Sucker punch

I have to post something, because I do not want to see the SA Blog Awards logo from the previous post. Every time I visit the page, it seems to jump out at me from the monitor and shouts, “Boo!”. Unnerving…
Someone told me a yawner today. A yawner is what I call a joke that [...]

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Awards Season!

Voting opened yesterday in the 2nd Annual SA Blog Awards.
All of my favourites have been nominated; Somenoone, Ekapa, Terri’s Web Stuff, Tenmiles, Aquila online, Reluctant Nomad, Kyknoord, IITQ, Gabbahead, Gosu, Big Ric, Jo’blog, Splattermail, and many, many more. I urge you all (bloggers and visitors, alike) to take part and cast your votes in this [...]

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A year of Riding The Slipstream

It has been a year since ChittyChittyBangBang (not the car!) first appeared on the blog scene and commenced with riding The Slipstream. 208 posts later, and he is still nowhere close to being any good at it.
He started out rather tentatively (and lamely?) when he announced to the world on 22 February 2005, that he [...]

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Here today, and gone tomorrow?

How does one say good-bye in cyberspace?
In the past few weeks I have noticed that a number of my favourite South African (and international) blogs have simply disappeared. In truth, I only noticed this when I started trawling the web for nominations for The 2nd South African Blog Awards. The blogs did not exactly disappear, [...]

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Any flavour you like…

My regular post for today vanished! POOF! I hit the publish post button and the entire post went to the netherworld. The recover post function could not get it back, and now I have nothing.
You’ve got to love technology… always full of surprises.
I’m too lazy to shift back into a serious mood, so I’ll fill [...]

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Conversations with the girlfriend

I lost out to the girlfriend again last night… well, perhaps not entirely, but to some degree I think I did. Here’s how it went down…
SHE: Do you believe that a man and a woman can ever be “just friends?”
[Almost immediately the “proceed-with-extreme-caution” alarm in my head went off and I eyed her with suspicion. [...]

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The week that was

So what have I been doing the past week?
Well.
I wish I could say I spent the week in a posh hotel while soaking up the sun on a tropical beach. Unfortunately, I am not that blessed.
Every so often, I am exposed to the ugly side of my job. Either through my colleagues, my own stupidity [...]

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Miscellaneous bits and pieces

It is Friday and I’ve got the end-of-summer lurgies. Miserable and sick and at home courtesy of the two (maybe more) weeks of rain and thunderstorms we had in Johannesburg. I tried one of those 24-hour cold and flu cures. The name already tells you it may not work, since there is no cure for [...]

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