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Yes, I am a typical South-African male and Afrikaans-speaking on top of it. The story that we like to keep our women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen is utter nonsense and classifies under hate speech. It is an insult to both our men and our woman. No woman with any self respect will allow such abuse.

While I don’t deny that there are still men who think that way, they are a minority and in no ways restricted to South Africa. You will find them in the East, in Europe, the USA (where the saying was born), and everywhere else. Generally speaking, South Africans are rational, kind, hard working, hospitable, and deeply religious people who maintain high moral values. Yes, we made our mistakes but we mended our ways and we are trying hard to redress the injustices of the past. But as with all other countries, you do get the exceptions.

Don’t allow the hate speech of irrational and/or deranged individuals to cloud your vision of South African people. I’m proud of what I am and when somebody continuously try to belittle my nation, my ethnicity, my gender and/or my person, I’m bound to react rather unkindly. Those who constantly soil my blog with their caustic comments, without ever adding something positive, will testify to this.


Have a great weekend, will you?

I wonder what part of a conversation is remembered best. Do people remember how you begin a conversation or how you end it? Or does it not work like that? Perhaps they remember the good part better than the bad part. Or is it the other way around?

Let’s assume that you need to reprimand somebody for some minor offense. Maybe it is your child, a student, or a junior at work. Do you first pay him a compliment to get him in a better receptive mood and then chew his balls? Or do you first cut him down to size and then pay him a compliment to insure that the meeting ends on a positive note? Of course, this is providing that the person took in what you said. Some people don’t listen to what you say.

And what if you cannot think of something good to say? It is easy to find a stick if you want to beat a dog but to find a brush for his coat is somewhat harder. I suppose one could make fun of it. I mean, if the person is sulking after you told him that he’s not using his head, you can always comfort him with a corny crack like telling him that for a dumb a**, he’s not really that dumb at all. It should cheer him up a bit.

I suppose one could argue that it may be best to start with something positive, do the unpleasant part, and then to pay another compliment but then the purpose of the meeting may be buried so deep between all the lip service that it may be missed altogether.

I notice this phenomenon on the blogs as well. A large proportion of the comments deal only with the heading (often misconstrued), the first paragraph, or the last paragraph, while the body of the blog, that contains the juicy morsels, often gets very little or no attention.


May you enjoy this day wherever you are.

Does anybody know where I can get some Virtual Lollypops urgently? I have tried Google but I can’t find any. Hence my appeal to you.

My father has 9 great grand children and some of them are at the ‘difficult’ stage. On Sundays when the family gets together, they sometimes get very difficult when they get tired. My father always keeps a few lollipops in his pocket and when they get difficult, he simply hands each of them a lollypop. It’s amazing to see how well it works. Before you know, the whole lot are quiet and in front of the TV to fall asleep on the couch.

I need a few virtual lollypops. Please help if you can.

And maybe a few virtual pampers as well.

Ok, I’m back in the market, but not just anyone will do. I’m looking for a very special girl. The properties I’m looking for are very hard to find. My high standards will not allow me to settle for anybody less.

I want somebody who has seen the bad side of life as well. She has to be young, beautiful, and orphaned, living in a refugee camp, somewhere in Central or West Africa, outside of her own war torn country, and coming from a very prominent political family in her original country. If her late father was a political leader or an industrialist and held a doctor’s degree, honorary or self awarded, it will be an added bonus.

However, an offshore banking account in London, boasting at least 6.5 million US Dollars, is a prerequisite, even if there are some logistic problems in securing the money. I will gladly supply my bank account and pin number in order to facilitate the transfer of money to my country. Preference shall be given to the candidate with the most money, unless if she is very ugly. But even then, it will be weighed up against her cash reserves. Money talks loudest.

I can fully anticipate that she will be in a great hurry to expedite this for I know and understand that her greedy uncles and cousins will also be trying to lay their hands on what is rightfully hers. For all we know, they may have been instrumental in the demise of her parents. I shall protect her against her conniving family.

I'm fully prepared to send to her the money for a passport, airfare, and any other incidental expenses, providing that we work through a reliable and trusted intermediary, maybe the preacher man that we find in every refugee camp. If we cannot trust him, whom else can we trust?

No, this is not about the money; I really do love her. I know she will have a wonderful personality even though her English grammar is not that polished. After all, she speaks French. The problem is that I don’t know where to find such a girl. If any of you happen to come across somebody in this position, please refer her to me. I will forever be in your debt.


Oh, if you find her, don’t keep her to yourself. My happiness depends on her.

If you don't like going to a church or persons house, Why complain? Why cause problems, just leave.

This morning our work ended at quarter to 5 and decided to walk again all the way to the train station. It was a cold and breezy morning. I decided to use the elevator in going down the entrance to the train station. I was about to use another elevator in going to the platform but there was a suspicious looking man who seem to be undecided to push the button so the door will open. Upon seeing me, he push the button and wave his other hand for me to go inside quickly. You know the kind of hand gesture when you want to say hurry up and get inside. I did not. I notice that he covered his right index finger with his shirt when he push the button. Not so sure but he didn't look mentally challenged and he was well dressed up. My intuition said no and I follow through. So many weird things have been happening to me of late. I just don't want to be famous and be headlined and become a statistic. I still believe Japan is a safe country but there are people who just can't tolerate the fact that people are different and being different needs no hammering down. If someone likes me, then by all means court me. I'm not that hard to please. If someone thought I hurt him, I really don't mean any harm. Peace to everyone!

The Earth, the Sun, and the Moon were created sometime last week with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. In fact the entire universe was created sometime last week. I’m not too sure on which day it was. It is impossible to distinguish between what memory is real and what was created sometime last week. Everything we can recall before then, are illusions created sometime last week.

Our memories, history books, fossils, tree rings, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth were all formed at the time of creation, sometime last week, and in such a state that causes them to appear to be much older.

Now, if all this happened sometime last week, then the memory of Darwin and everybody else must have been left with us for some reason. Was it to educate us… or to mislead us? And what about the ‘forbidden’ knowledge like genetic engineering & artificial insemination that we also received with the creation, sometime last week? Is it to be used or is it another Pandora’s box? (Am I alone in seeing some resemblance between Pandora’s box and a tainted fruit somewhere in the middle of a garden?) What other terrible pestilences can still befall us?

Of course, it is just another theory that is impossible to proof or to disproof. It only serves to demonstrate that our observations may not always sit well with ‘reality’. Who can tell what is real and what is virtual?

Absurd? Not really. More than half the earth’s population already believes that it happened this way. With grown trees, some in blossom and others bearing fruit, everything ready to serve their purpose on Earth. They only disagree about it happening sometime last week.

But the question that bugs me most, from a both philosophical and a scientific angle, is that if we cannot proof it in any satisfactorily way that it did not happen sometime last week, how can we be so sure that it did not happen 6000 years ago? Or alternatively, how do we know somebody did not quit his game a few minutes ago to restore us to a previously saved position?


May you have a glorious day. And think twice before you restore any saved games.

Can you believe that, in this modern day and age, there are still people believing that the Earth is flat? Several cults and associations support this notion.

They have ‘very good’ refutations for any scientific proof that the earth is round. When shown some of the photos of Earth taken by NASA, their only comment was that it is easy to see how such photography can fool the untrained eye.

My grandfather went to his grave believing that the earth was flat and that it was stationary. This I can understand. He was an illiterate man and the only writing he was capable of, was to sign his name. But some of these people are well-schooled people.

When somebody tells me that the earth is flat, I cannot argue with him. How do I prove to him that the Earth is round while he choose to ignore the scientific evidence and has a ‘good’ argument to support his viewpoint? I was taught that the Earth is a slightly flattened sphere. I never saw it and I cannot authenticate the photos taken by NASA because I was not there. I have to believe it because everything else tells me the earth is round.

But I wonder if these people really believe that the Earth is flat. Or are they just trying to be difficult, awkward, radical, or different? I know a lot of people like that. Well, here is a cause for them to support.

Becoming an associate member of The Flat Earth Society is free. For those who wish to take on a more committed role in the Society, full membership (including a signed certificate, membership card, and hand-numbered Flat Earth Society medallion) is available at a small donation.

I was brought up with a lot of misconceptions about many things. Some things that I was told are right, were not right and other things that was said to be wrong, turned out to be Ok. We are conditioned by our environment but as we grow up, we start thinking, we look around, and we learn. We weigh up the evidence and decide for ourselves. We cannot stare ourselves blind into what we think is true.

Oh, did I tell you that there is no such a thing as gravity?


I hope you enjoy this weekend.

I know it is still a long time before the next general election but there is a lot of work to be done. With a fair number of South Africans here, what better place to start my campaign? And maybe to gain some international support as well. I don’t have any experience in running a country but I was class captain in Grade 1. Surely, that must be a recommendation.

As we all know, election campaigns are based on empty promises and (here in Africa) one or two serious threats. Something like: If we lose the election, it is back to the struggle. Unlike promises, threats have to be real. All I can threaten is to have my backside sewn up and then to eat enough bean stew. I will start farting and with no vent, I will blow up like a balloon until I burst, causing the biggest shit storm this country has ever seen. Mind you, with all the shit stories coming from our current politicians, it will cause no more than a storm in a teacup. But it will have to do.

I don’t have to make empty promises like a new stove, fridge, or 6 million new job opportunities. I have a few plans to make it work. We’ll start by restructuring government service. A survey in the not so distant past revealed that 90 percent of our forces in uniform are unfit for their duties. Those who were not HIV positive, were over weight or on chronic medication. Disband the defense force and hand them over to social services to be cared for. One portfolio closed and one minister fired. What a massive tax saving!

Ditto for the police. They are ineffectual and forever out of transportation. Some police officers are so obese that they cannot get into a vehicle. How do they expect to chase criminals? Social Services can look after them too. Naturally, the courts-of-law must follow. There will be no work for them. All legal staff will be phased out on early pension. Their job can be done equally well by our our kangaroo courts. This is Africa. Jungle justice will prevail. And another minister bites the dust.

Then local government must go. They deliver very little (if any) municipal services and nobody will notice it if they are not there anymore. Give them their salary and let them stay at home. In that way, they will not need official transportation to sit at home all day. The traffic police too can sit under trees in their own backyards.

Of course, such reform makes it possible to streamline education. The abolishment of grades 6, 8 & 10 will jettison pupils into the labor market three year earlier than before. A saving of 25% on school fees to the parents. Besides, with the closure of the earlier mentioned structures, there will be no employment for people leaving school after passing grade 8 or 10. As an added bonus, it will push up our unemployment figure. We do want it higher, don’t we? It will assure a lot of foreign aid in no time.

Tax cuts? No, not likely. You must understand that this is Africa. Over and above the colossal salary that I will award to myself, there will have to be enough money to pilfer after the people I appoint as ministers.

With the fifty or so votes from friends and family, I only need to recruit another 20 million votes to be safe. A tough task but then I did not expect it to be easy otherwise every second a**hole would have been president… not only the complete a**hole, as is the case now.


Enjoy the new week. It should be fun.

While this is possible, it is unlikely. Unless if you have a static IP address, you are too elusive on the Web. Every time you log on with your ISP, you are assigned with a new IP address that was randomly selected from a large pool of addresses. The probability of getting the same IP address next time is rather small and a possible hacker who was busy trying to get into your PC, has lost you. He will have a hard time to find you again.

Condensed to a small scale, you get two kinds of hackers on the net. One is the ankle biter who has nothing better to do. He is the villain who will delete your data files just for the hell of it. If he is smart enough, he’ll install a script on your hard drive to delete your system files next time you start your machine. He found you by accident, he’ll do his thing and scoot off without even wondering who you are. A pain in the a**, but nothing that cannot be overcome by keeping a proper backup.

The other one is more dangerous. I call him the cyber spy. He wants information and normally he wants large volumes of it. Unless if you have very important data on your machine or something specific that he (or his client) may be interested in, he will not find your machine attractive.

What is the danger then? Because this is the scoundrel who will hack the Gmail, Yahoo, or Facebook servers. Those servers have large volumes of personal information (about you too) that can be sold to mailing companies. Or scammers will use the information to scam you and your contacts with the information they gained by reading your emails. They will not advertise their presence on the server, as they want to come back for more info later. A tip here is never to leave any information on the mail server. Use a mail client like Outlook Express or Thunderbird to download your emails to your PC and keep all your contacts on your PC. Leave nothing personal on the mail servers.

And CS? Will they be hacked? I suppose it is possible that some have tried, we won’t know and they won’t tell us. However, CS keeps preciously little useful personal information about us and data collectors won’t find it lucrative to spend the time hacking it. If your personal profile was hacked, you will probably find the security breach closer to home. Keep your passwords safe and secret.

Most hackers gain access to your PC via a user account that does not have a password. Make sure that every user account on your PC is password protected. You cannot prevent hackers from gaining access to your PC. It is like protecting your house against burglars. If they want to get in, they will. You can only make it difficult for them. A hacker needs time to hack a PC. Don’t give him that time. Don’t stay online while you go to the supermarket.

As a consolation, your PC is a low priority target. It will only attract the ankle biters. There is nothing to gain by hacking it. It is the fat web servers, hosting large databases that are at risk. Thieves won’t break into houses where they don’t expect to steal something valuable. Even Robin Hood robbed the rich. There was nothing noble about that; the poor had nothing worth stealing.


Have a great weekend.