Johnnic launches reporter.co.za

I see that Johnnic is launching what could be described as a blogging site, reporter.co.za



Space running out on the Million Dollar Homepage

There are only 63300 pixels available on the Million Dollar Homepage.

If you’ve never heard of it, in brief, a student made a website offering 1 million pixels for sale, at US$1 each…



Anti-Americanism

One of the enjoyable things about Cape Town this time of the year is that it’s packed with visitors. For residents of Kalk Bay trying to get home, or somebody dashing to the Waterfront late for a movie, and circling for hours trying to find parking, this may not be a good thing…



George Monbiot site unavailable

George Monbiot’s site has been unavailable for about a day now…



Table Mountain Fire Pics

The fire is still raging out of control, but looks like the Cable Station, with a little help from the wind, will make it…



Table Mountain on fire

Right now Table Mountain is ablaze, the fires completely out of control. The cable station has been closed most of the morning, and is right in the firing line…



Linux World Interview

A while back LinuxWorld interviewed me about the MySQL certification process I undertook at IOL



Scorpio rising

Woke up this morning to the most harrowing screams from my son. We couldn’t figure out what was wrong until we saw this on him.

Scorpion stings can be quite serious, so he was promptly rushed off to the hospital…



reddit and digg – first impressions

Thanks to Walton’s mention, I’ve been spending quite a bit of the weekend looking at reddit, and comparing it to digg



Cape Town burning

It’s fire season, and the arsonists and smokers are out in force. The mountains around Cape Town are experiencing multiple fires every day now. There’ve been days of smoke, but today, from my window, I can see a fire raging on the slopes of Signal Hill. Pity my camera is so crap (or is that my photographic ability).