After living what I felt was a ‘decent’ life, my time on earth came to the end.
The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house..
The doors opened and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table.
As [...]

Funny how the word free always gets people to sit up and pay attention. For the last 4 years I have been using a Mac Computer that can’t get viruses and have amazing software like IPhoto that is only available for Apple Computers. IPhoto for those of you that don’t know it is a place [...]

If you look up awesomeness in the dictionary it will say Avatar right next to Upington Blog. LOL No, seriously. I watched the movie last night and for a lack of a better word it was amazing. I know not everyone like Sci-Fi Movies but this one crosses over into the have to watch section. [...]

This is so funny! A kid gave this picture to her teacher as a homework assignment. You can imagine what the teacher thought!

Have you ever heard of the Hat Paying System? It really works, let me explain. What you do is you write every person you owe money to on a piece of paper. Get a hat and drop all the papers in the hat. Shuffle the papers and start taking them out until your money is [...]

Upington is the wild west of SA where German car makers take their machines for high-speed road testing and Alitalia and Air Afrique send their fleets of jets to die. A poignant image that reminded me of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) a review of which [...]

A new study published by The University of Western Ontario reveals that couples who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family models.
The ’shared roles’ category, where each partner’s unpaid work is within 40-60 per cent of the total unpaid work, [...]

Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered particular plant enzymes that can make a big difference in food safety as the planet copes with two major problems: higher and higher levels of carbon dioxide and lower and lower water resources. The enzyme causes the plants to react to CO2 and change how they [...]

[ March 5, 2010; ]

Do you know somebody who has been touched by cancer? Would you like your workplace or organisation to join in the fight against cancer by supporting the work of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA)?

We encourage you to host a CANSA Shavathon event at your offices on Friday, 5 March 2010.

Your staff, visitors, clients [...]

The festive-season flights of close to 50,000 ticket holders are in the balance with Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele to announce today whether he will ground SA Airlink.
Transport department spokesman Thami Ngidi said Ndebele would hold a meeting in Pretoria today to debrief the South African Civil Aviation Authority on his findings after he was handed [...]