Category: General

This is my way of remembering an ex colleague, Meg Vaessen, who died this week. Thanks for your help and friendship.

"According to preliminary research, the typical internet addict was a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use."

Everyone has heard of Mark Shuttleworth by now, South Africa's celebrated billionaire who sold out Thawte to VeriSign, and then went into space with the Russians.

Have you noticed that the general trend in naming a country "The Democratic Republic of X", or "The Democratic People's Republic of X" or even "The People's Republic of X" usually implies that there is no say by the people expressed in the country's name, except those in absolute power?

I just saw the hit counter of my site get 68,686 which is a cool number. Or not. I wonder who visitor 66,666 was?

Wilfred Cardinal Napier of the Catholic Church is another idiot, using religion in his argument against legalising same-sex marriage (see related link).

So last night we had dinner on our patio, which was nice. It was Woolworth's roast chicken, some pasta, gem squash and melted cheese, and an engagement ring.

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Billy Joel is coming, and we're going. Yeah!