Author: Paul

This weekend was a bit frustrating from a blogging perspective mainly because I couldn’t get into TypePad at all to post stuff.  I could reach the main page and other blogs hosted on TypePad but when it came to actually logging in, no dice!  So if you popped in looking for updates this weekend, my…

My friend, Wildchild, is a lesbian living in the Western Cape province.  Anyway, I visited her blog to see what has been happening in her life and found this post about being a lesbian.  This is something I know very little about and I suspect half of that is rooted in male fantasies about girl…

I giggled when I read this article on Ananova about a Buddhist monk who seems to have decided to break his vow of celibacy by doing the deed with a prostitute only to find she was a police officer undercover: ‘Celibate’ monk tried to pick up undercover cop A Buddhist monk decided to break his…

I came across this article which bears repeating.  It is scary how some people drive here and from what I understand about traffic enforcement in Europe and in the USA, this must come as a bit of a shock to readers from those parts of the world: More than 350 000 speedsters trapped AN astonishing…

It has been raining pretty much since last night.  They sky has been grey and the temperature pretty cool all day.  I can’t say today is my best day ever, work-wise.  My day centres on my timesheets and how much time I am billing.  I am so used to working like this that sometimes when…

There is a wonderful story on CNN titled "Rescued by Stephen King" which details how a previously unheard of author of an amazing 44 plays and 9 novels rapidly signed a $2 million book deal after author Stephen King wrote in his column on Entertainment Weekly that: My gig at EW isn’t writing book reviews,…

Six Apart, the owner of hosted blogging service TypePad and publisher of blogging software Movable Type, just acquired LiveJournal. Within six months Six Apart itself will be acquired by Yahoo!. In an article titled "Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?", David Jackson makes an argument for why Six Apart may well be bought by Yahoo!.  I…

Here is Bill Gates like you have never seen him before.  This is a man who is willing to go the extra mile for his product!  Go Bill! Seriously though, it is really good to see the passion and drive in these pioneers from way back when … you know, before they became really big…