A Voice in the Darkness no more...

You just gotta love technology... Never has it been so easy for so many to get a voice out into the world...until blogs came along. Fair enough, you're still an echo in the ether, but now there's a chance that someone, somewhere halfway around the world, will read your postings and maybe even post a response...and hopefully constructive... My cousin Ross, the one that everyone has been following his escapades in South Africa for the last few weeks, is a deft hand at blogging and my inspiration for setting up my own site...thanks Cuzzin... Now I just have to remember the old HTML tags I used to use on the websites I maintained, so that I can put some emphasis on some of my postings. Short Term Memory Loss is a horrible thing.

Winter Solstice and Driving in South Africa

Anyone noticed how the fuckwits seem to appear on the roads whenever there's a full moon? On top of which, today in the southern hemisphere, is the Winter Solstice meaning that the earth now starts its long slow movement back towards creating warmer weather here in Southern Africa. I don't know if it's the same where you guys live, but drivers here in South Africa generally don't give a damn about other roadusers, pedestrian, cycle or motorised. It just seems to be worse today though...travelling back from a customer visit, cars were all over the place, changing lanes, cutting people off, honking at each other impatiently. South Africans, with one of the highest death rates on their roads, need to learn some road savvy before they become one of the statistics everyone is "so concerned" about...