The Elephant     Let's address the rather large elephant in the room, shall we?     If you're reading this and you're a white South African, congratulations - you are privileged and have benefited from Apartheid. You know it, I know it and so does everyone else.     That's the plain and simple truth of it - yes, I know that many white people are...

It's Day 3 and so far I haven't grown tired of anything on the 4HB - the recipes are many and the food is pretty good (Not sure if it'll continue like that but I guess we'll see) I'm getting into the routine of everything now - wake up 6:30 (which I would anyway), drink +- 1l cold water, cook breakfast, eat breakfast. I've decided to measure every two days rather than...

So, after having looked at a number of diets, plans and so forth, I've settled on the Four Hour Body that Tim Ferris is behind. It sounds interesting, touting high-protein, low carbs and some quite interesting ideas. Measurement is important to the 4 Hour Body and since I do so enjoy seeing actual physical results, I'm glad to have something to compare with. Measurements cover: BMI...

Hi, my name's Rob and I'm an IT guy. I'm pretty good at it actually and I'm continually exercising my mind with new coding so that's all good. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to adopt what I will delicately put as the "typical IT guy" physique and that just won't do. So, personal goals then - which I need to do my damnedest to stick to. Do 50-100 pullups by...

The avid reader will notice a trend with most of my blog posts. I choose an idiot and I blog about them. It's a simple formula and the subjects usually provide themselves pretty easily. I don't think anyone would argue that there's a dearth of idiocy around. Today it's Incredible Connection.   I guess it's partially my own fault for using them in the first place...

  As anyone who saw the South African fans leaving in droves this evening could tell you, support is the slipperiest substance known to humankind.     Tonight something fairly tragic happened - Bafana Bafana lost 3 - 0 to Uruguay and were shunted (almost) out of the first round of the Soccer World Cup. Now, whether you feel that some potentially dodgy calls by the ref...

Seeing a virtual machine purring along is a thing of beauty. OpenQRM is a fantastic web based package for managing your system, private cloud and virtualization technologies. It integrates seamlessly with both KVM and XEN.   So, here's a brief HOW TO for installing OpenQRM on Ubuntu Server 9.10. This HOW TO assumes you've already installed the virtualization platform of your choice,...

At the moment I'm a little torn. I'm not sure whether to feel upset or happy but I'm guessing it'll settle on a mixture of both.   On one hand, I don't feel as screwed over as the Wachowski Wangs made me feel. But on the other, I'm left with a sort of empty feeling.   Was this really the best way they could think of to end Lost? I mean yes, technically Lost (and...

Hi,   You don't know me and I don't know you. Now, I know that doesn't stop you from assuming that I'm just as ignorant and racist as you are but please don't.   If you should see me in the street handing a South African flag to a child or putting flags on my car's mirrors - feel free to keep on driving rather than taking time out of your busy schedule of burning...

When I work I inevitably watch bad movies. It helps me pass the time and I know I don't have to spare too much attention in order to get by.   So far I've had: Deep Blue Sea - 5/10 Terrible plot, horrible CGI but Samuel L Jackson has a great moment. Screamers - 3/10 Horrible plot. I mean truly horrible.   Did you know Screamers actually has a semblance of a plot? It's a terrible plot...