As Reinhardt commented on my previous post, adopting a policy of ATGATT (All The Gear All The Time) is the most successful way to protect yourself when riding a bike. And so the day dawned where I had to start my own spending spree in search of the gear that would suit me most.
I drew [...]

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The first step in my mission to acquire a speedy set of two-wheels is, of course, the Learner’s Licence test. It’s simple, in theory. So I phoned 0860GAUTENG, pressed the required random digit to get through to an operator, and requested a booking. My timing was, of course, less than stellar, as I phoned during [...]

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Yes, at this time of crisis, with a desperate shortage of electricity, the best thing YOU can do is: Keep your TV on!
Morons. TVs use huge amounts of power. Turn the damn thing off.
Oh, but wait, if everyone turned off their TV how would we continue to brainwash the masses?
[Link: PowerAlert.co.za] Not worth the time [...]

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A little over a month ago I was lucky enough to have my first ever ride on the back of a superbike. It was on a beautiful, dry, wide open piece of road between Lydenburg and Dullstroom with a biker who I trust implicitly and it was incredible. It left such a strong impression that [...]

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I came across Babbel.com today, which looks like an awesome language learning site that is also pseudo community/social network driven. So you can learn a new language from native speakers over the interwebz! They’ve currently got English, Spanish, French, German and Italian training modules on the site, and from my first six French words learned, [...]

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I tend to get a a fair number of puzzled and paranoid stares when I let people know that I provide an open, free-for-all, uninhibited wireless network at home. This is usually followed by the “stealing of bandwidth” or “security” queries, which I brush over with an “I don’t care, maybe I’m a communist” comment [...]

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I was lucky enough to stumble across these cool oil prints ‘invasion in oils’, a creation by Francois Jonker, at The Gallery at Duncan Yard, Hatfield, Pretoria, and picked one up for myself (well, it became a gift from someone else, actually).
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Contact the gallery: thegallery.cecily@gmail.com
Tags: spaceinvaders, art, oil, FrancoisJonker, [...]

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So what did you do today Shaun?
Well, I spent my morning (3+ hours) queueing at outside the Traffic Department in the pouring rain, chatting to a musician who’s just returned from Texas.

And then?
And then I spent my afternoon decompiling significant portions of an enterprise software application in order to discover and familiarise myself with its [...]

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