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Author Archives: stuff writer
How can two drive together unless they are agreed?
Historically, the rules of the road embody the consensus of experts (and some non-experts) about how vehicles should drive to avoid collisions, and ensure reasonably efficient transport in a variety of conditions. A standard side of the road is used, … Continue reading
When I am king …
There is a problem with democracy: over time, people choose the most corrupt, lazy and inefficient people in the country to be rulers. Here’s how it works: people of good character who are skilled in their work are busy: they … Continue reading
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How to change the oil on your car
I changed the oil in my car. Not only that, but I also changed the air filter and spark plugs. It was great. Here is how you do it. You will need the following supplies. Most of these are readily … Continue reading
Installing ruby on rails, or not
Well, I thought I would install ruby on rails, and run it as a user under apache’s mod_fcgi. This is entirely possible: the user account can run any code, and installing an entire library of ruby scripts should be straightforward, … Continue reading
SMTP innovations for virii
It took a long time, but finally an email-borne virus has bypassed the MX records for a domain, where there is an anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-mail scanner, and delivered itself directly to the target server. This was a very obvious … Continue reading
The tooth mouse drops in
So the cousins have a tooth mouse. It delivers a toothbrush in exchange for an appropriately placed tooth, and lives in a drain pipe at their house. They have seen it – if not the tooth mouse, then the drain … Continue reading
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Jungle and tree poetry
So Grace, being six years old, wrote a poem. She doesn’t write so well, so her mother wrote it down. This is how it went: Over in the jungle lived a mother tiger with a little tiger too Climb said … Continue reading
Vet your pet doctor carefully
So we had this cat – it was called Nyip. Having a cat meant that we did not have birds in our garden, which was bad, but more specifically, we did not have birds in our fruit trees, which was … Continue reading
Pineapple beer
I mentioned at work that I had made some pineapple beer, and it had gone mouldy, and the consensus opinion on this was “WHAT!?” and “do you drink beer?” Well, as it happens, the answer to both of these questions … Continue reading
Mr van Sitttert, I presume
The “problem”: On our Johannesburg roads, there is a grand tradition of tailgating. Big cars sit on the tails of little cars. Little cars sit on the tails of big cars. Huge hulking trucks sit on the tails of anyone … Continue reading
