Month: April 2008

The above are about the only things a business can do. I’d like to look at Satrting and Stopping this week. Want an elegant, professional, up-market shop on the Internet? Sounds complex, and fraught with pain and risk, doesn’t it? That was indeed the case until recently. It doesn’t matter if you have an offline…

Last night in Ringwood crime struck closer than ever before in my 50 years. At least, that is, if one discounts the fellow who felt that my leaving a PC in the boot of my Golf in Umhlanga was an offer to share. At 1:50 am we awoke to the sound of our new neighbour…

As I moved home last week I put some insulin into the new fridge where it promptly froze. This is not really a problem with insulin, unless you’re expecting it to work afterwards. The end result was that the past three days have passed in a daze as my blood sugar reached new heights. (That’s…

This mortal coil has a few peccadilloes. One of the ones I find most interesting is our reluctance to accept change. Within a few seconds of meeting somebody we squash them into a pigeonhole in our minds. And that’s where they’re going to stay, no matter how much they don’t fit the box. For example,…