tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40845232011-11-28T03:22:11.957+02:00Life, Philosophy, People, News, Books, South Africa, Rugby, Food, Good Beer, MusicATWnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-2229851708762372662010-04-26T19:31:00.000+03:002010-04-26T19:37:52.236+03:00

Alan Sillitoe died on the weekend.What a gutsy real writer he was.I loved this excerpt from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)."You followed the motto of ‘be drunk be happy’, kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts”

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My previous post - refers.So it has finally happened. The country has rid itself of the spectre of navel gazing it was about to endure. It is over - Jacob Zuma has been redeemed and can continue on his merry way.I wrote in the above post "that if it could be shown that if the commission of a crime could be explained with reference to a political motive then the crime was justified and the

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-78228571012259753022008-08-26T10:11:00.001+03:002008-08-26T10:39:07.508+03:00

Another request for amnesty….Some time back, through the tough negotiated settlement that was CODESA, a Faustian pact was made that has set an irrecoverable precedent for this dear land of ours.Somehow, through this process it was established that if it could be shown that if the commission of a crime could be explained with reference to a political motive then the crime was justified and the

ATWnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-78364804479271593172008-07-18T13:48:00.006+03:002008-07-18T14:11:27.946+03:00

I have left this site unkempt and unmaintained for some 7 months now. The grass is now knee high and full of wriggly creatures. But, when I look at my previous (19 Dec 07) post it is as if time has stood still for the entire period.Both our state and that of our Northern neighbour are in stasis, stuck it seems in perpetual gyre, like mice on a treadmill.The only thing that has changed is the oil

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JR Lucas is quite an interesting bloke with a rather convincing argument "proving" free will but that's not the point today. I just like the quote I used in the header.Today I'm with Steven Friedman in his Thoughtleader column."This was not mob rule. In the main, it was active, democratic participation, precisely what the ANC’s preoccupation with public displays of unity has denied its

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-55237920841587937932007-10-22T00:58:00.000+03:002007-10-22T14:08:58.898+03:00

Jonny Steinberg writes in his opinion piece in Business Day."Why is it important to remind ourselves of these continuities? Because if yesterday’s illusion was that everything bad would vanish, today’s illusion is that everything bad is new. So many of the black, working-class people I have interviewed recently express nostalgia, insisting that life was more stable in the old days. Their amnesia

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-84423886243265794792007-10-19T11:28:00.001+03:002008-07-18T14:18:26.302+03:00

Where have I been?– a most unproductive day in office today as I sit barefoot and sockless in support of Jake White and his prodigies. May the force be with them tomorrow. ....So let me venture back into the netherworld of blogging with a newsy bit of diary writing to assure all that I’m still alive, kicking and slowly pickling my liver.Still sailing my sinking ship at work, dodging icebergs and

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Albert Ellis, archetypical stoic and the father of CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) died aged 93 on 24 July 2007.A great article and his final interview in Prospect Magazine.Some epic quotes : "He is also a colourful character, given to swearing like a fishwife (he has suggested that Freud's ideas were "horseshit from start to finish") and insistent on his view that "most human beings are out of

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On being pushed why I stay, and why I want to stay. I finally figured it out. I'm a gambler through and through. I could see this sky from many safer places but I think I'd just detest the people around me if I wasn't here. I just hope the dice roll well. "Goudstad stoutgat/Ek moet net aan jou boud vat/Vergeet nou maar jou, wat/Vir jou het ek ietsie spesiaalKaalgat in Kaapstad/Kan ek maar by jou

ATWnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-74212888722839296822007-07-23T05:22:00.000+03:002007-07-23T17:59:02.811+03:00

At last I've found it. The cure for airline food. While it gets the odd skeef look from the tannies sitting next to me when I whip the bottle out my laptop bag, what the hell, it makes a surefire difference to "chicken or beef?".

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Time: The only finite resource we have."Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouthYou pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigaretteThe wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget"- David Bowie (Rock & Roll Suicide)Reportedly based on the the poem Chants Andalous by Spanish poet Manuel Machado:La vida es un cigarilloHierno, ceniza y candelaUnos la furnan de prisa Y

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-56879674721971306152007-06-15T04:44:00.000+03:002007-06-15T16:48:04.290+03:00

When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder,Down where the sweating gang its labour plies,A girl flings down her hoe, and from her shoulderUnslings her child tormented by the flies.She takes him to a ring of shadow pooledBy thorn-trees: purpled with the blood of ticks,While her sharp nails, in slow caresses ruled,Prowl through his hair with sharp electric clicks,His sleepy mouth plugged by the

ATWnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-4090732711126443232007-06-04T09:07:00.000+03:002007-06-04T21:13:54.004+03:00

"This is the most high-maintenance workforce in the history of the world. The good news is that they're also going to be the most high performing." - Nadhira A. Hira on Generation Y in Fortune (June 4, 2007)

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A blog friend recently got her book, African Ways, into print by self-publishing. It seems as simple as ABC and that 1000's are succesfully doing just this, judging by Lulu.com Top Sellers.I think this concept is fantastic, there is something wonderful about getting the printed word onto black & white bound paper. But maybe it's just nostalgic old me.

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My friends at SA Breweries have an interesting section of their website where they try and debunk various myths and and rumours about their beer. Mainly this concerns claims that their brew is pumped full of chemicals. Sadly the attempts at debunking can be more accurately described as straight denial coupled with the usual SAB doublespeak, "We use an internationally accepted brewing process ".

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Let us begin with a parable. It is a parable developed from a tale told John Wisdom in his haunting and revolutionary article "Gods." Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, "Some gardener must tend this plot." The other disagrees, "There is no gardener." So they pitch their tents and set a

ATWnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-32137949742616980722007-05-21T11:24:00.000+03:002007-05-28T23:37:51.210+03:00

Christopher Hichens should have been at King's Park on Saturday.Via Pierre de Vos, I travelled down the road to this great radio interview with Hichens. He pulls no punches, in defending his book, god is not Great. It had me pondering last Saturday's rugby.There I was, still smarting at the inanity of the Sharks throwing the game away in the dying moments and then I look up to see Jaco van der

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-11969515708352202372007-05-21T09:43:00.000+03:002007-05-21T22:31:37.540+03:00

Took a quick & dirty weekend trip to Cape Town to see these guys launch their second album, "Between 2wo Worlds". time and space collide in this moment held inside / configure and confide that you can run but cannot hide / one breath beyond compare may someday get you there / centuries gone by, generations fly / enlightened and enslaved of your ancestral alibi / but no wisdom comes at cost or

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-87188981123483578362007-05-21T08:40:00.000+03:002007-05-21T21:03:48.419+03:00

I want this job. Just where do they find these people? SAB copywriters I mean. They should know better than to navigate to their wordprocessors via the brewery cellars.Another gem in the blurb announcing the arrival of Hansa Marzen Gold."The announcement of the new brand is well timed; as it is named after the German word for March, indicating the beginning of spring in Europe. Brewers in 12th

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-41666794178233494732007-05-21T08:08:00.000+03:002007-05-21T20:24:52.015+03:00

Old rugby administrators never die, are never fired, they just live on with their feet in their mouths. (Robbie v Hoskins). Robbie by TKO in the 8th round.Some time in August last year alwaysthewit wrote:"Hey and what-ho no Watson. I am glad. Never fear, he will play in the World Cup but he is not the panacea for the teams current difficulties right now. If he were to be selected now he will be

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-8921782022675428332007-05-07T11:00:00.000+03:002007-05-07T11:23:05.889+03:00

He's right you know. That David Bullard chap.I am a "anonymous, scrofulous nerd pumping meaningless drivel into cyberspace at all hours of the day and night simply because I [he] can’t find a girl to sleep with me [him]."That comment, my dear sir, is offensive, full of half-researched assumptions and as bigoted as any site filled with "hideous racism" that you find so abhorrent.Mike Stopforth

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Well, I've held my breath all season. Almost too good to be true, but the Sharks have pulled off one good game after another. A convincing start. A brief let-down against the Western Force aside - a fantastic season so far. Top of the Super14 log! I cannot complain, and whatever happens in Durban next weekend against the Auckland Blues I will not be disappointed. A season to savour. Now, may we

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-58120106016037893222007-05-04T02:02:00.000+03:002007-05-04T05:41:08.885+03:00

I wish I could track down copies of the English edition of this book which I picked in a wonderful bookshop in Oxford years ago. Obviously attracted by the title!+Strange that a book, which was a solid bestseller in France never took off in English translation. We're left rather with the umpteenth edition of "Chicken soup for the soul". There seems to have been an American edition but I'm not

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Good Julian Gough read in this month's Prospect Magazine. Strange how the good things in life become academicised and over analysed, ever more so these days.Back to simple pleasures I say.Back to incoherence that parallels our lives.Back to fun.Back to a celebration of anarchy."You may think that to praise The Simpsons at the expense of Henry James makes me a barbarian. Well, it does, but I'm a

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-51930868743146129132007-05-01T11:48:00.000+03:002007-05-01T23:57:44.259+03:00

I still cannot believe how annoyed I am at the entire shambolic farce that masqueraded as a showcase for all that I enjoy about cricket. Enough said. Thank heavens it's over.I am fast being won over by a view that all such outmoded international sports councils (ICC, IRB, FIFA etc) should be abolished and replaced by more "corporate" entities. If it's going to be a professional sport - run it

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There are not many big events in a beer drinkers life in South Africa. We don't have hundreds of micro-breweries. The few we do have aren't all that spectacular despite my enjoying the Pickled Pig Porter and other stuff from the Nottingham Road Brewery.We don't have much change in the standard fare.Every now and then we get a decent new addition to the fold. Pilsner Urquell, for one. More often

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-74270389251409239552007-04-26T09:35:00.000+03:002007-05-01T23:58:44.144+03:00

"Daddy's always at work!" - Miss Wit (age 5).Out of the mouths of babes - ouch.Looking forward to a decent weekend of family time to focus on the important ones in my life. Wishing an enjoyable one to all of you too.

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"Andy, where's my 15 minutes?" - David BowieFound this great online radio station, Pandora, that creates playlists based on your own taste. Fantastic. For instance - if I create "David Bowie Radio Station" it will assume that I probably also like Pearl Jam.Amazing what one finds to entertain one at 4am in the morning after a long night of midnight oil burning.

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“Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boringor impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.” Wystan Hugh Auden

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Another day in the life. I have only changed one word (somewhere in the last paragraph:).Memo: To all Staff,The recent transfer of our payroll to a new service provider has highlighted and made us aware of an error in the way that our previous system was calculating the tax payable by employees. This error has only affected staff who were on the company medical aid scheme.The effect of this is

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This is something that has bugged me for a while in the International cricket arena. But it is really just basic economics. And while the tragic end to the life of Bob Woolmer may have reminded me of my thesis it is not really restricted to a comment of underworld matchfixing. This is much bolder than that.As I said – basic economics. Take a normal series (Test or ODI). A simple 3 matches. Just

ATWnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-42461680194987268082007-03-23T08:30:00.000+02:002007-03-23T21:14:38.830+02:00

Random quote of current relevance:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . . . "- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. Random interesting blogs out there.Bonobo WorldJaysus, but it's one piss-poor book. Let's deal with theediting first. I'll admit that I'm

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Peas broke up with her beau today.March 2007 the end We broke up.It was mutual.And amicable.I feel like Captain Shiteski right now. This breakup has, like the preceding ones been reasonably public (and on this one, one can even read the other side of the story.)There was even a bit of warning last month.February 2007We had a relationship review at the beginning of this year and it made me realise

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Mate K (phonecall 5.15 pm): “Hey Wit, I’ve been in your town for the last day or so, had hoped to see you but the bloody meeting went on a bit. Must dash and catch the 6 o’clock back to Durbs.”Mate K (phonecall 5.45 pm) : “Hey, bloody airlines! Flight is seriously delayed – something about a delay this morning turning round. My boarding pass now says feckin’ 8.20pm!! We’re going to beg the car

ATWnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-28479964518144255822007-03-18T10:24:00.000+02:002007-03-18T11:22:28.459+02:00

Thabo Mbeki makes some telling statements this week in his ANC Today weekly online brief. (which also shows and interesting development in that many of the articles now have individual bylines. Anton Harber points out what a paradigm shift this is, here.)As we celebrate Human Rights Day, it remains to be seenwhether we have the will to know one another and to debate with one another; whether we

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-60668488294505353212007-03-17T17:26:00.000+02:002007-03-17T18:18:51.434+02:00

I think that Lance Klusener was one of first players to have the number 69 emblazoned on his back (apparently ever since several Pakistan players were reportedly spotted in a Durban strip bar of the same name on tour in 1998. . ).I am not sure what that says about the player but it must still be better than number 71 +.I was hoping to list the current crop of 69ers but had absolutely no luck in

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-48167583599388317522007-03-14T19:57:00.000+02:002007-03-14T20:59:37.777+02:00

Anyone remember these things?I must have been about 10 years old and could nail this in a couple of minutes flat. Right now I haven't the slightest clue how I used to do it , so now struck with trying to impress my now similar aged nephews, I have been swotting up on this "skill".And hell's teeth, not that I'm surprised, but a quick web trawl reveals that the craze didn't die in the 80's+ along

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In his inimitable Irish way Twenty says something I strongly agree with here.Stopped into a cafe on my travels yesterday in a particularly trendy partof town.“I’ll have a cup of tea, please”, I said to the waitron.“Whatkind of tea would you like?”“Erm, tea tea.”“Ok, well we have green tea,white tea, oolong tea, jasmine tea, mint tea, camomile tea, strawberry andraspberry tea, chai, bla-”“Stop.

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Now this is news. From the M&G.The contract for South African Breweries (SAB) to produce, market, sell and distribute Amstel lager has been terminated, Heineken NV said on Monday.Heineken would build a brewery in South Africa and Amstel would be sourced from existing European breweries until the new brewery was complete, the company said in a statement.SAB said it would stop brewing Amstel with

ATWnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-38067143312109838212007-03-12T12:07:00.000+02:002007-03-13T10:10:22.954+02:00

Two tries off set-phase ball and 30 points to 14 in an away game. I like it. The Sharks are playing some serious, thinking man's rugby at the moment. It was a relentless, pacy match and again I find myself really loving the brand of game that the guys are playing at the moment. And unbeaten so far in Super14! What is interesting is that while the team is playing particularly well it has been

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-88331378833389175522007-03-12T11:39:00.000+02:002007-03-13T09:45:21.946+02:00

The Witness reports. A NEWLANDS West man drove his Jeep Cherokee with his entire family on board into the ocean, apparently after an argument with his wife, at the weekend.........wife was too angry to comment..............the local fishermen found the whole scene hilarious.

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I know I bang the drum that says the more things change the more they stay the same quite often. But hat tip to IDEATE who was commenting on this article in IOL. South Africa should not see itself as the "criminal skunk" of the world because many other countries in transition had the same high crime prevalence.Searching for the detail on the 19th Century criminolgist Jean Lacassagne referred to

ATWnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-8452746605114925202007-03-09T12:35:00.000+02:002007-03-09T16:48:05.562+02:00

Much international sport, in its current form, originates from Great Britain largely as a result of their colonising ways in the Victorian era. The days of early 20th century cartographers colour-coding the imperial possessions of France, King Leopold's Belgium and notably the pink coloured atlas of the British Empire are long over. Perhaps more than any other coloniser the legacy of the British

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John Bishop reports in the Witness.RUAN Pienaar, who launched a thousand hangoverswith his intimidating touchlineconversion to win Saturday night’s Super 14clash against the champion Crusadersat King’s Park, volunteered to take thelast kick of the match. The Sharks are unbeaten after 5 weeks of the competition. Hell, I've been let down before after a good start to the Super 14 but I'm willing to

ATWnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-26074398528170759062007-03-04T22:36:00.000+02:002007-03-04T22:52:22.237+02:00

I went cold on reading this, flesh all goosebumps. Not the ideal accompaniment for a Sunday morning croissant.The Witness reported on Saturday.RICHMOND resident Bob Downs lived through a hundred years only to be stabbed to death in his bed by a gang of burglars. Yesterday morning the small midlands town was still reeling over the senseless murder of Herbert James “Bob” Downs, a 100-year-old

ATWnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-31430714821708258512007-03-02T04:33:00.000+02:002007-03-02T04:43:03.001+02:00

I've reached the part of the day - after a 21 hour stretch of vainly attempting to vanquish losses from a budget - when it's too late to go to bed & it's time I took a break. Fortunately I had a great cup of tea, which hit the spot perfectly.Oh, and Radio Paradise isn't bad company.

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Prospect Magazine poses its big question for 2007 to 100 top thinkers.We asked 100 writers and thinkers to answer the following question: Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next? The pessimism of their responses is striking: almost nobody expects the world to get better in the coming decades, and many think it will get worseTheir answers are here.A future cursed by "the tyranny of

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Dave reminds us thus things are not all hunky dory in paradise at the moment. But whenever I think about where we've come from I am placated. This 1986 (hell that is more than 20 years ago now!) Spitting Image song - "I have never met a nice South African", certainly is ,as this reviewer points out in his solid analysis, :"more than a little out of date now, as both Apartheid in South Africa and

ATWnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084523.post-16501407017123847652007-02-24T15:34:00.000+02:002007-02-25T11:54:41.104+02:00

And so, I emerge, ever so briefly from exhaustion, from spreadsheets and unreconciled reconciliations to say a cheery "Hi" to the blog world.An interesting article here (via unfogged.com) by Meghan O'Rourke at Slate.com.The new generation of "college kids" is now the "hooking up generation". Really not much different from my early 90's campus life. And as O'Rourke so keenly puts it. From at least

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Via Commentary . The Economist reports on progress in the field of neurology that is threatening what little hope we cling to assert ourselves as free and individual. It is also emphasising to a wider public that the brain really is just a mechanism, rather than a magician's box that is somehow outside the normal laws of cause and effect.Scientists have looked at anger and violence, though,

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I nearly died. I'm not sure where I was late last year when this news broke, but Bob Skinstad has signed for the Sharks next season. Keo has the story (and about 2500 comments!).I'm just utterly amazed at this story and keep looking at my calendar to see how close we are to the 1st April. I am also mighty curious as to what sort of compensation could lure him from his part-time lower leagues

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Reminded by this article in the M&G.Just more than a year ago several million people headed to a park in the centre of Seoul, the capital of South Korea and seventh-largest city in the world. They didn't go for a rock festival, a football match or a political gathering, but mostly just to marvel at the surroundings, to get some fresh air and to paddle in the river.The tale of reclaiming the

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Do you know where I found him?You know where he was?He was eating a cake in the tub!Yes he was!The hot water was onAnd the cold water, too.And I said to the cat,“What a bad thing to do!”“But I like to eat cakeIn a tub,” laughed the cat.“You should try it some time,”Laughed the cat as he sat.And then I got mad.This was no time for fun.I said, “Cat! You get out!There is work to be done. -

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I hope I never become a politician because a stance on the death penalty will always be divisive. It’s also something I don’t think you can change your mind or the mind of anyone else about.With the passing of Saddam Hussain and the new year sms jokes aside the more serious death penalty debate is now receiving heightened publicity Lawrence Douglas ,Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social

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A good blog buddy asked me if (rhetorically I think) if beer was my answer to everything. I think it might be. It as least as good an answer as any other. In my digs days I had the pleasure of having a complete double garage as my bedroom. It had space for a pub, lounge furniture, dart board etc. It had two steel doors and no ceiling so was mighty cold in winter but I’m full of fond memories of

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12% of every damned bottle I consume this holiday has been stolen!This is old news but I don’t think that it received the airplay that it should have at the time.In recent years South African beer has always been served in the following containers.340ml can340ml non-returnable bottle (“handi” – previously “dumpy”)375ml returnable bottle (“pint”)750ml returnable bottle (“quart”).Now – in August

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“Where have you been?” you might quite rightly ask. Well the answer is: “Not too far away and mighty busy”. I have missed the blogging world but an opsimath of note I sure have been with all manner of reality being thrust at me and with me being on a ascent of learning that I can barely believe. But, I’m loving it. What a fantastic thing – this human condition that realises that there is no such

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Well the Chilliboy finally makes it to the big time. Good luck good man. You bear the mantle of being the most likely man to keep the ominous threat of excessive political interference in the game at bay. As said earlier in the year, you have the brand to unite the nation behind you much like Ntini has done for cricket.

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Well, we won the rugby and that perhaps saved Jake White's bacon for a few months. But the entire occasion was spoiled by the immature behaviour of a number of South African so called supporters who decided it was cool to wave the oranje, blanje, blou. The sad thing about these individuals is that they were not beer-bellied and moustached. They were in their early twenties, born just a few years

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Well, I suppose it's a good thing that blogging has moved down the list of priorities in my life at present. Driven jointly by arriving in a hectic new job and having a IT network that seems to circumnavigate the world before getting to the www. (Damn slow it is too).My posting history this month has been abysmal, I do concede. Ironic - that being in a environment that I'm learning so much &

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"We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. "Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.Welcome to my life. It seems that

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So what is all this fuss about Mxit? OK, I can buy the idea that it does provide a cheap alternative to SMS for bored teenagers with dextrous thumbs who want to talk to people they know and have set up as personal contacts. But the mainly bad press about it abounds.When I was younger my parents and teachers all warned about not allowing oneself to be picked up by sweet talking strangers. Nothing

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Concert Review – Billy Joel does Randburg, South Africa.OK, he’s an old master, no denying. He admits himself that we’re 25 years too late. “25 years ago I was sh!t hot, but now you’re just going to have to take what’s left of me.” And that’s what we got. Good fun, a great jazzy backing band and some tried and tested, well worn songs sung in a well-worn comfortable voice. He has maybe dropped a

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"I put 34 years into this firm, Howard, and now I can't pay my insurance. You can't eat an orange and then throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit" - Willie Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.People do treat you differently once the resignation letter has been signed and submitted. Not badly, just differently and a little distantly. Perhaps it's part jealousy and for some a

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"A cup of ale without a wench, why alas, 'tis like an egg without salt, or a red herring without mustard." - Lodge & Green (circa 1590) When I was trying to find the exact source of the above quote (I couldn't, so it is only quoted from a scribble in my notebook) I came across a paper discussing Lodge and Green's late 16th century plays. The author, Dr William R. Dynes, comments as follows: "

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In the wake of yet another unsuccessful South African car-free day.. Via Brennie who I found while searching for this Ammons poem to share with the Ant. don't establish the boundaries first, the squares, triangles, boxes of preconceived possibility, and then pour life into them, trimming off left-over edges, ending potential: But I digress (again). Back to cars (or lack of them). This link

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Ouch! (perhaps because the truth hurts). Rian "My Traitor's Heart" Malan is widely quoted, alongside Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer, Chris Hope & JM Coetzee, in an article in the M&G. Which is in turn quoted from this article he wrote for the Spectator, free registration required. "We thought our table was fairly solid and that we would sit at it indefinitely, quaffing that old rainbow nation

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I'm frequently shocked at how little I know about my country and its people. Via Sotho/Rethabile Masilo I was led to this Guardian obituary for Mazisi Kunene. (some extracts).Mazisi Kunene, who has died aged 76, was one of Africa's greatest poets, inspired by the history of the Zulu people, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the oral tradition of African literature. He was as

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I had been wanting to comment on the ominous developments in the SABC news room. Having first posted on this topic in June this year when I voiced my suspicion that Zikalala was the motivating force in this debacle. Fortunately Inyoka has done it for me and has linked to most of the relevant comments.UPDATE: The question I had meant to pose above is: Will Zikalala survive this? I think he well

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This lass never ceases to amaze me and rarely disappoints. Not only is she looking fantastic and being the quintessential screen siren, now she does this: Scarlett sings Tom Waits. According to Foxnews.com, actress Scarlett Johansson has signed a record deal and is recording her first album: Scarlett sings Tom Waits. The record might be released somewhere next spring by Rhino Records' recently

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No. Not the Vlismas, Barry Hilton, David Kau, Mark Sampson kind. Rather the good stuff done with pen & ink some sort of computer software. I'm no expert and am not in the local comic loop (most of SA industries are pretty incestouos and the comic techies seem no different) but these sites are mostly original, witty, pithy and funny. Worth a visit if you haven't been there before. Jeremy Nell

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Came across this on my Arlo Guthrie search. Couldn't resist. "You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." - Arlo Guthrie By the way, if you're anywhere near Glen Ellyn, Illinois you can catch Arlo live tonight at the McAninch Arts Center.

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It's weird how life all sort of links up, somehow it is almost as if there is some invisible subliminal spiderweb that connects random events, information and matter together. Well it seems to happen in my brain anyway and if you read the my last few posts I will try and indicate how they link all together. But since it is my mushforbrain that they are mixed up in it could be a little bit

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‘A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do' - Bob Dylan.  "Success means never having to wear a tie." - seen on a Tantra T-shirt in Mumbai.

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Highveld's Rude Awakening are overdosing us with commercials and promotions at the moment. For goodness sake, win this, win that, buy this, buy that, sms us for this and we'll send you this. And now for a quick commercial break. All for a fee of course. Wake up guys, you're signing your own death knell as we will move to choice based, ad-free, podcasts and satellite radio sooner than you

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For the Ant who is nagging at me to post and is probably bored with my recent rugby diatribes.I do go off on tangents and get a little obsessed with collecting stuff. As my profile says I do treasure old stuff. I also love the whole retro aspect of new stuff that is modeled on old ideas. Or old stuff that still works really well even if there is a bit of ritual and effort involved in getting the

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Rassie on the roof Tra la la la la There’s a Rassie on the roof Tra la la la la la Rassie on the roof Tra la la la la He looks like the devil in disguise Wise wise Show me your motion Tra la la la la Come on show me your motion Tra la la la la la Show me your motion Tra la la la la He looks like the devil in disguise Wise wise All the beer’s run dry Got no more to slake my thirst All the beer

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And then there is the fact that each team has its very own Currie Cup "bunny" - a team they have been unable to beat this season. On 5pm on Saturday the Sharks face the Cheetahs in the semifinal at Bloemfontein. The Sharks’ bunny happens to be the Free State Cheetahs. But it’s a bigger bunny than most since it’s been growing in stature since 2003 and now stands at 7 consecutive losses. What is

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As if my previous post didn't allude to enough tensions in my identity. There is this article by Stephen Oppenheimer about the myths of British ancestry from Prospect Magazine.Going back no more than 150 years I have fairly even mix of English (Yorkshire), Scottish (Strathaven), Irish (Cork) and Swedish (Somewhere) blood. This would indicate a solid mix of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Celtic breeding.

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One of my all-time favourite reads is a (now) battered paperback copy of “Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain”. Edited by Michael Horovitz and published in 1969. I can’t remember where I picked up the used copy I have but it may have been while bumming about in London as a young varsity dropout (after my gap-year at UCT). So since I was about 19 or so. I still love it.

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A little while ago I hinted at an upcoming big decision. Well, ironically none of those 3 options materialised. But another one did land in my lap. On Friday I received a brief note inviting me to be financial director of a troubled and relatively small subsidiary of an enormous SA company. I'll take that thank you very much. But that means, bye-bye Jozi. Hello Port Elizabeth. (which is why it

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Over at Burnt Symmetry there are some interesting parallels and observations re: Chavez & populism. Some additional thoughts. Mugabe also began going popular in about 1992 (1992-1980= 12 years). 2006 - 1994 = 12 years (what happened in 1994 again?). But I digress. The blame here is partly placed on shoddy journalism (absence of objective reporting). I’m not sure that this is the case though.

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I don't know why this bugged me (and I am too scared to ponder on why any further), but more than once in the last while I have caught myself wondering whatever happened to Rick Astley. Fair enough he was pure bubblegum pop from the Stock-Aitken-Waterman stable but he had a decent voice and cross generation apppeal. I thought he would have at least survived, or attempted to resurrect his career

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Via Stuart Buck.He quotes from this article. There's some impressive new scientific research on your side when you tell your kids they can't possibly do their homework with the TV blaring, instant messenger crawling or MP3 player pumping. .... ... A recent study shows that the ruckus of such multi-tasking may make them learn less, and to use the wrong parts of their brains to store information.

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There are only two kinds of beer in this world. 1. Good beer, and 2. Better beer. I could do with either kind right now.

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I just received this note from a Thai friend in Bankgok. And hell, as a nation, they sure do love their king."There's no violence here, I just saw kids ride their bicycle to take photos with tanks and soldiers, everybody enjoy today as holiday.... and we are very happy to boot out the corrupting prime minister, then setup new democratic constitution.As you may heard from the news that there were

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I once witnessed a colleague entering a meeting room with a loaded machine gun. She calmly sat down at the end of the meeting table and waited for our boss, who was sitting at the other end of the table, to issue a list of demands and mildly contradict her (just once). At which point she stood up, raging. She switched the rifle off safety, onto automatic and fired the entire magazine of live

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George Clooney is fast taking over the showbiz mantle of U2's Bono in being an agent for humanitarian change.He is having a fair go at the UN in trying to get them to step up to the plate in Darfur, Sudan.[He] warned the UN security council that Darfur would become the scene of the "first genocide of the 21st century" if peacekeepers were not sent to Sudan by the end of the month. "After

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I've been in a reviewing mood of late. Books .. and now for the silver screen (OK rather one of those screens that pops out of the airplane roof and that keeps getting interrupted by the "chicken or beef" of the air hostess).Here goes.Yunus Kemp spells out my sentiments exactly on the movie : Nacho Libre . He does this so well it requires no further comment in fact.Jack Black's spandex doesn't

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A few more reviews to go, but the pile of books next to my bed is getting smaller.So Freakonomics....Great hype, great title (although that is disputed), some great ideas, but largely a gimmick. Levitt has been hailed as groundbreaking and has made economics fashionable. But sadly in this book he comes across as a one trick pony, once you’ve been amazed by the new trick it becomes passé and you’

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The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki Subtitled: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations What a great book. It gives insight into all sorts of social conduct from mob behaviour to riots, stock market behaviour, the benefits of diversity, elections and democracy. It got me thinking why South Africa is such a great place

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A bit of fun banter in the SA blogosphere got going recently when blogger Peasontoast found that her blog posts were appearing unattributed on the blog aggregator GrantAvenue. The site does provide a link through to her site. Peas ranted here and sent the site owner an email politely asking for the feed to be removed.I understand that the site owner duly obliged and all is patched up. His

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The last time that the Australia beat the Springboks at Johannesburg was in 1963.“Oh what a night Late December back in '63 What a very special time for me As I remember what a night”So crooned Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. The tale behind the lyrics is disputed. The lyrics seem to refer the loss of virginity, but arguments have been put forth that it relates to breaking of the 1933

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Single thesis sites that bug me more than crime at the moment. (in no particular order)http://therightperspectivepodcastblog.blogspot.com/http://stopboergenocide.com/http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/http://www.southafricaiscrap.blogspot.com/http://getoutofsa.blogspot.com/http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/The list probably goes on but I was getting ill on an overdose of false propositional

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It’s not the sort of thing that I’d normally be interested in but my curiosity got the better of me. I have been struck by the ubiquity of one particular brand in Seoul. That of “Von Dutch”. It may be because a number of their products are manufactured here but they are available on almost everywhere. While there is always the chance that the products available are knock-offs I don’t think that

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Seoul is one neon megaplex of shopping malls, stalls and eateries, and more shoping malls, stalls and eateries until you cannot shop or eat anymore. It's overwhelming. 1000 Sandton Cities on steriods. 500 Long Streets and Hatfields of student hangouts. Everything works, it's clean and the people are beautiful (Maybe it's just because I'm staying near Hongik University but I have never seen this

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"By the time you have read this book you will be able to write a Pertrarchan sonnet, a Sapphic ode, a ballade, a villanelle, and a Spenserian stanza, among many other weird and delightful forms; you will be confident with metre, rhyme and much else besides. Whether you choose to write on the stupidity of advertsing, the curve of your true love's buttocks, the folly of war or the irritation of

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Via Stuart Buck. I too, seriously enjoyed the article "Shop Class as Soulcraft," by Matthew Crawford, who praises the manual trades. Both as an individual and as a parent wondering how I am going to steer my children toward a fulfilled life. I loved the concluding paragraph especially the bit"cubicle-dwelling tender of information systems" "So what advice should one give to a young person? By

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“I have a few hours to kill”, I say to the well dressed bloke beyond the hotel desk, “Can you give me an idea of where I might spend it constructively as a tourist?”. The answer comes back “Jewel Beach. Take a riksha taxi, it should be 50 to 80 rupees for the ride”. It’s 10am, a wave of air slaps me like hot damp towel as the turbanned doorman lets me out onto the busy street in Andheri. I’d

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