Hoke’s Ramblings

For those with Google Earth, you can check out my confluence track here. The most treacherous parts are coloured purple. This track doesn’t quite do the slopes justice because of the downsampling, but it should give you some idea of how nasty it was.

The route we took was anti-clockwise. If we’d gone the other way we could’ve cut out all the mountain driving, but hey, who knew? ‘Sides, it wouldn’t have been any fun then

Not so much a review as a summary – Vampires, Werewolves, Helicopters AND Scuba! w00t!

For several reasons, I’ve chosen to move away from my current blogging engine ‘Simple PHP Blog‘ and move to the more ‘professional’ well supported and actively developed engine ‘ WordPress‘

The new site is available at www.hokemon.com/wordpress. Please update bookmarks and more importantly, RSS feeds, if you use them.

To some of my more regular readers, the new site will undoubtedly look somewhat more tasteful, but rest assured this is only a temporary measure until I can get my hands dirty with WordPress theming.

The other drawback is that invaluable, meaningful comments such as these and these will be lost. To that end, I’m keeping this current blog online for the time being for posterity.

Also, most of the older links and images are probably broken. If you find any, please feel free to let me know.

By definition (albeit mine) I am now a Confluence Veteran. This Easter weekend I took it upon myself, with assistance from my new wife and family members to track down one of the four remaining confluences in our country. It’s quite marginal, as it’s only 250m inside our borders.

Read the full story here.

Hmm, having Eskom cut off your electricity for a whole day to do 'maintenance' and then switch it back on in the middle of a lightning storm isn't too good for electrical goodies.

I lost two energy-saver bulbs and a VCR. Mercifully both PCs and my new wireless ADSL router survived – probably due to the fact that I still don't have a phone line to plug it in to. Lucky me.

The nice thing about having your own house, is that when you pretty it up, you're prettying up your own home, and not some landlord pimp's.

The other side of the coin is that when things go bad, you have to sort 'em out yourself.

Having successfully repaired a blocked cistern inlet valve on one toilet, destroyed the inlet valve on the other while trying to see how the confounded thing works to repair the first, and having two fully operational toilet cisterns by the end of the day, I now feel I am qualified to own a home.