The Boere Computer Dictionary From South Africa

This came from an email and I just had to put it up for many to "stumble upon" to

Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai
Download - Get the firewood off the bakkie
Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold beer
Keyboard - Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
Window - What you shut when it's cold
Screen - What you shut in the mosquito season
Byte - What mosquitoes do
Bit - What mosquitoes did
Mega Byte - What mosquitoes at the lake do
Chip - A bar snack
Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Modem - What you did to the lawns
Dot Matrix - Oom Jan Matrix's wife
Laptop - Where the cat sleeps
Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web - What spiders make
Web Site - The shed (or under the verandah)
Cursor - The old bloke what swears a lot
Search Engine - What you do when the bakkie won't go
Yahoo - What you say when the bakkie does go
Upgrade - A steep hill
Server - The person at the pub what brings out the lunch
Mail Server - The bloke at the pub what brings out the lunch
User - The neighbour what keeps borrowing things
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When fish maneuvers out of reach of net
Online - When you get the laundry hung out
Off Line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up

Rarotonga - Cook Islands - English Polynesia

It may not be Tahiti, but when there are just three of you in the water with a great right every 20seconds, you laugh when one of the locals you are sufing with complains that another two people are paddling out and it is going to be too crowded to enjoy the surf. With a view like this while waiting that beast of a set wave, how can you ever feel like you are having a crowded surf.

This wave is twice as fast, twice as hard and three times hollower than Kalk Bay, Cape Town at Spring Low.


Image copied from http://www.pbase.com/aqohana/image/15065534

Heading for a dive...

I enjoyed riding my bike so much, on occasion I will "ignore" all I was taught while training to ride in the UK. I would pack my full dive kit, bar my dive cylinder, into my "Karrimor Back pack", climb on the bike outside my brother's flat in Plumbstead and ride to Glencairne. Along the way the a few other bikers would ask where I am heading off to or where I had come from. They would laugh their heads off with my reply...