Last week, I was privileged to act as midwife, so to speak, during the birth of two new blogs: Glynnphotographics and Appetite Catering. A couple of weeks ago, I had been asked by Glynnis of the Pinelands Muse, our local community magazine, whether I would be willing to give her, and a friend of hers,…
In September, Lisa at Notes from Africa started a new series on her wonderful blog, called “Caption This” (Gallery of Winning Captions). She posts a photo of animals in the bush, and you have a week or two to come up with a humorous caption: “When you spend time watching animals and birds in the…
On Friday, 26 August 2011, my blog hit 150,000 views! In the last few weeks, days and hours, I have been watching my stats climb gradually towards this milestone. The excitement levels in my household were increasing in leaps and bounds, as I kept Tuffy-Cat – and Hubby – informed of significant incremental increases.
At the beginning of the year, no doubt like all WordPress.com bloggers, I received this Review of 2010 from the world’s favourite blog hosting service, and I thought it was a really cool surprise present! I know I’m a little late with posting this, but it took me a couple of weeks to clear out…
Look here: http://blog.sa-venues.com/south-african-websites/ I quote: “On this page we feature links to editor selected Travel websites and blogs from South Africa and Around the World, which we believe are useful for travellers to our beautiful country. Please note this is by no means a definitive list, but rather, a work in progress. As we come…
You may have been wondering why the international internet connection from South Africa to the rest of the world is a little slower than normal. You may also have experienced delays and ‘issues’ with Google and Gmail and all those essential online functions to which we have become so accustomed. The reason for this is…
A strange ‘referrer’ popped up on my stats page a day or two ago. So, intrigued, I hopped on over to the link for a look. It was a bulletin board called Skyscraper City. I’d not heard about them before. I had a look at the particular thread that was referring back to my blog,…
This morning, a friend of mine sent me a link to a blog about a man who talks in his sleep. His name is Adam Lennard. His wife Karen, who first noticed that he was sleep-talking in February 2009, decided to record his priceless and hysterically funny utterances and to post them on the web.…
This is Zapiro’s response to the story of Winston, the carrier pigeon which proved, once and for all, that – in South Africa at least – sending data by carrier pigeon is faster than transmitting it by so-called broadband: Hehehehehe…. Brilliant.
South Africans have been complaining for years about the unbelievably slow internet connection in the country, compared to the impressive levels of connectivity available in Europe and the USA. Never mind the exorbitant costs we have to fork out. So it was with considerable delight that I read this article on the BBC’s website, which…
In June this year, I wrote about the “New 7 Wonders of Nature” campaign. The second phase of the campaign is now complete, 28 Official Finalist Candidates have been selected, and the campaign is now in its third phase. You can now register your vote for 7 of the following: Amazon Rainforest in South America…
For many years I have been corresponding by email with a friend in Switzerland. This morning, however, when I replied to an email he had sent me, my own reply came merrily bouncing back to me, with the rather alarming message relayed via my ISP’s Mailer Daemon: “host clean.netsolution.ch[….] said: 557 Your IP address is…
A friend of mine emailed me this link to a most frustrating and intriguing colour test. It consists of a series of eight screens. You are given a word at the top and two buttons to choose from at the bottom. You have to choose the COLOUR of the word and not the word itself.…
Yesterday, I had been so excited at crossing the 10,000 page view threshold and reaching 10,024. So it gave me quite a turn when I saw my total reflected as 9,898 hits a few minutes ago! Here is the new monthly summary: Months and Years Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct…
Table Mountain has been selected as South Africa’s representative in a campaign organised by the Swiss-based New7Wonders Foundation to choose the world’s New Seven Wonders of Nature from 222 countries. It is the only South African entry to make it to the second round. Currently, you can vote in the second phase of the New7Wonders…
