag.

Today I got my laptop back, and it seems to be happy. The replaced fan is a little noisy, but the old dog seems to be quicker than before. I'll stay away from Vista and just use it as my dev box now.

First National Bank started a competition a couple of years ago offering the chance to win R1 million every month for every R250 you deposited in a non-interest-bearing account. It sounded fishy to me and I never took part.

The public broadcaster aired a documentary on circumcision recently, and traditional leaders (what a misnomer, that is) decided that the ancestors were offended, and a cow must now die to appease them (the ancestors). See related link.

The idiot word of the day is "wilf", short for "what was I looking for?", in the context of aimless web browsing.