Author: Paul

Well, he is at it again.  King Mswati of Swaziland has just bought ten BMWs for his wives at a cost his poverty stricken nation can hardly afford.  IOL reported on this yesterday afternoon: Swazi king buys 10 BMWs for his wives   Mbabane – Swazi King Mswati III has purchased 10 new BMWs for…

Wow!  I am really impressed.  It has been about four days since I discovered that I had reached the 2000 hits mark.  Tonight that jumped another 1000 hits to over 3000 hits since I launched this blog in January 2005. Thank you to everyone who visits this site!!!

In the aftermath of the Mark Jen Saga, a couple people have some advice for our famous ex-Google employee and blogger.  Scobleizer offers the following advice for bloggers now looking for work and to Jen in particular: I told Mark pretty much the same thing. He has quite a bit of fame now and everyone…

Now here is an interesting news titbit.  I always understood that Germans are generally pretty efficient people.  The Telegraph has reported on a story that really takes it a step or two further: Post office goes by rules and delivers Hitler card By Kate Connolly in Berlin(Filed: 11/02/2005) The German post office has displayed its…

Last night was an experience.  G and I went off to a relatively new restaurant called "The Colour Bar".  It is part of a very funky complex called "The Mills" in Newtown.  There was an article on this development in August 2004 in the Sunday Times.  This is a little bit of what they had…

It looks like people from all over are being laid off because of their blogs: I got this one from The Joy of Tech!, thanks Michael.

I am really looking forward to this episode of CSI with Wil Wheaton.  It sounds really intriguing and after not having seen him in anything but Star Trek so many years ago, I am also keen to see how he acts in ‘normal’ shows.  On another level, this appearance is going to be the merger…

I did something silly yesterday afternoon.  I went on a bit of a buying spree and, in addition to Logitech speakers to replace the pair I blew, I bought a 256MB RS-MMC for my Nokia 6630.  The only problem is that my phone doesn’t pick up the card at all.  I returned it to the…