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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. (“Dr Who”)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. (Bill Gates)

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. (Richard Feynman)

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (Thomas Edison)

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. (Douglas Adams)

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. (Gordon Bell)

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. (Norman Augustine)

We all know that life has got its little ups and downs, and I believe I’m finding myself in a bit of a down at the moment. I will hang around, and try to keep you entertained though

I have found that no matter how tough a situation is, it is still what you make of it. I’m reading such a good book at the moment (Tuesdays with Morrie – a true story), and quoting it roughly the one character says that one should allow oneself to go through an emotion. Whether it be fear, hurt, grief, whatever. Feel that emotion, sob until you cannot sob any more, experience that emotion, and then detach yourself from it. You should say, this is fear I’m feeling, I know what it feels like, I have experienced it, but I’m not going to let it control me. Same with all the other negative emotions. There is no shame in being emotional, in fact it shows that you’re not merely breathing, but you’re alive.

I’ve also got such an amazing group of people in my life. People who are loving, encouraging, and who want me to be happy. I have so much to be thankful for!!

This is a warning to the people who don’t live in South Africa, but plan to travel here at some point or another. Please note, if you’re from a country where you can rely on public transport, this post is especially for you. You need to note that public transport is not safe – and shouldn’t be attempted unless you’re really brave. Rather consider renting a car from Avis, or any of those agents…

Whilst being in England I realized for the first time that there are people who don’t have a driver’s license. Adults who have never driven a car!! How strange? This is not a weird thing apparently – people don’t need to drive there – they just hop on a bus or a train, or phone a taxi.

In South Africa its a bit different. Yes there are buses . And yes, there are taxi’s. But you need to note that when you use either of these it might be the last thing you ever do.

These are not taxi’s like you know them in the UK or the US. They’re minibus taxi’s, which (as far as I know) are allowed to have only 16 passengers (but are often overloaded). The taxi drivers have long since been notorious in South Africa. Not all of them, but a lot drive like the devil himself. I have been fortunate enough not to have had to use a minibus taxi, but I have friends who don’t have any other means of transport BUT taxi’s. These friends, and millions of other people are dependent on these maniac drivers. Its their only means of getting to work, the shops, and wherever else they have to travel.

Quoting Thomas Thale: “MINIBUS taxis are by far the cheapest and most popular form of public transport in South Africa, used mainly by the urban and rural poor. But if you are a visitor to Johannesburg, using a taxi can prove bewildering and even frightening.”

Buses are all the same. In the past month I have seen two bus accidents on my route to work, and three taxi accidents in Pretoria. Just to give you an idea, I live about 7km from work. All these accidents were due to speeding & reckless driving (I.e. running a red traffic light). Obviously depending on which bus driver you land up with, but most of the ones I come across drive like they stole the bus.
Firstly they endanger the passengers – people who have no other means of transport – if they don’t take the bus / taxi they don’t get to work. Secondly normal road users are subject to share the road with these people. It really angers me.

Car accidents in South Africa are as common as snow in Russia. We listen to the list of junctions and roads to avoid every morning and ever afternoon on our way to work and home. Everyone knows someone who’s been in an accident – if they weren’t in one themself. Its strange how we just put up with it really?? Its strange how people get arrested for not paying parking tickets, but bus drivers and taxi driver get to endanger thousands of people’s lives each day – without any panelization. I have never seen the Metro police give a ticket to a taxi or a bus driver. Maybe I’m just never in the right place, but its unheard of. These people have schedule, and whatever we do, we dare not interfere with the schedule. It might just cause that they get one bus load less of passengers.

So instead the public sit in their cars, irritated, but too scared to do anything. The Metro police don’t intervene because … I don’t know why?…

Yes, we all knows we have to recycle – paper, glass, who know what else, so here I’m going to make my contribution and recycle an old post Thanks to Beth who tagged me, I bring to you the bit below from a post I did about a year ago (June,20th – 2006)

“Life is all about ass” You’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, or behaving like it!

And now, for the ones who are to be tagged…. I present to you

Kristyn-Marie | Tisha Best | Kuntry Gurl | Kelly | Barbara

Preparation for parenthood is not just a matter of reading books and decorating the nursery. Here are 12 simple tests for expectant parents to take to prepare themselves for the real-life experience of being a mother or father.

1. Women: to prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag chair down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months, take out 10% of the beans.
Men: to prepare for paternity, go to the local drug store, tip the contents of your wallet on the counter, and tell the pharmacist to help himself. Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the paper. Read it for the last time.

2. Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels, and how they have allowed their children to run riot. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child’s sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behavior. Enjoy it — it’ll be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

3. To discover how the nights will feel, walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 lbs. At 10pm put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, till 1am. Put the alarm on for 3am. As you can’t get back to sleep get up at 2am and make a drink. Go to bed at 2:45am. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off. Sing songs in the dark until 4am. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up. Make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

4. Can you stand the mess children make? To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains. Hide a fish stick behind the stereo and leave it there all summer. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds then rub them on the clean walls. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

5. Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems: first buy an octopus and a string bag. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this: all morning.

6. Take an egg carton. Using a pair of scissors and a pot of paint turn it into an alligator. Now take a toilet tube. Using only scotch tape and a piece of foil, turn it into a Christmas candle. Last, take a milk container, a ping pong ball, and an empty package of Cocoa Pops and make an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower. Congratulations. You have just qualified for a place on the playgroup committee.

7. Forget the Miata and buy a Taurus. And don’t think you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don’t look like that. Buy a chocolate ice cream bar and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. Get a quarter. Stick it in the cassette player. Take a family-size packet of chocolate cookies. Mash them down the back seats. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There. Perfect.

8. Get ready to go out. Wait outside the toilet for half an hour. Go out the front door. Come in again. Go out. Come back in. Go out again. Walk down the front path. Walk back up it. Walk down it again. Walk very slowly down the road for 5 minutes. Stop to inspect minutely every cigarette butt, piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way. Retrace your steps. Scream that you’ve had as much as you can stand, until the neighbors come out and stare at you. Give up and go back into the house. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

9. Always repeat everything you say at least five times.

10. Go to your local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child — a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat. Buy your week’s groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goats eat or destroy. Until you can easily accomplish this do not even contemplate having children.

11. Hollow out a melon. Make a small hole in the side. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side. Now get a bowl of soggy Wheeties and attempt to spoon it into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane. Continue until half the Wheeties are gone. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor. You are now ready to feed a 12-month-old baby.

12. Learn the names of every character from Barney and Friends, Sesame Street and The Power Rangers. When you find yourself singing Barney’s theme song, “I love you.. You love me…” at work, you finally qualify as a parent.

Someone mentioned one of his books to me – which I haven’t heard about before, and didn’t know much about (even after I was told about it).
Tonight I found some of Douglas Adams’ quotes, and these are SO good…

…He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

…Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

…I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

…I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

…In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

…In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

…It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

…It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an Airport’ appear.

…Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

…The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

…There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

…Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

…You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

…Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

…The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

…He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

…Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

…Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ’safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

…The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

…Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

…Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

…Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

…A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

…I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

…Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
…Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
…Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

…The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that’s not saying much. Let’s face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

…How can I tell that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?

Source: The Quotations Page

Today is the 1st of March, and I started thinking about the poor leap babies who didn’t have birthdays this year. I’m not one of them, but I do know a ‘leap baby’, and he celebrates his birthday on the 28th.

I read in an article how one is suppose to calculate when you should celebrate your birthday, here’s what they suggested…

To figure the right day to celebrate your birthday, you add 365 and one-quarter days to the hour of your birth. Suppose you were born February 29, 1972 at 10 PM. Then 365 and one-quarter days went by and behold, the first anniversary of your birth hour came on March 1, 1973, at about 4 AM.

That somehow just seems like too much effort though – I like the idea of celebrating on the 28th of Feb, as its at least still in the same month.

So here’s to all the leap babies! Hope you had a splendid birthday, whether you celebrated yesterday or doing so today!

Quote Source: Yahoo! (Answers)

Yes, its true, I have nothing more to say but write quotes. Its sad I know

I got these quotes in an e-mail a while back, and I found it so funny. Also refer to the ass quote, one of my favourites!!

Here goes with the list for today…

… Money is the root of all wealth.

… Monday is the root of all evil.

… What you call dog with no legs? Don’t matter what you call him, he ain’t gonna come.

… Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate

… There are 10 types of people in this world: those who know binary, and those who don’t.

… The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

… Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

… Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.

… Hire a teenager while they still know it all.

… To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

… If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

… Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another chocolate.

… Everyone has photographic memory; some just don’t have the film.

"Life is all about ass"
You're either covering it,
laughing it off, kicking it,
kissing it, busting it,
trying to get a piece of it,
or behaving like it!