Things started off with a bang in 2008. Rest in Peace, Benazzir Bhutto. Notch up one more for the forces of evil. Kenya is burning after Kibaki cooked the election, oil tops a hundred bucks a barrel, but at least scientists determine that apes do really laugh. Crimes of the new year of our Lord in our good old aRg of eSsAy maintained high quality levels. The Tanzanian ambassador also tasted some home-grown house robbery - think of him in the ICU. Ja-nee vrinne, ko's hoop ons gaan elke dag lag in twintig-ag. Die alternatief is, soos Oom Bal- thasar destyds gesê het, "are too ghstly to contemplate". Groete op die Twiere Nieweja, ek was vandag in die gedruis om Klopse te kyk, maar nie geduld genoeg gehad om te wag vir die troepe nie. mens, maar ons vlakte anties is wel gespek. Nou ja, weg is ek. Pos vroeg, pos gereeld. As jy nie gaan pos nie, maak jy ons verveeld. Pos beter, pos wyer, pos hoender en eier.

And we're back, sorry for the delay. We've reopened the Time Capsule of ancient, but virtually unused blog posts, dusted the virtual electron dust off it and will further and deeply continue examination of its contents. Four years, can you believe it, have elapsed since the posts in January 2003. How time flies. What a great sport participatory procrastination is! But wait! There's more, as they say in the knife ads. Grab on to your eyeballs, sit still and hold on -- we're off on a journey that will blog the living excrement out of the Internet, right under your nose, starting right at home, here in Cape Town, right now, this moment. Firstly, let's liberate some images from their camerae obscurae... The top of the mountain, ordinary tuesday. From mid-town, up in Bree Street, it looked like this at five to five. You can clearly see the three towers on the Vredehoek side of town. Yuk.

ISS location tracker

Now if The 3D Printer isn't the most exciting piece of equipment ever thought out, I'd like to know what is.

And I'm ordering a surfboard like this: Tattoo Heaven surfboard designs

If I ever need a calendar again, the following is the link.

Today Date and Time

Today in History - Historical Events on this Day in History

Bleah. Second time on the blog and VBScript error bites already. Eeew... Anyway, this day in history, Jan 8 will be remebered for George Bush Sr falling ill and vomiting on a Japanese prime minister. Go check The PBS site if you don't believe me... and by the time it finally was posted the tempis fugitted and we were already in thursday 9 Jan... 8 Jan in SA history finds the formation of the ANC in 1908, and the English takeover of the Cape in 1806. Further afield, the Vikings stormed Lindisfarne on that day in 794. And yes, on this day the first computer was patented by Hollerith. This is also the birthday of Elvis in 1935, David Bowie in 1947, Robbie Krieger and Shirley Bassey. Thanks, ladies & gents.

This is the beginning of the diary I should have started in 1996. Better late than never, I hope. I intend (and know the road to hell is paved wif good intenshuns) to collect and collate those jewels of knowledge from the mountains of chaff we have to filter daily. Like the Hopi indian, the quest is to find the meaning of things. Today, the first working monday of the new year, fresh with the sounds and smells of yellow refuse trucks and weekend garbage, this blog is now officially declared open for business, right as rain and a for away! Tempis fugit!