Tri-band

Unos.
A month ago I was up at Nekkies Holiday Resort just outside Worcester – about an hour and a half drive from Cape Town – to watch my all-time favourite South African band play their final gig.

Despite them being my sole reason for attending, and sound-engineering issues aside, Lark’s performance lacked the energy, enthusiasm and passion … view full post

I’m melting!

It’s so hot (humid) in London today. [view the source of that page - server-side comments, ppl!]. So hot that the water in a glass I’ve refilled countless times already, evaporates faster than I can drink it. My packet of Malteasers melted into a chocolate/honeycomb hybrid … view full post

Of late…

By now you’re hopefully aware of the G8 REBOOT initiative.

To be honest, I was a little sceptical when fellow saffer Gareth e-mailed me with his ideas for the reboot, given the time … view full post

No display

My notebook of 2 years decided yesterday, without any prior warnings, that it’s display was working too well. So it threw in some random ascii characters and blocks of cyan & magenta on startup, and in Windows it… well, hard to explain. It’s unusable. Needless to say, I’m now feeling quite lost without my address book, calendar, … view full post

Up The Creek Music Festival

What a kief weekend! The annual Savanna Up The Creek Music Festival was awesome – featuring some of SA’s best rock acts of today. I only wish I wasn’t so tired the whole time, having not slept on my 11hr flight, and then only for a couple hours on Thursday night. And then … view full post

Scotland: a lowdown

Scotland was excellent! I didn’t get the t-shirt (I had a particular design in mind, incorporating the Lion Rampant, but couldn’t find anything), but did just about everything else thanks to the good weather for most of the time. The Jojo bus was an easy way to get around – I jumped … view full post

Blog Mesh

A number of random updates, observations and congratulations.

Firstly, a round of applause for my sister J who completed the Knysna Forest Marathon (21km) on Saturday. Well done sis! If I’m still running regularly this time next year maybe we can do it together – ok, stop laughing already. I designed … view full post

14th annual Splashy Fen Music Festival

If you start to notice a brief period of inactivity on this site, it’s because this afternoon I am heading off into the very cold Underberg region of the Drakensberg for 10 days – “a 200-kilometre-long mountainous wonderland and world heritage … view full post

Splashy Fen 2003

Splashy Fen 2003 here we come! 23 days and counting…. :)