Author Archives: stuff writer

Invasion of the evil androids

Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life.  They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do not give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions.  This means: You cannot … Continue reading

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Who will rule South Africa at the resurrection?

Jacob Zuma said in 2008 that the ANC will rule until Jesus returns. While things do look a little shaky on the ANC front, it does look as if the ANC might be able to last for a few more … Continue reading

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Illsong

Being distressed at the prospect of singing a Hillsong song, I collected all the lyrics of 100 or so Hillsong songs, and put them through a Markov chain generator, to generate new songs in the style of the originals.  The … Continue reading

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Hate speech

Melusi Gigaba said stuff about Steven Anderson and barred him from coming to South Africa to preach the gospel of Christ.  It doesn’t wash, and Gigaba’s history of adultery renders him an incompetent witness and a partial judge on matters … Continue reading

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Organs: Neither donor nor recipient be

Organ transplants used to be a matter of saving lives: after a tragic death, the better bits of the deceased are given to someone in desperate need, whose life is saved.  It was a good news story: sight for the … Continue reading

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Search-engine assisted fraud HOWTO

As many of the readers of this fine site are career criminals, it seems good to explain a new and popular procurement fraud scam.  Here’s a piccie to muddy the waters, followed by the blow-by-blow account, in which the numbers … Continue reading

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Hello China, goodbye freedom

The South African government and the ANC has started to flirt with China and take their loans. It’s too good to be true.  There’s a problem: The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the … Continue reading

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Repent and believe the good news

Update: Believe it or not, this is a muddled message – see the note at the tail of this article. Christians follow Jesus, who said as follows: Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of … Continue reading

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The password hash doesn’t have the expected format

Today I thought I would grant permissions to use a mysql database.  I did the regular thing, but it didn’t work: mysql> grant all on *.* to ‘user’@’169.254.1.1’ identified by ‘somesecret’; ERROR 1827 (HY000): The password hash doesn’t have the … Continue reading

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Homo Naledi explained

Since many don’t understand the scientific paper  on the pile of bones from the Sterkfontein caves, here is the picture: If making up stories about a pile of bones is science, then my story is science too.  It is, however … Continue reading

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