My plans for the silly seasonChristmas holiday time is almost here and it can't come too soon. Well actually a lot of people are away already, but my plans are as follows:
15-21 Dec: Working like a trojan
22 Dec: Work Christmas party
23 Dec: Pack, wrap presents
24 Dec: Fly to Cologne, Germany to spend Christmas with Karina and her family (good family friends of ours)
25 Dec: Presents. Oh and food.
29 Dec: Mom's birthday, and flying back to London
30 Dec: Train to Edinburgh
31 Dec: Hogmanay (New Year) in Edinburgh with Solii and her friends (my sister-in-laws friend)
1-5 Jan: Visiting Edinburgh and St Andrews (where my family is from) and surrounds.
5 Jan: Back to London
8 Jan: Back to work
Very jealous of everyone that is away in Argentina and Chile (my brother and his wife), South Africa (too many to name), Zimbabwe (Di etc) and Dubai (my work colleague Shane, who is sadly leaving us). I'm going nutty without the sunshine already.
They've gone and done it again!
I
posted an entry recently about a bunch of idiot South Africans who insisted on flying the old SA flag in support of our national rugby team at the SA-England test match on November 25.
Well they've gone and done it again at a World XV match in Leicester which the Boks played this weekend. Not only that, they arrived with their old flags to greet our players at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg when they arrived home today.
Thankfully the Springboks have slammed the display of the flags. The
Mail & Guardian Online reports Springbok manager Zola Yeye as saying:
Look at this Springbok team. These are young men of 23 and 24 and they don't want to be subjected to memories of the apartheid system. I would like to say to those people who wave the old flag, these men don't care about your political beliefs or your ideology. They want to play rugby, whether it be against black, white, brown, pink or whatever colour the opposition is... Our national flag is our heart and soul, and these people are insulting the country and the constitution when they embrace the old flag.
What the hell are these narrow-minded people doing? You would think that 12 years down the line they might consider joining the rest of South Africa in our efforts to move forward.
The Death ClockI found a website today that will tell you the exact day of your death, "the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away... second by second. Like the hourglass of the Net,
the Death Clock will remind you just how short life is."
I apparently will pass out of this world on Friday 13 April 2063, and have 1,778,341,245..44..43..42..41..40.. seconds left to live.
Right.
We wish you a Merry Christmas...UPDATE:
I have heard this takes a very long time to download for those of you on a slow internet connection, so be warned if you haven't invested in broadband yet.
My team at Atalink, where I work here in London, has been working on a project for one of our
major clients for the Christmas period. It's a
really funky online advent calendar promoting the IT industry . There is also a
competition tied in with the chance of winning an awesome laptop or a projector (if you visit the site on all 25 of the advent days).
We are trying to get as many people to register and use the calendar over the next 25 days as possible. Check it out and share the link love with anyone else you know.
I think it looks really great and it's fun to play with, and a lot of people have worked really hard to make it happen.
The link is:
http://interact.bcs.org/ecal/
