The “other” side of Africa

Found an interesting article on Africa in the Washington Post; The Africa You Never See (dated: 16 April 2005).
Excerpt:
Yes, Africa is a land of wars, poverty and corruption. The situation in places like Darfur, Sudan, desperately cries out for more media attention and international action. But Africa is also a land of stock markets, high [...]

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News from the far side…

Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis.
Emails more damaging than cannabis
Well, I am convinced… hahaha… I am blocking all incoming e-mails from now on, unless the words/phrase “urgent”, “important” and “immediate attention” appears in them.
Tell you [...]

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Random thought while the server was down

Sometimes the world we live in scares the crap out of me. Things around me are changing at such an alarming pace that I sometimes feel I am in a giant washing machine stuck in the rinse cycle. Sweesh… Sweesh…
What’s hot and what’s not… what’s hip… what’s old, what’s new…. what I should have and [...]

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Wasting away

Damn… did I waste away this weekend! I started out wanting to do something new, something fun and exciting other than going to the movies and hanging out with the friends. I ended up doing sweet all. Well, nothing that can be regarded as significant.
Perhaps that is not entirely true as I did try and [...]

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What is that running down the leg of your trouser?

The toilet humour post I did this morning reminded me of a piece of graffiti I once read on the wall high above a urinal, “If you are reading this you are pissing on your leg”. And low and behold… I did… piss on my leg that is, while reading it. Of course there is [...]

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Toilet humour??

This moron should not be allowed to carry a gun!
Officer on toilet accidentlly fires gun
Now if I were him… I would have pretended that nothing happened. I would pat my stomach and pretended that I had farted twice, whispered loudly…. “Gas… last night’s chili bean stew” and made for the door.
By the time they figured [...]

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Eternal madness of the spotless mind

Ok… so this morning’s marketing/technical meeting was a complete washout and if it hadn’t been that I actually had something to report back on, I would preferably have slit my throat and gushed blood all over the MD’s brand new white shirt. Yep, that was one of my psycho fantasies as people made up excuse [...]

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Wednesday’s not-so-big Five

Is televison getting you down? Well, fear not… I have just the thing for you; How To Kill Your TV

Well, say no more, here is a recipe that is guaranteed (well almost) to brighten up anyone’s day, if only for sounding tasty in a weird and wacky sort of way. Rhubarb vodka. Yep… dunno [...]

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Atchoo… I think I am coming down with a growth spurt

Following an unparalleled and inexplicable growth spurt, little Lucy seems to have outgrown her clothes.

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Pope Idol and the art of chimney spotting

With the Cardinals failing to elect a new pope in their first vote in a historic papal conclave, chimney watching/spotting has now become the most eagerly pursued leaisure activity of 2005. Word is out that the Cardinals are preparing for two more tries in a quest to elect a new leader for the Roman Catholic [...]

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