DLS Lime Beatle

Check out Per Soder's DLS Lime Beatle. The time and the patience ...

Financial Mail - QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Reserve Bank governor TITO MBOWENI, at a breakfast meeting in Johannesburg last week

Breathing Earth

Very Cool - Breathing Earth

Kid hijacked: Mom held for hoax

Kid hijacked: Mom held for hoax - Well there I was on my way to the shop to grab some lunch for the family, and I here this news bulletin that a six year old girl has been hijacked, the news report went on to explain that the mother was driving when hijacked, she managed to get away but her daughter was left in the car as the hijackers fled. They even had the family on the broadcast, pleading for everyone to lookout for the car.

I must say, I thought they didn't sound too frantic. Upon arriving home I was going to tell my wife, but thought rather not seeing as we have a 3 month old daughter, this would only upset her.

I get to work this morning only to see this news post that the whole thing was a hoax, how can people do that? Well I am happy that I didn't perpetuate the lie and spread the news.

Gautrain Trees to be saved

Well here is a spot of good news for a Monday morning - Hundreds of trees destined to be chopped down to make way for the multi-billion rand Gautrain have been saved from the axe.

In the traffic one morning

WTH. Seems like the problem with hijackers "posing" as police is quite a problem for this bunch.

CIA - The World Factbook

Very Interesting info, worth a look

New additions

This is the new addition to my family, Tamzin Jade is 4 weeks old, and I am totally in love with her.


This is Baxter a new addition for my Dad, he is 10 weeks old.

Advanced Guides: Unattended Windows 2000/XP Installations - PCStats.com

Every now and then there comes along a computer or server that needs Windows installed with a specific blend of drivers and settings. Running through one installation isn't too bad, but what if there are a dozen or even more computers to get through? It's times like this that having your own customized Windows installation can be a time saver, and life saver.

Advanced Guides: Unattended Windows 2000/XP Installations - PCStats.com

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD - HelpWithWindows.com

Slipstreaming a Service Pack, is the process to integrate the Service Pack into the installation so that with every new installation the Operating System and Service Pack are installed at the same time.

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD - HelpWithWindows.com

Top 10 most stressful professions; work stresses and colleague irritations

A new survey of over 3 000 people in the United Kingdom - conducted on behalf of online learning provider, SkillSoft - reveals which professions are the most stressful and what things lead people to feeling stressed at work. Link

Come on Mr President !!

When you read that we are just waiting for this bill to be passed, one must wonder what would the hold up be? The SNO is several years late, could this bill not have been ratified in the mean time. Surely this is something that could have been done as a blanket rule for all incumbent competition to Telkom.

It just seems to me that it's being made a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be, Why? Its probably all to do with who gets rich from us poor consumers.

Let the "Competition" begin

Cheaper telecoms on the way : Moneyweb

A SNO-ball's chance in hell

Lets hope that this happens, it will give the SNO the necessary quantity but low income they requier, to fund the more expensive outlays they need to make to counter Telkom.
A SNO-ball's chance in hell : Mail & Guardian Online

Linux for old computers

StoneLion on Linux.com has a good article on putting Linux on that aging PC you might have collecting dust, he writes - "I took six distributions for a test run on an old machine, and also tried software that turns old hardware into a thin client. The bottom line: Linux is still quite suitable for older hardware. It might not turn your aging PC into a powerhouse, but it will extend its lifespan considerably" Link

Current Read

Mind the Gap was really a good read, Graham referred to "The Seven day Weekend" in his book quite a bit, so I decided to read that next. I am only a few chapters in, but already intrigued by Ricardo's life strategy, its well worth reading.

What would you do with Gautrans R13BN?

TO put the cost of the new Gautrain development into perspective, Singh and Associates Strategic Solutions has come up with a few suggestions on what could be done with the R13bn extra the development will now cost (as opposed to the initially expected R7bn).

• Instead of a train you could buy some top of the range S-class Mercedes Benz and park them nose to tail to form a "train" that would be long enough to go around the world.
• Since most South Africans use minibus taxis instead of S-Class Mercedes Benz, you could run a fleet of taxis, free of charge to commuters, from Johannesburg to Pretoria with a taxi leaving each town every two minutes, maintain them at the AA rate of R2.50 per km, replace all the taxis every month and you would only run out of money after 50 years.
• You could add 44 more lanes to the M1 highway.
• If you prefer to walk, a good bricklayer, if he made little brick tiles using stacks of 30 R100 notes, could lay a blue paved walkway, 1m wide from Johannesburg to Pretoria. We would have R400 000 left over to pay the bricklayer for his work, which should only take half as long to finish as the Gautrain.
• Or if you want smart people to figure this out you could pay for a university degree for every single 19 year old Gauteng resident and ask them what to do with the money.

Source: Singh & Associates Strategic Solutions

Gautrain

An interesting article about the Gautrain

Well done to Grinder of Cogs, a good blog post

Grind your Cogs: IBurst a vein - In the beginning there was a monopoly

Dodgy tenants days numbered

FIN24 : Dodgy tenants' days numbered - this is a welcome relief

Stanford takes first in DARPA Grand Challenge

I have been a keen follower of the DARPA Grand Challenge. Here are the links to a couple of the sites I enjoyed. Stanford Racing