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January 13th, 2008 — Namibia
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The fatcat bosses at troubled mortgage lending bank, Northern Rock, will still get their huge bonuses. Absurd. Why when the bank is in such dire financial trouble?
December 9th, 2007 — Namibia
Look who’s trying to get hold of Namibia. Look who is taking advantage of a poor nation. Look who thinks they can just waltz in, survey police and other civic amenities and deem they have the way to improve the country and its people. Look who is a serious threat to the fabric that built and sustains Namibia.
Scientologists are a big threat to poorer nations and especially to a populus who will be more vulnerable to the scheming, cunning, seconhand car sales pitch they spew.
Watch out Namibia - the loony scientologists are coming for you.
November 19th, 2007 — Namibia
You don’t need a degree in human science to know when you are being given the cold shoulder.
The body language in the photo says it all. But how do you know when someone in blogosphere does not want to have anything to do with you anymore? Exactly how do you to detect this, if the blogger concerned does not tell you directly or send out a loud signal to stay the hell away from them?
September 10th, 2007 — Namibia
Namibia can be proud of their performance against Ireland in the Rugby World Cup. The Namibians pushed Ireland and to take two tries against a premier team is no mean feat.
Final score : 32-17 to Ireland. Read a full match report here and here
There is a long way to go in the World Cup and Namibia must surely be taking away a lot of confidence from yesterday’s game.
Go Namibia!
August 25th, 2007 — Namibia
Well as you can see over there on the right ——-> the sidebar is back!
It was GMK who suggested I let it ‘float right instead of left’, (which did not work) so I again went around the houses looking for answers only to eventually come back to review the same piece of code again and only a few minutes ago re-entered the 20em and BINGO the sidebar returned to its location.
Such a simple solution to a problem that baffled me for nearly 3 days .
Thanks GMK. Without your suggestion I would have ignored the relevent piece of code. A linkbadge will be designed and sent to you. I’d send a beer but you can get them cheaper from a bottle store near you than I can!
August 14th, 2007 — Namibia
I liked the comment I made yesterday so much I have to share it!
Its a Namibian thing.
August 9th, 2007 — Namibia
Mr O’Reilly really has opened up new avenues for article headliners to us bloggers. By just adding that 2.0 after any word, you provide yourself with a blank canvas just waiting to be filled.
[adding milk bestows more flavour]
August 7th, 2007 — Namibia
You so know that I will protest about self promoters & spam on popularity voting sites like Muti.
iProtest 2.0 is dedicated to whatever was never prevented previously , or for what’s probably #1 for tomorrow and what today might still chuck up.
August 4th, 2007 — Namibia
Saturday arfternoon. Sunny sky, no cloud, birds are chirping and twittering, doves coo-cooing, lawn mowers buzzing in the background a UK summer breeze wafts through the house making curtains billow. In the distance I can hear sheep lowing.
All is quiet and peaceful here. All is also quiet in blogosphere.
Visitor activity on the blog is puttering along at a slumbering pace. Today is a good day to catch up on relaxation. Today is also a good day to do some housekeeping activity such as update some of the Wordpress features like the Ping list. I have updated the list. I’ve also mowed the lawns, trimmed the grass edges, Dysoned the carpets, watered the plants and put the fans on in strategic places to keep the house cool.
It is a lazy Saturday afternoon. Probably have a braai later.
July 30th, 2007 — Global, Namibia
Having previuosly reached the dizzy heights of being ranked in the top 70,000 with Technorati, I watched helplessly as my rank slipped down to 142,000th. Nothing I could do would stop the rot and down the greasy pole I slid!
July 30th, 2007 — Namibia
The social networking barbarians are pounding at the gates of blogosphere again! Social networks are presently the online uber-magnets and are currently pulling in the crowds.
July 27th, 2007 — Namibia
African ingenuity is found in funny places across the planet. I came across this stall yesterday at The New Forest and Hampshire County Show. Was very pleased to see the way the bike had been modified. Africa at its best.
[Link:] Tools For Self Reliance.
Instead of pumping a bellows which requires lots of energy, the blacksmith can now have an assistant ride the bike and keep the furnace at the required temperature.
Cool!
[Link:] Tools For Self Reliance.
The New Forest and Hampshire County Show was a quagmire. The heavy rains over the previous two days of the show had turned the ground into mud, a’ la Glastonbury style. What was about to occur at 2:10pm caught everybody by surprise. Including the The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery who were in the main arena doing their fantastic show.
[Link:] The New Forest and Hampshire County Show.
I was soaked to the skin when the heavens opened and dumped a month’s worth of torrential rain on to the area. The rain persisited at full strength for 30 minutes. It was amazing and no wonder flooding has occured here in UK.
July 19th, 2007 — Global, Namibia
Went to the Garden Centre on Saturday. Saw a stock of Hibiscus in the exotic section. This plant always reminds me of Oranjemund, Namibia. My OPS (Oranjemund Private School) days come flooding back. As kids we’d pick a hibiscus bloom and like you’d pull the petals off a dandelion in a ‘Loves Me, Loves Me Not’ game, we’d play ‘Lady’ and strip the flower down to the carpel. Childish behaviour. We did not know the true significance of what we were doing.
[Link:] Hibiscus.
Oranjemund seemed to be inundated with Hibiscus. Everywhere I went, I came across a bush of it in someone’s gardens or at the CBD - wherever, there always seemed to be a Hibiscus nearby.
So I bought one and have repotted it and it is growing rapidly in my conservatory. In fact it has done so well in a few days, it is now going to flower!
So I thought I’d diarise the flowering by way of photographing the blooming progress each day until the flower is in full bloom.
Aaah!
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July 19th, 2007 — Namibia
Sometimes the heat at the Tropic of Capricorn sign in Namibia (see photo) is so intense you can fry an egg on the road or also on the bonnet of your car. The metals that make up your car begin to make sounds as they expand against the rivets and bolts in the heat and your aircon at full blast can cause the fanbelt to kaput too quickly. You do not travel in Namibia without a couple of spare fanbelts. My frequent trips south to Cape Town took me past this sign each time I made the trip south and somewhere in Africa there is a photo of me stood beside the sign.
It was lost in one of my moves. Like the King Neptune initiation ceremonies that occur on board ships when crossing the Equator, the Tropic of Capricorn holds a certain mystique for travellers crossing this latitude. It’s a rights of passage into a journey becomes your life.
When you come across the sign at this spot on the earth, you know that where you are has global significance. How little you are in the grand scheme of things becomes more pronounced here.
You should go to this sign in Namibia. Do it.
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July 10th, 2007 — Namibia
At long last Oranjemund has a new and active site on the web. Created by Mike Alexander (webmaster) it has a lot of functionality and information for you to enjoy while online.
Mike has created the site to preserve the history of Oranjemund and also to allow present day and ex-Oranjemunders to take advantage of a fully functional forum and allow old friendships to be rekindled and new friends to be made.
Oranjemund Online has a lot of B&W photos on display and if you have any that you think will be of value to the site, then send them in to photographs@oranjemundonline.com
It’s a Namibian Thing.
Links: The Forum Oranjemund Online
