I recently read a consumerist article in the paper promoting unit pricing on supermarket goods.  You know, so you know what your washing powder costs per kilogram, and don't have to do heavy calculations in your head dividing price and quantity.

I reckon we should lobby for unit pricing in pubs, so you know how much you pay per milliletre of alcohol.  So, a R10 340ml beer, at 4% alcohol, gives us R1.36/ml alcohol, which is basically what we're there for.  Then, a R10 200ml glass of wine, at 12% gives us R2.40/ml.  OK, lets stick with beer for value.

PHOENIX (AP) - Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said.

Looks like the Devil wins?  No?

You decide, but make sure it's an informed decision before you do.  Making informed decisions requires scepticism, and there are few better sceptics that Robert Carol, author of the illuminating Skeptic's Dictionary, a beacon of light in a world threatened by superstition.

I've just found out that, in the database I'm working on, the item ID for document line items is unique across all documents, not just unique within one document.

This means that all the reporting work for one  document type I mistakenly did at document level, and not item level, will still work.  It has to work by tomorrow, so this is a big moment.

Hey, I said, "...in a Geek's life."  What did you expect?  Sex with Natalie Portman?

Well, almost.  An article on News24 says trailer parks could be the answer to South Africa's shortage of affordable housing.  It quotes Gerhard Kotzé, CEO of the ERA South Africa property group, as saying ""And the image many South Africans have is that of the old-style American trailer park, with large numbers of silver cylinders baking in the sun of some inhospitable desert, assaulted by tumbleweeds and dust."

No, Gerhard, that's not how we see trailer parks.  We see them through the eyes of Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake, as breeding grounds for domestic violence and incest, vibrant commercial zones for meth cooks, and the land of opportunity for pod-cast talk show hosts.  Bring them on!

Past disasters linked to the number 13 hardly help triskaidekaphobics overcome their affliction. The most famous is the Apollo 13 mission, launched on April 11, 1970 (the sum of 4, 11 and 70 equals 85 - which when added together comes to 13), from Pad 39 (three times 13) at 13:13 local time, and struck by an explosion on April 13.
-- "It's just bad luck that the 13th is so often a Friday", Electronic Telegraph, September 8, 1996

My laptop screen broke on Tuesday night. Acer have just told me they don't sell spares over the counter, thereby forcing me to pay their only service centre to fit a new screen, and forcing me to accept their unacceptable waiting time of five to seven days. I am a software developer, and my laptop is my livelihood, so being without it for up to seven days could result in significant loss of income.

Check out the web site for SABC3 in Firefox. It shows a black page with nothing on it! How much does that suck? Wait! There's more: Desperate Housewives starts tonight, yet their What's On Today still shows CSI!

How much graft must be involved here to get some pathetic fat f**k at SABC3 to pay some cranial vacuum to implement an all flash and no bash site like this? This is public money being spent for f**ks sake!

I notice that most blogs here have no ratings, except those I have rated. Does this feature matter at all? Or are we all just too apathetic to care?

This afternoon I popped up to the local betting shop, to have a beer and maybe place a bet.  Turns out I got there at about 15:30, in time for the eighth or ninth races, and I don't know horses, so I need time to digest a form.  So, instead of betting, I just had a beer.  The Springboks vs Allblacks were playing, and there was a coloured man sitting cross the room from me.

Somewhere during the game, one of the regular punters behind me shouts, "It's a knock-on!"

So, the coloured guy (an Allblack supporter, ?) shouts back at him, "Ag man!  Dis seke net djou pistun wat nok!"