Five random things

The countdown has begun: in a month's time I'm relocating back to Cape Town after two and a half years in London. Bring it on!One great thing about 8mb broadband is that you can download random crap that you usually wouldn't have the time or resources for, which is something I'll have a tough time readjusting to. On the weekend I downloaded a 40mb Conversations with Felicia video clip. Despite her successes as an entrepeneur and being listed as one of South Africa's Greatest 100 (a highly controversial list itself), this (self-proclaimed) African Queen of Talk will never fail to amuse me. The priceless scene in which she meets Larry King is worth the download alone. If you think her lack of any rational thought patterns and vocal expression has anything to do with meeting her idol, you're mistaken. That's just Felicia doing what she does.

I'm regularly asked which blogging tool I use here. It's a custom-built solution that I developed over a number of months, using a LAMP bundle, the 'Open Source Web Platform'. Developing your own blog tool is a good way to build on your PHP experience. If you're interested, this tutorial - Building a Weblog with PHP and MySQL - is a great place to start learning: "written by a curious non-expert who ventured out of the land of programming languages and linguistics into web applications".

Parkour, anyone?

Parkour (rhymes with par four) is the art of movement where participants (known as Traceurs) use objects within their urban surroundings, to move from point "A" to point "B" in a motion that is both fluid and interesting. Whether it's moving over and around boulders on a mountainside, or navigating a particularly intricate Jungle-Jim, the basic philosophy is the same; precision and unwavering confidence.

ZA has it's own parkour community website, complete with blog, events, gallery, forums and other goodies. Dugg!

And fifth, two nice finds over at devart: 'Guitars2', unique illustration style by jin-dadaly, and 'Tower Bridge', a tsunami photo manip by phyzer (check out his gallery for more).