Author: Paul

Well, I finally got around to visiting the Technorati beta site and it is quite a change from the original site.  I don’t use Technorati all that much unless I am looking for some info in the blogosphere about something not covered by the blogs I tend to frequent.  That being said I may start…

I haven’t really been following Michael Jackson’s trial and it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that he has been acquitted.  Besides the fact that if you have enough money you could probably run circles around the prosecution where faced with a jury, I actually had a dream before the trial began and I…

Roughly two weeks after Judge Squires of the Durban High Court found Shabir Shaik guilty of corruption and, by implication, found our Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, a party to a corrupt relationship (the full judgment is here), President Thabo Mbeki has announced his decision to "release" Zuma from his obligations as Deputy President and member…

  Don’t forget Father’s Day this weekend! This board was in the shop window of a Pringle store. Nice one!

I had a meeting this morning that I thought would go very differently and, instead, it seemed to shift the flow of my plans for the next couple months in a different direction.  Funny how things happen sometimes.  You develop an expectation that X happen and along the way the prospect of X happening goes…

You probably already know about the Yahoo! 360 beta.  I have started playing around with it after Jeremy Wright was kind enough to send me an invite a while ago.  As you can see from the blog that it isn’t anything too fancy and your customisation options are pretty limited.  You can’t, for example, edit…

There are many wonderful, strange and downright "that’s-not-right" expressions of human, animal and vegetable sexuality on the Web.  Boing Boing introduced me to yet another form of expression involving action figures, specifically Saint Seiya action figures.  What is Saint Seiya?  Wikipedia has the following explanation: Saint Seiya (???????), also known as Knights of the Zodiac,…

If, like me, you have been reading Michael Hanscom’s blog, eclecticism, since you first became aware that things called ‘blogs’ even existed, you may have noticed that it has been taking a little longer than usual to access the blog.  You will be pleased to know that Michael has moved his blog over to Rain…