I was that annoyingly loud drunk tosser on the bus

I woke up this morning, well, Sunday morning, with a raging headache and half-ingested chips (crisps) in the back of my mouth. Charming, I know. And enough memories to realise that I was that annoyingly loud drunk tosser on the bus home that every sober person hates.

Saturday night was BIG - we tore up The Swan to say farewell to Esterche who returned Southside yesterday after a seasonal visit. Some of the 135 photos I took are up at Flickr. in a new "Life" set which I'll be renaming as soon as I come up with something more creative. UPDATE: I lomoized them... 'cos I can. Dig!

I spent the rest of the day in front of my notebook, until now - almost 24 hours later - moving once to buy some dinner. It started out having the biggest laugh with Warrenski over our first webdesign attempts in 1996 (that's an entirely separate blog). And then rediscovering the brilliant political cartoon humour of Cape Town-born Zapiro. Someone has kindly archived all of his Bush-related strips, "from ignominious start to ignoble present". Alternatively, you can view his latest cartoons over at the M&G website. If you're visiting from outside South Africa, you need to be a KuduClub member to view the daily cartoon and full archive, sadly - but that's the best part.

You see, the KuduClub is a subscription-based, online premium service for expatriates. Or in other words, a big time-wasting, money-making scheme. I've mentioned it before. It's also a division of Xpatrinet Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers Ltd. I've mentioned them before. And it's powered by none other than Entriq. I've mentioned them before too: they're also responsible for M-Net On Demand, which I reviewed in depth - an entertaining read if I can say so myself.

So where I'm going with all of this, is simply: disable JavaScript in your web browser, which is really easy to do. Thanks to this past advice from one of my readers pointing out the shockingly poor client-side security of this whole KuduClub/Xpatrinet/Naspers/Entriq venture, expats and other international visitors can bypass all ugly log in screens and save US$9.95 per month!

Back to my day. It became one of those rare occasions where I'd visit one site, jump to another remotely-related site from there, and continue on that path for hours until I had 5 browser windows open, each with 5 tabs, all the while generating ideas, adding to my bookmarks, downloading hordes of completely unrelated files, and updating my projects page. Which I should announce has finally seen the light of day. It's still a fraction of the size of it's mirror in my mind. Not to mention this 5am blogging marathon which I've apparently undertaken.