darwinshome

News: I'm happily married :)

Other news: Keeping LJ, Tech blog, personal website, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Jaiku, building websites (for buddies, and money outside of working hours), wife, and job all going is NUTS.

So some change is needed.

OUT: LJ, Twitter, Flickr
IN: Consolidation: using maybe some new tools, but changing my Tech Blog to a general personal / tech / random thoughts blog.

I wont delete accounts - but I will go permanently dormant.

In a few weeks (depending on the time it takes to develop and deploy) http://darwinshome.za.net will continue my online lifestream... in one form or another.

See ya all around.

For those of you that either view my Flickr page or RSS its feed, you would have already seen the state of my poor car. For those of you that haven't here are the details of the incident, as well as a link to the images. (On a side note - the car is now fixed)

A few weeks back (I think 4 weeks now) myself and my fianceé Karén were on our way out of Clearwater Shopping Mall in Roodeport - The mall only has pay parking available, So we are waiting in my car in the queue to exit through one of the exit booms;

A blue Opel joins the queue behind me.
A white bakkie (pickup)with the Shopping malls private Security company tags screeches to a stop behind the blue Opel.
One of the security guards jumps out of the Bakkie and with a rubber mallet starts breaking the rear windows of the Blue Opel - This scares the hell out of most of the shoppers in the area as it appears to be a vehicle hijacking.
The blue Opel, in an attempt to escape the security - pulls forward - I in-turn move forward and to the right to avoid the blue Opel from rear-ending my car.
The Security guard continues to chase the blue Opel on foot.
The Driver of the Blue Opel (in apparent panic) accelerates and impacts my car on the passenger door.
The blue Opel continues past my car, and escapes the Mall security by ramming the exit boom and an additional security Gate.

Turns out the people in the blue Opel had stolen merchandise from various stores within the mall, and the mall security had been chasing them for 5 minutes within the complex parking lot before the guys finally escaped out the gate - the Metro Police Department apprehendedthe thieve 10min later down one of the freeways.

The results of the impact to my door are available for view here

I am now officially a painter, plumber, electrician and tiler (or whatever you call the person that installs ceramic tiles) and a cabinet maker.

So far these two weeks I have painted all the walls in my new place, painted the ceiling, re-tiled the shower floor, installed a new kitchen sink and counter top, fixed various plug points and light fittings, installed a new shower door, and moved in most of my boxes.

Now all that is left is to install curtain rails, paint the newly sealed bathroom ceiling, get the new carpets installed and unpack boxes and move furniture out of the corner it’s stacked in.

I will take more pictures tonight, but I have added a couple more on my flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinshome

Got the keys to my new home on Monday night and went to take a look (first time view for me) - And I am very very happy with the place.

Needs a bit of work; Paint, cleaning, carpets, fittings and a personal touch, but it is home and I am happy.

Will be taking pictures of the painting and fixing process, and the garden, when I get a chance.

New office policy - Breakfast and lunch will be served daily.


Nice :)

A year of weddings it seems...

So far my life has had very few weddings, I have attended my parents church wedding (they were married by court originally), an uncles and a best friends.

Now within 30 days I will be attending 3. Last night was the first, a good friend and co-workers. (all the best Briggsie :) ) The next will be my fiance's uncles, and then in two weeks time will be another good friends big day. When it rains, it pours.

And to think it's less than 5 months until my wedding.

Watching Carte Blanch last night on TV, and seeing the interview they had with the group reminded me that I wanted to post about the their concert I attended a couple of weeks ago with Karén.

Great performance, excellent voices, and for the Coca-Cola Sundome, the sound was great.

One of the few performances I wouldn't mind seeing again.

Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
one look puts the rhythm in my hand.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.

Cover up with make up in the mirror
tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
you cry alone and then he swears he loves you.

Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.

I see the way you go and say your right again,
say your right again
heed my lecture

Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down a new life she has.

One day she will tell you that she has had enough
its coming round again.
(repeat)

Do you feel like a man, when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the grown?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life she has.

Face down in the dirt she says, this doesn't hurt she says I finally had enough..
(repeat)

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Nicked link from bonnie_rocks, Thank you.

One of the only reasons I think to get Firefox.
Super Mario Bros 3 Theme for Firefox


Image, thanks to Earlysound