zen bones...: Archive

“Bad breath smells like when you open up a lunch box and there’s a boiled...”

– Jessica, aged 7

Aug 30th

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Make My Logo Bigger Cream →

The video clip is priceless!

Aug 29th

Aug 28th

Aug 27th

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Aug 27th

R.I.P. Mike Zalani

Mike Zalani has died. While the circumstances around his sudden death are unknown at this stage, what is known is that he had been suffering for a while. We worked together for many years, and even shared an office for a while. He was a master of mastering tools – be it software or hardware. He knew his ASCII from his EBCDIC and his SNA from his frames. Mike was a fanatical technologist – he...

Aug 26th

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”

– Mark Twain

Aug 25th

Folding Paper (Great Moments in Science, ABC... →

Aug 24th

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Help, my browser ate my desktop

by Steve Mathew If you could see my desktop, you’d be better off than me. My laptop desktop, I mean. I have really cool wallpapers, a zillion icons and shortcuts, it’s busy. Problem is - I can’t see it. You see, the last year or two has seen most of my work move “inside” the browser. With the exception of occasional use of office apps, my wire-framing tools and some...

Aug 23rd

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Aug 22nd

“Zim inflation soars to 11-million percent”

– Zim inflation soars to 11-million percent - Mail & Guardian Online: I did some sums. What 11,000,000% per annum means is 30,137% per day!! Or 21% per minute. Picture the scene: “Shall I buy the USD2000 laptop now or after lunch? Oh, I see, after lunch it will USD5000…”

Aug 22nd

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How sweet it tasted!

by Steve Mathew ‘A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black,...

Aug 22nd