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Likely but not imminent?

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

The British Home Secretary, Alan Johnson announced Britain had raised its terror threat level from substantial to severe, suggesting that an attack is “highly likely.” He goes on to state: “This means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but I should stress that there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent.” [...]

The Old Computer Dot Com

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Came across this website in my search for old computer games, gaming info, emulators and other resources. Truly the most complete I have seen, well laid out and very informative. The Old Computer Dot Com is dedicated to all aspects of retro computing, collecting and gaming. You will find emulators and Roms for many weird [...]

Edcon CON

Monday, January 25th, 2010

About 3 years ago, I bought a breadmachine from Boardmans in Menlyn. Last year in November, the pan section broke and I visited the branch on a Saturday to obtain a replacement part. On the surface the staff were very efficient. They promised to phone me back on Monday, with availability and price information. On [...]

Simply Slim: safe or not?

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

You are all taking a chance with you health and you life. Take a look at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bitter-orange/AN01218 With bitter orange, you may develop migraines, fainting, and potentially deadly stroke and heart attack. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/bitterorange/ Many herbal weight-loss products now use concentrated extracts of bitter orange peel in place of ephedra. However, bitter orange contains the chemical [...]

How to fix 3 WP 2.9 bugs

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

There seems to be some problem with WordPress 2.9′s scheduler function. I have now used the solution as described at Semiologic, and will see if it works.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist Mass Gathering in defence of street photography To the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse (terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers), governments worldwide are now attempting to add a fifth – the photographer. Be informed; a good place to start is The Register: Police snapper silliness reaches new [...]

Message in the salad bowl

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

A response to a recent email I received. The uncommented version is available in a previous post. God puts a sign in the food we eat! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye…and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood [...]

Hackers or incompetency?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The South African Competition Commission has laid criminal charges against “unknown” “hackers” who – allegedly – hacked a censored version of their final report into bank charges in South Africa. Parts of the document containing sensitive information was blacked out. According to Wikileaks, technical methods was used to decrypt and remove redactions from almost all [...]

Crossing the digital divide

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Artist: !no!no!mous Photographer: Marius Loots Camera: Nokia 3110

Living next door to Alice

Monday, June 30th, 2008

In the old days, you lived for 24 years next to Alice, banging on the ceiling, walls, floors and pipes. Now there is facebook…



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