There are a few questions that have been spinning around in my head for a while now.

Does blogging in English improve the quality of my blog? Does it improve the quality of my English?

I'm an Afrikaans speaking South African. Afrikaans is my home language and I speak it every day.  read more »

I saw this blog entry over at TX Daily where they blog about all sorts of gadgets.

You can now easily get rid of all those bits of food and hair and dead skin cells that fall in between those keys of yours.

Just wash that keyboard!

And if that isn't enough, just put the keyboard in the dish washer.

Yes, it's dish washer safe!

I received this press kit two days ago from a clothing company that has created their own children's clothing range. You can click the thumbnails for the larger images.

According to the press release, these T-shirts are for the future iPhone owners and Mac lovers.

You can check some of the other clothing at their website.  read more »

Well, not really.

It's actually a very elaborate job done with a full-size replica of the Han Solo in carbonite model used in the movie.

Rob, a self-confessed nerd, has a few friends in the special effects industry (lucky guy!) that happened to have one of these replicas.

One of his friends had to get rid of this replica of the prop and Rob took the opportunity with much glee.  read more »

Here's an interesting article I picked up on the web today.

Did you know that a monitor uses less watts to display a black page than it does displaying a white page?

So consider the fact that Google receives about 200 million queries a day. The almost all-white page of Google gets displayed on average for 10 to 15 seconds per query.

Now change the Google site to be almost all black. That's quite a bit of potential power saving going on there.  read more »

ECN Telecoms is a company that promises ADSL lines and Internet and Voice connectivity over aforementioned lines.

I got so excited with the prospect that I would be able to get an actual line, a land line, with voice AND internet, and it would cost me less than what Telkom would ask me. Above all that, the actual ADSL line would not be one from Telkom  read more »

It's snowing in Johannesburg and I've got the pictures to prove it!

Personally I've never seen snow in my life so I'm pretty excited to see all the fluffy (cold!) white stuff floating around.

We were at the office last night when it started snowing at around 11.

It was pretty cold last night and we had the heaters on just a bit hotter than usual!

This morning everything looks so pretty covered in snow!

It's almost sad that it snows a lot closer to Cape Town and I could go see snow at any time, but I finally see it after moving to JHB of all places.  read more »