Some of you good people may have noticed that I haven't been quite myself these last two weeks. This post serves as an explanation.

WARNING: Some of what follows is pretty personal. If I wasn't OK with it being public it wouldn't be here, but if you're uncomfortable with that kind of thing (or perhaps just don't know me well enough to care) you ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, a certain Jonathan decided it would be a good idea to take the train down the peninsula and have a day of fun and relaxation on the public holiday. Since I live about 150m from the Diep River station, I was the last person to hop on the train as it headed south and the jol 1 was already in full swing. We enjoyed the relaxing trip ( Read more... )

The long-awaited saga of jerith coming to Cape Town!

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Interesting day yesterday ( Read more... )

As people who read this blog no doubt know, I was in Cape Town recently for an interview with Amazon's SA dev centre. The nice people at Amazon were kind enough to fly me down and let me choose the flights. This worked out very nicely, as it meant they didn't have to handle any of the logistics and I could fly down on Saturday for a weekend with ( Read more... )

Yesterday I attended the first tuXlab installation in KZN. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while, but they've all been happening in the Cape.

The story actually starts quite some time ago when the school in question asked the Gift of the Givers Foundation for some sponsorship for a computer room. GotG haven't had much experience ( Read more... )

A very interesting, if tiring day on the movie set yesterday. We were filming "Krakatoa", a BBC docu-drama thingy.

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So, there's a BBC thing about Krakatoa being filmed in Durban and they want a 19th century brass band. A friend of mine who is also a trombonist was running around looking for people who qualified to do it. The pay is R500 for a day of filming, starting at 05h00 tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

This morning I ended up spending a couple of hours at a local hospital. The story begins at about 03h00 with me blissfully asleep. Our domestic worker (whom I shall call Maid Marion) woke my parents complaining of severe pain. They took her to a nearby low-cost private hospital -- not as good as Netcare, but affordable and much better than the ( Read more... )

So, as some of you know, I've spent the weekend (and part of Friday and half of Monday) in Cape Town (which is where I'm writing this). The main reason for coming down was my cousin's Bar Mitzvah. This, for technical reasons that I don't really understand, took place on Sunday, rather than the usual Saturday ( Read more... )