Crumpet
This is lifted from The English-to-American Dictionary, located at http://www.english2american.com/.
Oh no, it’s Chuck Norris
All Chuck Norris facts are now in the Canonical List of Chuck Norris Facts.
On the murder of bees
I work with a software engineer who was born in Bulgaria. I say it this way, as he took offence once when I referred to him as "the Bulgarian". Anyway, we have created a tradition of having lunch together quite often, and during these lunches, we discuss many and varied topics of conversation.
Online Storage
Maybe I've fallen for all the conspiracy talk, and maybe I've watched the Terminator movies too often, but I've been keeping my eye on developments from Google since they went public and their stock price went through the roof, and I'm officially worried. Until last week, I was just uneasy.
Thoughts
1) Big Brother Nigeria: do we care? Well, no, because we already have Nigerians living in this country, traditionally associated with drug dealing and trafficking. Plus, MTN (one of only three cellular providers in this country) dumped us and ran for the Nigerian market, which apparently has four times the population of SA. Is that including or excluding the illegal Nigerian immigrants? The real question on everyone's (well, my) lips is: can we start voting Nigerians out of Ponte with one phonecall to DStv?
200 URLs
Since its beta launch on 3 February, ncane.com has notched up 196 URLs. I'm pleased with the uptake considering I've done zero advertising outside of my website.
Yawn
I am very tired today. I slept enough hours, but I guess the weekend took its toll. I worked all day on Saturday at the office to get an important synchronisation tool upgraded.
Trolley Fun
Just an aside that I had to share with the world. Earlier today, after my optometrist appointment, I was walking back to my car in an underground parking lot (the open air free parking was full). I walked down the trolley (“shopping cart” for the American readers) ramp and noticed an old guy in frontContinue reading Trolley Fun
On the launch of ncane.com
I nuked two follow-up entries about my copyright post, on recommendation from legal counsel.
Comment mail
ncane.com now allows you a 100-character description to attach to any link you're sending to a friend.