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Bitter-sweet
The (5) Musketeers came first out of seven teams at the Quiz last night. Sweet. The quiz master Glynn passed away yesterday afternoon. Bitter. -
Towel Day and Wear Green Day.
Friday was Towel Day, a day in which fans of Douglas Adams are encouraged to carry a towel in some conspicuous way, for example, slung over the shoulder. I'm a big fan of DNA, as Douglas is affectionately known, but it's difficult to walk around in public with a towel. People look at you. Strangely. And you have to explain why you're carry ( Read more... ) -
Durban name changes
Proposed name changes in Durban has caused quite a furore recently. I can personally not remember when they asked for name change proposals. I doubt I would have had any, and for that matter, I'm sure many people probably wouldn't have come up with suggestions either. However, the political parties have taken the opportunity and now most of the ( Read more... ) -
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Weekend / Semajnfino
I had a lot going on this weekend. On Saturday I had the usual morning rehearsal with the wind band. Then I went to the Botanic Gardens to meet local Esperantists. It's worth supporting the tea room at the gardens for two reasons: firstly, the scones are very good, and secondly, the lady serving is quite amusing: she seems to be a bit ( Read more... ) -
Cool music
I recently found two songs which are quite interesting. The first is "Elf" by Gabby La La which can be downloaded from this Neil Gaiman blog post. Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors, in case you didn't know. I'll gladly accept his books, short stories, graphic novels or anything related as gifts ( Read more... ) -
Ask the crowd - Demandu la legantaron
For a long time now I've been wanting to write an application for my Nokia N70 using Python, but I couldn't think of anything useful. Rejoice, for I have decided. I'm going to write a music player - something that will let me listen to my oggs with a decent playlist builder. I've been using OggPlay until now, because that's the only app I can ( Read more... ) -
The Drupal Song!
Not quite as catchy as the Llama Song, but I like it nonetheless ( Read more... ) -
Google impresses once again
Google has the amazing ability to capitalise on the whimsical. This morning, the first of the new month, as I logged in to gmail, I noticed a blurb for Gmail Paper on the login page. The Gmail Paper service will, at the click of a button, print out our entire mailbox and ship it to you in a box withing 2-4 business days. Free of charge. The way ( Read more... ) -
We are the champions (almost)
About a month ago I started taking part in a weekly pub quiz on a regular basis at Tapas in Hillcrest. Before the quiz, our team had supper at the neighbouring Bangkok Wok. I had the massaman curry, which is a muslim/Indian influenced curry. I'm happy I tried it, because now I'm fairly sure that's what we were served at the Silom Village Inn in ( Read more... )