This music video by the band called “Straatligkinders” (Afrikaans for Street Light Children) is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long, long time. What makes it even more special is the fact that it is by a South African band and producers. Even if you do not know Afrikaans, the video is well worth the watch. The song is also not bad at all! The song is called “Avontuur van ‘n hartbreek” (English: Adventure of a heartbreak). It sounds heavily influenced by Killswitch Engage. I saw on the Facebook page that Killswitch Engage is listed as one of their influences, which explains everything! Great song. Great video!
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How fitting! With my morning coffee and cigarette, I saw this most odd looking worm. It has a fan shaped head, so I took a quick couple of pics and Googled for some answers. Lo-and-behold! Its an Arrowhead Flatworm according to the bug expert. A weird looking bugger, but a totally harmless garden worm. They do get quite big. This one is about 15cm long, but on whatsthatbug.com there are some big ones! Funny, but nowhere I found record of them in South Africa. Its the first time I’ve seen one of these myself!
Here is some of the photos I took:
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This weekend I read in the paper how a proudly South African said that instead of bitching and moaning, we should help combat crime, etc… Well, this guy sure did something. He built a safe around his pedals. The safe is made of 4mm steel and fitted to the body with 6 x 10mm bolts. As an extra measure the guy also welded the safe to the body, just in case, according to the person who took the photos.
Look, I don’t think its foolproof, but it will sure as hell make a thief’s job harder!
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With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past the decimal. Pi is an irrational number meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating. The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popular after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1737.
Amazing, isn’t it?!
I’m a bit late, but I’m ordering me a cool π shirt for next year!
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Pink Floyd is beyond doubt one of my favorite bands. Their philosophical lyrics, psychedelic/progressive sound and David Gilmour’s guitar(s) crunching and weeping.
When I first bought the DVD “David Gilmour - Remember that night - Live at The Royal Albert Hall” I was a bit doubtful. He left out some serious favorites from The Wall like Mother, Goodbye blue sky, Another brick in the wall, Run like hell and from the album A momentary lapse of reason, On the turning away, which I though was a bit disappointing. David Bowie also did Comfortably Numb, which coincidently is one of my favorites and the first one I looked at and immediately thought “Argh no, Bowie, your messing it up, man!”. Needless to say it grew on me. It is different as Bowie sings it as Bowie and when Gilmour takes over at the chorus, it is Pink all the way! A beautiful collaboration.
It is a fantastic show. As elaborate and spectacular as you would expect from an ex Pink member. After watching it, I watched it again. I suddenly realised that I’m not even missing those classics anymore. I still have to watch the second DVD with the bonus tracks and documentary, but for the moment I’m stuck on the music, so it will have to wait.
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It seems like it is official according to Techcrunch. Microsoft made a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Quite a hefty amount of money if you ask me, but strangely I thought it should have been more. Strange.
Anyway, from a technical perspective, I wonder if all Yahoo!’s assets are going to have to “convert” to more Microsoft-centric technologies or if Microsoft is going to keep it as it is. In that case, I wonder how many of Yahoo!’s assets run on Linux. Even more so, I wonder if Microsoft is going to stop their “we’ll sue you for patent infringement” bullshit once and for all if that is the case. I reckon it would be quite interesting to know these things. Anyone got a bunch of links to some of the above mentioned information?
I’m almost dead sure Facebook does NOT run on IIS/Windows servers. I might be wrong, but I doubt it. If Facebook does in fact run on Linux, I have three words for Mark Zuckerberg: “Watch you back…”
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Today I phoned Telkom to upgrade my ADSL line to a 4Meg line. It took me all of 15 minutes just to verify that I’m me due to the systems that slower than a sloth. So off this call centre oke goes:
“You know, this bloody country… The power must be off somewhere and some servers must be down. Eish, these Eskom guys are pathetic. You know, the CEO gets something like a million Rand a month. If they cut his salary by R600 000, then he’ll still have a half decent salary (realy?! you don’t say!). You know how many people they can employ with R600 000??? 15 000 @ R4000 per month. Those guys, they really don’t know what they’re doing. Yesterday, a client had to hold for 20 minutes just so I could complete his order. Yadayadayada…”
At that point I has literally laughing out loud as I thought it was simply too good that Telkom blames Eskom of bad service! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Priceless.
To top it all off, after I held on for almost 20 minutes to do my order, this guy tells me:
“Sorry sir, but I’m not authorised to complete this order. Please hold while I transfer you to one of my supervisors”
I rest my case. There is abso-bloody-lutely NO, NONE, NADA coincident that both these companies’ names ends in “KOM”…
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…if I was interested in your shitty deal-a-day, I would have visited your bloody website!
So, dealaday.co.za, please for the love of Nana Mouskouri, explain to me just WHY you think I would be interested in your shit. Another thing is you’ve got my name all wrong. It is NOT “Deal Maker” last time I checked.
Going through my junk folder I see you’ve been sending me shit since Al Gore invented the internet.
I’ve never visited your site, nor did I subscribe to your deals. Well, how the hell could I subscribe to get your daily deals if I have never visited your site?! I sure as HELL did not subscribe on a mailing list of the people whose database you are using to SPAM. Who the hell is marketingdb.biz anyways?! I’d love to know how THEY got my email address!
Ok, I hear what you’re saying. I must unsubscribe and it will stop. Riiight. Well, tell you what. I’ll do just that since you both (deal-a-day and marketingdb.biz) are in South Africa and are contactable. Just for my own sanity. But should I get ONE MORE FUCKING EMAIL from you, I will… I will… I will crap in my pants. BIG shit.
Is there not laws of any kinds against SPAMMING like this? Paul? Do you know?
BTW, is this a good deal?! Just out of pure curiosity, of course!
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“…January should be a busy month for the Afrigator team as they prepare to get their current beta version live…”
and
“…Throughout the rest of the year I believe they will focus on aggregating African Social Media by tapping into more API’s of African sites instead of relying on huge international sites such Flickr and YouTube…”
Tyler, dude, scary how accurate you can predict the future. Spot on, but there are quite a few new surprises waiting. I’m going to have to get my fat ass into serious gear and iron out the current bugs, so that we can start development of an array of new services (which I’d love to tell you about, but 3 other okes will have my hide should I do so…). So, best advice is to cheer me on so I can iron out the nasties and get cracking on the new/good stuff.
2007 ended in a crazy, crazy fashion. Therefore there was little energy and time spent on ironing out of the nasties in Afrigator. Thing is that the way 2007 ended was an exciting sign/omen for 2008. Lots will happen for me personally, so I was quite happy to let it ride and get it going.
On a personal level, I took a mini holiday between Christmas and now and it was intense and awesome. I’ve got some fantastic gifts for both Christmas and my birthday which awakened the “Jamie Oliver” in me and I’m now doing ALL the cooking duties in the house and are LOVING it! Yes, in the past my cooking repertoire was bland and boring, but with great new utensils it is picking up and I’ve discovered that great food is not a nice to have, but an absolute necesity. So I’ll be seriously honing my culinary skills. I’ve also realised that being over weight is SERIOUSLY overrated. Therefore I’ll be dusting off the squash raquet and jogging shoes and get into gear for a more active and healthier year.
May it be a great oh eight to you all!
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When Belinda started her blog it was when she had to study and write her UNISA exams.
I quote:
“After my somewhat disastrous exam yesterday morning, I really needed something to comfort the soul.”
I’m a proud hubby to let all and sundry know that this “disastrous” exam turned to be a pass with distinction. 93%!!!!! Now if that is disastrous I’d love to see what a good exam looks like! Well friggin’ done lovey!
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Its that magical constant number’s special day today again. 
It seems like it is official according to 
