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Leave! Yay!
Hello y'all.Now that I am on leave you should expect to see a lot more of me here. So, I've only been on leave for three days and counting but it is not as fun as I expected it would be. Being at home has prompted my mother to make me the maid and my mornings have been starting with me cleaning the house, making breakfast, having some breakfast ....
Microsoft speaks out on 360 instrument compatibility
Hot on the heels of Sony announcing that all instruments for the PS3 versions of three upcoming music games (Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Revolution) will be compatible, Microsoft has announced that all instruments for upcoming Xbox 360 rhythm games will be compatible too.In a post on the Gamerscoreblog, Microsoft stated “All the instruments from Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution will ....
Taking A Leaf...
Out Of Ruby’s book that is, and writing a letter.Dear Mr Workshop ManagerWhen I delivered my car to Hi-Q your establishment this morning, you came to greet me and ask how you could help. When I told you I thought my brakes may need replacing, you asked why I thought so. I described to you how my car is behaving WHEN I BRAKE and you immediately said no, you ....
debunking Jerome ‘Bigot’ Corsi’s Smear Attack Book: ‘The
Chapter 2: Factual Inaccuracies In Corsi’s BookCorsi’s book is rife with inaccuracies. He claims to have 700 footnotes and yet he gets some of the most basic facts about Barack Obama wrong—like the year the Obamas were married. Corsi writes throughout his book that Obama has refused to acknowledge details about his life, but a quick search through Obama’s two thorough books shows that, despite Corsi’s claims, Obama does ....
Nerf N-Strike gun revealed
Last year EA announced that it would be developing various Hasbro games for consoles. Nerf N-Strike was one of those games, and caught gamers’ attention because it also happened to be the first NERF blaster action game.The Wii game features a new custom NERF blaster that allows players to fire actual NERF darts with the controller outside the game (three foam darts are bundled with the blaster). If you want ....
CIS Toastmasters 35th birthday party invitation
Dear Toastmasters and Guests You are officially invited to our clubs 35th birthday party! Please join us for snacks and cake at our next meeting on Tuesday, 26 August, where well also be having our humorous competition. So bring your humour, giggles and party spirit to Old Eds next week - we look forward to celebrating and chuckling with you. Hee hee! Any questions? Call me, Eunice Faiga, from ....
Duty calls for CONCACAF exiles
Wednesday's CONCACAF qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA*World Cup*will see a host of the region's overseas-based stars in action. More... ....
Glitter Could Face A Bangkok Jail
Ex-glam rocker Gary Glitter could be placed in dire conditions in a Bangkok jail if he continues to refuse to leave Thailand. More... ....
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit Review (Xbox 360)
The latest entry to the series of, essentially, 2D fighting games based on the Dragon Ball Z license, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, really wants to impress you from the get-go. Burst Limit opens with an energetic, explosive cinematic, supported by hyped-up music in the traditional style of a DBZ television episode. This opening reveals the characters, as well as playing on fans emotions by showing some of the key ....
Symbols and dreams and the life within
It’s no secret that my mother and I had a poor relationship…toxic, in fact. But I spent five years in therapy and she has been dead for at least ten years now, so you’d think it would be over, right? At least I thought it was over. But last night I had a disturbing dream and this morning I am struggling to puzzle it out.Some facts from my childhood that ....
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Phelps is about to be Mr. Rich
Life is about to change for the 23 year old, and one wonders whether he will want to put in more hard work for another 4 years. Would you? clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com"Companies that become sports sponsors, whether of athletes, teams or events, want to associate with greatness," he said. "We love good stories, and Michael Phelps is one of the best, so he is a natural attraction ....
Are battery powered cars the answer?
NVDL: I would say it is worth a try, but the short answer is: "battery power is only part of the answer, and it's not nearly the final answer." I am not sure if the technology exists to make the sort of batteries we have for mobile phones and notebooks on the sort of scale and for the sort of energy consumption driving involves. My gut ....
fish & clips
1)I found so much of my 90s Techno Fabulous stuff on YouTube yesterday. This is all very lovely and everything, and it's done it's best, but I can only listen to these songs online innit? And I can't write videos into MP3s can I.As a result, I have 5 browsers open on my computer and am madly shuffling between each song so it's a sort of Million Pages ....
Audi RS6 Avant - ABT Got Their Hands on it
Like the RS6 Avant wouldnt be enough, the guys at ABT managed to get their hands on it and of course, improve it. How to improve it? Make it faster and voila. So they built a lower suspension, 20-inches wheels, a different styled front spoiler or the wing that reduces the lift. Thanks to the V10 TFSI lab experiment engine that outputs 700 bhp and 800Nm (standards ....
I have seen the future
This last weekend I got to see Wall-E. Id been wanting to see it for sometime now as Id heard from numerous friends that the CGI animation was absolutely fantastic. See Im a huge fan of animated movies, I love all the Pixar productions - Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, as well as other animated films like Ice Age and Shrek. What I find amazing is how animation ....
Cars and Phones - Ergo!
Imagine powering up cars the same way we recharge our phones - at outlets everywhere.It's an ambitious plan that will work...sort of. The plan forgets one thing. The energy involved in retrofitting the world's auto-industry, and regridding the current garage infratructure. That said, it's one of the better ideas I've seen. clipped from www.wired.comThe problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to ....
$2.9 Million for the First Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Roadster
No, well probably never afford to buy a Bugatti Veyron but at least we can read about it on Car Blog, right? Okay, heres the deal. Apparently the first Grand Sport Roadster version, which is actually a street-legal beast, is going to be sold for $2.9 million. Those are American dollars, indeed, which makes it one of the most expensive cars on Earth, with the most powerful and ....
Rock Band 2 and GH: World Tour instruments harmonious
On the US PlayStation blog, Michael Shorrock, PR Director at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has announced that all of the upcoming music-based games for the PS3 will be compatible with each other, hardware-wise.Not only will Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour's instruments work with the software of the other, Singstar's microphones will also be supported by World Tour and Rock Band 2. The instruments in Konami's future ....
Another great endorsement for Drupal
I've just posted this to Drupal.org - it's another great endorsement for my favourite open source project. The M.I.T. Technology Review has published their annual list of 35 young innovators under the age of 35. The name that jumped out of the page at me was of course Drupal's very own founder, Dries Buytaert: The Internet has made publishing on a global scale almost effortless. That's the rhetoric, anyway. ....
on the CEFR & YouTube generation
What you see here is the first page of a brand new textbook for 12-year-old German kids who want to learn Spanish (as a foreign language). It starts with a listening comprehension unit and provides relatively short exercises throughout the whole textbook. Nothing really new so far, but with the difference that most pages come within a teen magazine style. And thats exactly the trend today: providing ....
Entertainment blog posts
Taking A Leaf...
Out Of Ruby’s book that is, and writing a letter.Dear Mr Workshop ManagerWhen I delivered my car to Hi-Q your establishment this morning, you came to greet me and ask how you could help. When I told you I thought my brakes may need replacing, you asked why I thought so. I described to you how my car is behaving WHEN I BRAKE and you immediately said no, you ....
Skate 2 – The Controls
Skate was the first skateboarding title I had picked up and not got bored of instantly for quite some time. Unfortunately I was forced to give mine away and so I never managed to finish the game but for the few hours I played it I have to say it was hugely entertaining. So when it was mentioned that Skate 2 was coming and that I would ....
The ultimate news team
This morning we were joined by the senior news team of The Mercury. They came to see how us rock stars of the media spend our mornings. At one stage I was surrounded by some of the most widely respected members of the SA media. Each one of them a highly experienced journalist. Cool. From left to right: [...] ....
From the desk of the Traffic Guy
The Traffic Guy asked me to post a picture of him on the BBBlog for his fans. He said theyre always asking for pictures of him in action. We tried taking a picture of him screaming at Durban Metro Control Room, but his publicist said we cant use it. So, for his fans, here he is - on-air [...] ....
Just Call Me "Annie Oakley"!!!
Yesterday, at work, we did a team- and confidence-building exercise thats s'posed to become a monthly instalment in our work lives.Shooting, with hand guns, at an indoor shooting range!It was fargin AWESOME!!!It was unbelievably loud and my feet hurt like a mother-trucker, but it was a total JOL!!!I have never fired more than a pellet gun, so I at least knew how to use the sights... but an actual ....
Slipknot and Satan: Inspiring high School Murders??
I wasn't originally going to write about this as I don't truly believe the story has a place on this blog, don't ask why I changed my mind. I have no idea. I just did. On Monday Morning a matric student at Krugersdorp High School killed a younger, Grade 9 student, with, of all things, a Katana, I believe. It's incredibly amusing that, in the light of this ....
Wednesday, 20th August 2008
HowzitForeign currency mid-rates updated...-o00o-Given that Mwanawasa's death was reported erroneously some months ago - and then neither BBC nor Sky News picked up on the story, I did wonder to myself if the story was another bluff (although just why someone would want to announce a death incorrectly beats me....).But I do believe that Mwanawasa has passed away. A sad day for Zambians."Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa's death has dealt ....
After the fire
Ok now it passed more than 12 hours in Cairo and some are saying in the news that there is still smoke coming from the Shura Council , my mom opened "Good morning Egypt" earlier and found out that the fire fighters were doing their job all night long , some of them were transferred to the hospital. Strangely all the Morning news shows are acting as if nothing happened ....
South African related facts
I have posted a few fact-focused posts on SA Rocks before. But heres another one that I was sent by a reader. Enjoy: Economy The rand was the best performing currency against the US Dollar between 2002 and 2005 (Bloomberg Currency Scoreboard) South Africa has 48,000 high net-wealth individuals holding at least US$1million in financial assets (World Wealth [...] ....
If you don’t like Too Human you’re dumb
Okay he didn’t put it in those words but the infamous Denis Dyack had once again opened his mouth and let crap fall out. When speaking to OXM he mentioned “What were also seeing is for the people who dont like it, generally just dont get it. And its because weve created something so innovative and different. Its ironic, it just shows that human nature of if you ....
