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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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, … Read more