jebbx@notarealdot.com – watching life.

So South Africa has made Attuworld.com, and for all the wrong reasons. Not in the sense that our maximum security prison had it’s first breakout, but more likely because he covered himself in petroleum jelly.
Attuworld Article.

A while back there was an advert on the ole telly that features the mechanical scultures of a guy named Theo Jansen. Came across this video on Attu today.
Awesome.
Theo Jansen Feature

Despite the hatred in this land, and there is a lot of it, I believe in it. I believe that South Africa possesses the ability to become the greatest nation on earth. I believe that most of her people are good people, and I believe that those who commit crimes are the lesser of the [...]

So I have this blog you see, and it is occassionally updated, and there’s a real excuse in here somewhere, no! Really!
Okay, so I have been ignoring this thing for some time, and I guess that I should put some effort into it again. Having seen the new Moonflake, however, I’m wondering if a move [...]

This is a pretty nifty device that will help you look after your plants for you. If, like me, you have trouble keeping plants alive, even those that don’t need much water, then you’ll probably need one of these. Even if there are a whole bunch of yuppies wondering how they can incorporate their secretive [...]

Wow.
This is a facinating little device this one. Pretty damned awesome when you consider it was built before 1800… pretty damned facinating!

This rather strange looking device on the left here managed to get 3,145 miles (5,032km) on, get this, 1 (that’s one) gallong of fuel (3.79 litres).
That’s around 70 mililitres of petrol per 100 kilometres. Which means, that your R 6.28 or whatever petrol is per litre at the moment, would get you about 1,327 kilometres….. [...]

Some people are strange…
And I’m going to have to try this at some stage…

And more new software – Windows Live Messenger. Get it here: http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
Looks like I’ll be trying out a whole bunch of software soon…
And here’s Yahoo’s new Beta as well. Read a review and commentary of it over at Ars Technica.