Category Archives: learning curve

QR codes at Stodels

On Sunday morning, I was told in no uncertain terms by my 5 year old son that it was time to plant some more veg in the vegetable patch, so I took the kids down the road to Stodels to buy some seedlings. And it was while we was there that we came across this: Alex [...]

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Cut it yourself

Another post that was featured on facebook yesterday evening, but needs to be popped somewhere less transient for purposes of posterity. I got home last night to discover that while the babysitter had been making the kids’ dinner, Alex had cut his own fringe. He was extremely proud, as you can see from the huge [...]

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Coldplay in Cape Town: transport & event details

This sort of information is always done to death on the local interwebs, but even after numerous big events there still remains a subsection of the stadium-visiting public who reckon they should be able to drive up to the stadium gates, park by the turnstiles and simply pop in – and then get pissed off and [...]

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Germs, disease, infection…

A recent strip from Dilbert that made me smile: Having contracted viruses from both human and electronic sources lately, I know exactly where he’s coming from. It’s worth noting that my electronic immune system worked a whole lot better than my natural one.

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#deathby

Flu. Not “flu”. Not “manflu”. Actual flu. Influenza A virus H1N1. The next time someone tells me that they were off work yesterday because they had “flu”, I’m going to punch them in the face. That is, assuming that I don’t have flu, because if I do, I won’t even be able to lift my [...]

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