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President Obama is coming. What should be just another day in our lives is turning into a big production number. Even my gym is getting in on it, in that I now need to have positive picture ID when visiting the gym. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Obama-heads-to-Africa-amid-Mandela-gloom-20130626 Obama heads to Africa amid Mandela gloom (via @News24)

        It’s Saturday night. Around 07:00pm the power went out. There was these ominous sounds that accompanied it. At first we thought that it was just he local sub-station that had been overloaded again. Politicians and their promises of free electricity to the poor masses has a tendency to over extend infrastructure, so we have gotten used to this. But, after a few minutes of the unnatural silence, we could here the deep basso resonance of the diesel generators at the platinum refinery a couple of minutes from our house. This immediately dispelled the notion that it was a local power outage. You see, the refinery is powered directly from the national power grid and doesn’t rely on the local government infrastructure. As such, the power should be restored quickly as well, if the power distribution lines to this area had not been damaged.         About six months ago another power outage occurred whilst I w...

Testing the blogger iPhone app. Now when I'm furiously typing away on my phone everyone will wonder what my SMS bill is. But, unfortunately, I will also be subjecting the world to all the crazy, sometimes silly, mostly musings in these posts. I will be writing about everything and anything. Luckily, living in South Africa gives me regularly heaps of things to digest, especially with ANC rule. They are probably the one party which proves, that when a mike is shoved in your face, silence us the better answer. Unfortunately, they tend to take some time off and then come back with a well researched and considered,... well we would still prefer them to shut up because they are embarrassing everyone. I wanted to call their response an 'opinion', but some how that implies thinking about the problem and not just rewording the problem and blaming someone else. Eish.

This is my blog,... where I will, yeah, write about all the stuff that floats between my left ear and the right. Sometimes gets tagled up in the optic nerves and swings round the baser brain functions. In short, all the crap I think about, wonder about, like, dislike, read, write, and generally just let verment between the neurons... I'll write about my favourite books, favourite films (the infrequent ones I see) - shocking actually how few and far between they are. There won't be much reference to TV since, in South Africa, the so called underpriveleged now run the national broadcaster, promoting the dictatorship that is the government and trying very heard to plaster a veneer of civility on it all. Yeah, there is not much to watch on our public broadcaster. Discrimination is still the pinnacle of the broadcast... african languages are used without sub-titles, whilst the least bit of Afrikaans is used them there are sub-titles. Getting the idea that they are just.... Well ...