Taking Photographs is Prohibited
Sign at the entrance of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.
The alarm clock that runs and hides so you’ll never oversleep again
I need one of these! I've resorted to hiding my cellphone (which doubles as my alarm clock) behind the bedside table now so that I can't just reach and hit the snooze button. I once overslept for an afternoon class too O.o
The alarm clock that runs and hides so you'll never oversleep again
The Joy of Technology
So my friend left me his Xbox 360 and a bunch of games while he's overseas - probably a bad idea to be playing in the face of all my university assignments and work I need to do, but it's just too irresistible! I have it hooked up to my surround sound system and tiny little CRT TV - pity, because it doesn't do the gorgeous HD graphics any justice. At least the sound is up to scratch as I've discovered. Gaming in proper surround sound brings things to a whole new level! Now the last time I played any games seriously was probably around the time of Quake 2 with the exception of messing around with some race sims whenever I visit my brother, and things have moved on a bit.
I have been playing Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter the last couple of days - how awesome! It's in a way what I expected Gears of War to be like, quite a bit of strategy and interesting gameplay as opposed to madly shooting at things. Very cool, and the 2nd installment is waiting for when I finish this one...
Orange River Trip Album
I created a mini-gallery of my favourites from the Orange River canoe trip in Namibia, which is now up. I wish I had taken a few more pics on the water but it was a bit of a mission as it was very wet and my gear spent most of the time inside a water-proof camera case, strapped down with bungie cords - not exactly what you'd call "easily accessible". It would have been nice to have a water-proof camera like the Pentax Optio W30 or something with an underwater housing. Sadly, most of the camp sites weren't great photo locations either with sunrises/sunsets obscured by the tall mountains on either side of the river. In any case, I am quite happy with the ones that I did get 
Work-mode On
Great, so I got back safely from my river adventure on the Orange River. Pics coming soon -- after a quick glance yesterday I found a few worthy shots out of the 500-odd I took This morning was off to such a great start when I got stuck in really bad traffic on the way to the office. Oh well, I suppose most people are back to work by now. At least my inbox didn't look quite as bad as I expected it to be! And to boot, it feels really nice to be driving around in a real *car* as opposed to a WW2 battle tank 4x4.