November 30th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
For the last few months I’ve been buying a cat food called Petite Anges. It’s made locally, is as good for the cats as the most expensive brands (and better than a lot of others – I checked the ingredients quite carefully), and is a lot cheaper.
Until recently that is…
November 30th, 2005 in Metal (Technical) ·
Hopefully most of my gazillion readers have noticed the new look, but I’ve also been upgrading the blog’s backend…
November 25th, 2005 in Water (Personal) ·
I have many CD’s. If I had to listen to them all, one after the other, it’d probably take me months to listen to any of them twice…
November 23rd, 2005 in Metal (Technical) ·
I’m having fun tightening up my holy-as-a-sieve server…
November 20th, 2005 in Metal (Technical) ·
I still have plans to start a hall of shame (I’ll think of a better name) of dysfunctional websites in South Africa, not to humiliate the perpetrators, but to encourage them to make their sites more usable…
November 17th, 2005 in Water (Personal) ·
I’m finally settling into my new home. It has the most stunning views over the city, harbour and mountains behind. The pictures of course don’t do it justice…
November 17th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
Another update about 20Twenty. Its fate apparently rests upon the whims of a like-minded financial services provider, with whom negotiations have progressed well.
Below is the full body of the mail they sent me…
November 12th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
I’ve been experiencing lots of synchronicity. So perhaps I shouldn’t have been too surprised when, shortly after a conversation on the end of oil, the cities, mass deaths from the coming bird flu etc…
November 10th, 2005 in Metal (Technical) ·
As a change from my usual beginner level tutorials, I decided to explore the effects of Oracle’s purchase of InnoDB in this month’s Database Journal column, entitled Oracle’s purchase of InnoDB, their release of Oracle Express, and the effect on MySQL…
November 9th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
Reading yet another article on the woes of the American car manufacturers, I was struck by how their own short-sightedness and reliance on gas-guzzlers has come back to bite them…