On the drive home from a week­end in Pringle, we were treated with the bril­liant spec­tacle of a mother whale and her calf jump­ing and frol­ick­ing in the waters of False Bay. All this was much to the enjoy­ment of ourselves and a couple of hun­dred other folk that had got­ten out of their cars […]

I’ve always used this site as the test­ing ground for new tech­niques I learn on my treks around the inter­nets — usu­ally they tend to feel like they’re just tacked onto the site, simply for the bene­fit of using them. Which obvi­ously it is. These aspects tend to be removed fairly quickly after their novelty […]

Anyone that is a Star Wars fan is a fan of the AT-ATs. This is a mutu­ally exclus­ive fact. The inter­net is replete with AT-AT/dog memes, and it’s always a suc­cess­ful mash-up — but this video has got to be one of the slick­est and cutest of the bunch.

In the last few days since the FIFA World Cup com­menced, the vuvuzela has rap­idly become one of the most dis­cussed aspects of the entire tour­na­ment. In Britain, the BBC has been forced to com­ment on broad­cast­ing vuvuzela-free cov­er­age, because of the sheer num­ber com­plaints made. Those 545 people really need to get lives.

You have a to-do list the length of the Great Wall — people are phoning and email­ing you with yet more “little favours to ask”. You can’t cope — you need a break. So allow me to help…

Part 2 of The Great Cape Argus Bicycle Escapade; now the train­ing is over and it’s time for the main event. Will our brave lad be able to fin­ish this mon­ster course? Or will the fact he’s never cycled this far before smash his hopes to peices?

It’s 11am on a warm and windy Sunday morn­ing on the 13^th of March. I and seem­ingly half of South Africa have decided to enter or to come out and sup­port the Cape Argus cycle tour. My trusty bicycle and I have been hanging around the centre of Cape Town since 9 this morn­ing, wait­ing anxiously for our group to be summoned to the start­ing line.

Last night I couldn’t sleep. No big thing, it’s some­thing I’ve always had; the brain just tends to be a little over­act­ive at 3am. I’ve always dealt with it in dif­fer­ent ways, all with vary­ing degrees of suc­cess. last night how­ever, I real­ised that I’ve never actu­ally tried that old staple of sleep­less­ness cures, counting sheep.

Get to know me for more than 2 minutes and you’ll prob­ably start to get the impres­sion that I like to laugh. A minute later you’ll real­ise that I tend to laugh a lot at really stu­pid things. Another minute, you’ll prob­ably be want­ing me to shut the hell up — but let’s not concentrate […]

We all know how much Internet Explorer 6 blows. Developers have ran­ted on about it’s inad­equa­cies for years now. If you’re not a web dev, but maybe know someone that is, chances are that you’ve been on the receiv­ing end of a sur­rog­ate rant about it at some point. Today, how­ever, Google might have done […]