warrenski | rocking the suburbs

A tribute to Jason and René, on their marriage

2006-02-11T22:52:00.000+02:00

To most of you, by now, it should be obvious that it isn’t that often that I log on to Blogger and accomplish a post. Juggling through excuses/reasons in my head, it's quickly apparent to me that between being kept extremely busy at work, and being the oh-so devoted boyfriend at home, it's no wonder at all, that I have no time for blogging. In a way these thoughts help me to deal with and justify

Touchdown in Cape Town

2005-08-03T18:16:00.000+02:00

Candice's Flight landed a minute ahead of schedule, and I arrived at the airport just in time to see her plane disembark. I caught a glimpse of her while the shuttle pulled up just in front of the domestic arrivals terminal building and she spotted me. We were all smiles as she walked to claim her luggage before exiting into the waiting area where we excitedly greeted each other with a huge hug,

Our Story - part III

2005-07-25T20:04:00.000+02:00

(continued from part 1 and part 2)All of a suddenCandice's departure back home came so suddenly on that Sunday. We raced from Clifton 4th Beach, through to Canal Walk to pick up her photo prints - which we'd sat retouching earlier in the day - and then back through to my place. Packing involved 10 minutes of scraping together toiletries, clothes and gifts for those back home and dumping them into

Our Story - part II

2005-07-18T20:21:00.000+02:00

(continued from part 1)Getting to know youCandice and I exchanged just under a hundred brief messages between us via the DatingBuzz website within the first 3 days of getting to know each other! At this stage we both felt very comfortable divulging our personal email addresses and shortly after that, our phone numbers followed. Plenty more emails messages ensued, and the volume of SMSes between

Our story

2005-07-10T23:30:00.000+02:00

"I'm loyal, affectionate and caring"It was the morning of Tuesday, 4 January, just a few short days into 2005. It was an ordinary day at work since I didn't take any leave over the festive season. Considering how many people were still soaking up the sun on beaches around the country - not having to concern themselves with being confined to an office desk for at least for another 2 weeks - the

All your favourites

2005-06-09T18:10:00.000+02:00

For those of you who've been around warrenski.com/warrenski.blogspot since the beginning, I know that you think I'm a slacker when it comes down to writing. Hell, I even think I'm a bit of a slacker, once in a while! So I thank you for sticking around and checking back here for updates every once in a while. A truly loyal bunch!Some of my loyal visitors may have noticed that I've been quite busy

Floury apples take 2

2004-11-22T21:12:00.000+02:00

Ok, so now even the Pink Lady variant are starting to get all floury. Goddamn it, what am I going to eat now?

Is it cos they is black?

2004-11-15T20:09:00.000+02:00

Another day, another revelation. At La Med last night I found myself standing around waiting for the waitress to deliver the credit card receipt for our meal. I was doing this for Vaughan, since the waitress had dissappeared with his credit card for about 30 minutes - there was no sign of her or the little folder with the card, pen and bill in it for signing. Now, those who know Sunday's at La

I think I cracked it

2004-11-08T17:38:00.000+02:00

Well, after going through one of my recent posts again and reading some of the comments, and factoring in some other little clues and evidence, I finally think I cracked it. I'm referring of course to the reason why chicks are generally dumb enough to attach themselves like barnacles to crap guys and maintain an unsalvagable one-sided relationship of continuous physical and mental abuse. The

Floury apples

2004-10-26T15:00:00.000+02:00

Goddamnit, I hate floury apples *throws apple in bin* Should have got the Pink Lady varient instead of the Granny Smith.

I waved at hookers last night

2004-10-25T19:23:00.000+02:00

It's true - waiting in my car at the robot, I glanced through my side-window (head nodding to my Everclear tracks) and saw hookers prancing around the pavement like pets on a leash, not straying too far from the street light, but raring to. In that moment, I viewed them as animals and in my head I believed for a second that they were animal-like. I unconsciously raised my hand and waved to them

The "OMG, he's finally updated" edition

2004-10-21T19:08:00.000+02:00

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome welcome. We won't even mention that it's been a while. Something seriously hectic must've gone down to prompt a blog post. I was chatting to a friend of mine about the psyche of women today (as one does), and one thing led to another which led to the usual outcome of "what in God's name actually goes through the heads of chicks sometimes!". This isn't meant to come

Hey, I'm back again!

2004-06-27T00:27:00.000+02:00

Well, after a short period of time, I'm back again. No longer at warrenski.com (although the domain's email functionality still works), but here within the blogger.com community.

Good night Internet, we love you

2004-04-20T17:00:00.000+02:00

It's time for me to put this lame excuse for a Website to rest for a little while. I'm changing jobs at the middle of May and have not organised myself hosting.You see, up until now I've been hosting Ian's, Natalie's, Tam's and my site all off my desktop workstation. I'm pretty sure that the new company I'll be working at won't have the same sort of infrastructure which would allow me to host the

Write for me

2004-04-07T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok. Let's try something else for a change. Give me some ideas of things you want me to answer or talk about on my site. Suggestions for new blog posts if you want.For exampleOur good friend Acidman wrote to me a while ago and posed this question: "Is it ok for me to find my own hair in my yoghurt?"Well Acidman, it all depends really. How did it get there? Did you purposefully toss it in there? Or

If only Google was male

2004-03-30T17:00:00.000+02:00

Just imagine how wickedly awesome the search results would be if Google was male...Firstly, the little input box would be pre-populated with a suitable search query - such as "white cotton panties", "Natalie Portman" (shotgun) or "Rene Zellweger" (shotgun) whenever you arrived at the site. The "I'm feeling lucky" button would take on a whole new meaning! Search results would be ordered in order

Stupid dumb-fuck self-centric paranoid americans

2004-03-15T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, maybe I don't know all there is to know about world politics. Some might say that I know absolutely nothing about the topic, and that perhaps it would be best if I just kept my big mouth shut. To those people I would say, go read some other site, I don't need your judgements; your opinions and corrections yes, but not your judgements.Admittedly, I also know very little about last week's

Why do they call them 'panties'?

2004-03-09T17:00:00.000+02:00

I believe the item of underwear received its name from guys who had no clue how to describe the garment, other than by the way it made them feel. How do you feel when I say the words "white cotton panties" to you? Yeah, you're just about on the verge of PANTing now, aren't you? Exactly! They're called panties simply because they make guys pant uncontrollably. End of story. There's nothing else to

blogging sucks (small letters)

2004-02-17T17:00:00.000+02:00

Seems like the sine-wave that is my interest in blogging has hit another trough. I find it so hard to just maintain the committment of frequently updating. Feels like such an effort everytime. I think this particular low was brought on by a swamping of Volkswagen work late last week.Earlier today I opened my HTML editor, in an effort to post something new, and before even selecting the text and

Squish-squash

2004-02-03T17:00:00.000+02:00

What's the biggest thing you've ever intentionally killed, or are capable of killing, by whatever means necessary? Ok, ants are really annoying and really easy to kill; just spray a couple of puffs of Doom or equivalent - asta la vista. There's so many of them anyway, that you don't feel so guilty about stopping them from invading your space. Flies: just as easy I'm sure, although slightly

Something to answer

2004-02-02T17:00:00.000+02:00

Thanks to Ester for the tasty fish-braai at her new place last night; had a good time.So, while we were in the kitchen, I happened to look at her fridge and notice a lock embedded into the door. So here's the question I want answered: why is it that manufacturers find it necessary to produce household fridges that are lockable?! I've never understood this practice! Is it for health-conscious

Detox Ice Lollies

2004-01-29T17:00:00.000+02:00

Pressed apple & rosemary (serves 4)Ingredients:1 cup 100 percent pressed apple juice or thinly-sliced apples4 small sprigs of rosemary2 lemongrass stalks, sliced in half, or4 wooden ice-cream sticksUse a suitable container or Dario moulds. Divide the juice into the four cups. Press a rosemary stalk into the juice, or press thinly-sliced apple into the juice. Freeze until starting to set.Press

Mmmm mmm mm

2004-01-28T17:00:00.000+02:00

Don't you just love the sweet sweet irresistible smell of chicks? I don't know what it is, but I LOVE the smell of chicks! From where comes that alluring scent? Sometimes it's blatantly perfume, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about that natural chick-smell that all chicks have, that yummy secretion that oozes from their fine fine silky smooth skin.Like, when they wear a top of yours,

Foxy

2004-01-27T17:00:00.000+02:00

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that 5FM DJ Nicole Fox is the bomb? She's the perfect DJ, in that she's the only DJ I've ever known who will always announce the name - and the artist - of a song after having played it on air. What other DJ does that as religiously as she does? It usually happens that they play a brand new or a really rocking song, and while you're listening to it you're

A photo is worth 1000 blog-posts

2004-01-20T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, I'm a lazy bastard, and it's easier just to post photos than to go into details about what we got up to for our new year's eve celebrations. You can check out the photo gallery, to see this as well as some other recent things that I've been up to.Strangely enough, I've got a stack of blog-topics lined up; it's a reverse of the situation of a few months ago where I had nothing to say. Stay

Whoa, Nelly!

2004-01-12T17:00:00.000+02:00

It's such a cliche, but I've really come to a point in my life where I believe that if you're being true to yourself, the things that people want of you don't really matter so much because you find strength in your true expression.I know it sounds really weird, but people say you're free in love. And it's true.

And we're back

2004-01-08T17:00:00.000+02:00

First off, we'd just like to give Tor a very warm welcome back from his holiday in the Bahamas. Tor, sporting the brand-new 40gb iPod (with all the accessories) and Canon digital camera, landed safely back on South African soil yesterday afternoon after being subjected to the recently introduced (and controversially) mandatory US finger-print capturing procedure (read paranoia). We hope that when

I am Rebound Boy

2003-12-28T17:00:00.000+02:00

Sure, the headline may be in jest, but let me assure you that this is no fucking laughing matter. Vent-blog™ begins:Answer me one thing quickly - have you, or anyone you know, happened to spot a big kick-me-style sign stuck to my back reading "Here be a sensitive person for you to take FULL advantage of for as long as necessary. The only condition is that you sideline him the minute he takes an

Merry Christmas, etc.

2003-12-24T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, I've just had two servings of brunch at our company's shutdown garden-party. Croissants, fruit-skewers and yummy mango-smoothies... and the obligatory double serving of champagne, of course. I'll be honest and say that I prefer the sweeter stuff (ie. white wine shooters), but this does the trick in any case.So yeah, here we are fast approaching the end of another long-quick year. Have a

I am a sexy bitch!

2003-12-23T17:00:00.000+02:00

I'd like to just take a moment here before getting into the latest and greatest, to honour myself for successfully developing the "World's toitest most bitchin'" comments system, and getting it running on the site, years after going live. Hopefully everyone will stop bugging me now that I'm posting again and now that there's a feedback system in place. Whine whine whine!I still don't like the

Ak-tu-waal-eee

2003-12-19T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, so we've received word from Tor who's away in the Bahamas on holiday:wow! this place is incredible....the weather has been varied... but there are two climates for either side of the island. The water is so warm and so blue. My brother Garth is amazing. The house is right on the beach. Huge beautiful fish swim between you... the sun is warm. The rum is great. The beer is light but

WA-tever take 2

2003-12-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

So here at the Warrenski.com headquarters, we're slowly starting to get into the holiday mood and wind down the year - as is evident from the change in colour of the "WaBlog" tab above. It's been a long year, so the up-coming holidays are a well deserved break from the usual mundane slog-work and ball-ache.Tuesday 16th December being a public holiday here in South Africa, everybody's favourite

WA-tever

2003-12-10T17:00:00.000+02:00

What must I write here? I'm pretty much out of ideas.

The real McCoy

2003-12-08T17:00:00.000+02:00

It had to happen sometime. We dragged Nat down to Clifton 4th for a photo opportunity so that we could do a comparison with the photos taken of "fake" Nat a few weeks ago. The results are uncanny!Note that here in this shot, Vaughan is playing the role of freaky old dude. Dude, you got the pose all wrong and weren't meant to be laughing so much.

Blushing Blacks

2003-12-05T17:00:00.000+02:00

I've wondered for a while now whether black people blushed. Visibly that is.Of course they must. Blushing is one of the most peculiar and most human of expressions. It generally results from a person being ashamed, wishing to flee a situation, wanting to hide or conceal something that happened before. This involuntary reflex action requires a certain social context, and in this context the body

Just in Timber lake, Oz he Oz Born and The

2003-11-28T17:00:00.000+02:00

Dudes, words are funny things. Check it out. Like what is like the meaning of "dog". Say it to yourself a couple of times: "dog"... "dog"... "Dog"... "dOg"... "doG"... "DOg". No matter how many times you repeat it, it just doesn't like sound any more like the thing it is describing. "Hey dog... roll-over!", "good DOG". What the fuck were people thinking when they named a dog, a dog?And like, what

So, you think you're hardcore, huh?

2003-11-20T17:00:00.000+02:00

Just read this now and thought it was the most harcore thing ever:REUTERS, Moscow - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care."The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles of vodka. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a

Fo shizzle mah nizzle!

2003-11-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

A while ago, I wrote to Sherry explaining to her that according to some friends of mine, women these days are only interested in a rough-tough type of guy that plays rugby, likes braai-meat, has a thick wallet and fancy car. Sherry had this to say:Your close friends only confessed half of the story - or at least, did ahalf-baked job of explaining the whole story when they said they're

Doing some people some favours...

2003-11-17T17:00:00.006+02:00

Warrenski.com is no more. Thanks to this guy. He had this to say:Dear Blog Nazi....The stagnance that is Warrenski.com is fouling up the internet with it's putrid stench. (Ever left a Greek salad in the fridge for 6months?).Do the world a favour, change it, I don't care what you change it to, just change it plllllllleeeeaaaazzzeee... *rips remainder of hair out*We're tired of Lindy and I'm sure

Toasters in the sea

2003-11-17T17:00:00.005+02:00

We all know that electricity and water don't mix very well. We also know and are taught that inserting human-beings into that dangerous mix could prove fatal.For a while now I've wondered what would happen if you were to connect a really long extension-chord to a toaster and toss it into the sea during the hot Summer December holidays - when Cape Town's infested with all those people from Gauteng

Shock! Horror!

2003-11-17T17:00:00.004+02:00

Ok, forget about toasters in the sea - Dylan at work says that it wouldn't work. Eventhough salt water would improve the conductivity of the current, the range would still not be sufficient to shock a beach-load of swimmers.I'd like to change my apparatus from a mere toaster to a fat cable direct from a Koeberg pylon. Now, what sort of damage would that do?

Have that bad meal, have it!

2003-11-17T17:00:00.003+02:00

I've lost 10kg and my son Jason [who just sits there smiling like an idiot] has lost 20kg in just 2 months... if you're having that bad meal, eat it, but take a Fat Attack after.Fuck I hate infomercials.

Manipulating, conniving bastards

2003-11-17T17:00:00.002+02:00

I hate people that are manipulative and conniving. Sadly I find myself surrounded by them daily. You'd think that they'd make themselves less obvious in their approach, but their greedy ulterior motives shine brighter than the sun. Ass-licking career-furthering is something I shall never stoop to, ever. Bastards!I also hate people that think they know everything and have thoughtless assumptions

I have a confession

2003-11-17T17:00:00.001+02:00

I like commenting on other's blogs more than I like blogging on my own.

Introducing a new kid on the block

2003-11-17T17:00:00.000+02:00

HTTP://WWW.CALLTHEBALL.ZA.NET/Welcome to the 21st century, Vaughan.

Easy tiger

2003-11-14T17:00:00.000+02:00

Whoooa, the new Audi A3 is rocking! Initially, only the 2.0 TDI is available with 103kW power and 132Nm torque. Yum! It loves accelerating and is so damn sexy. I want one.Next year Audi South Africa will be bringing out the 2.0 FSI and 2.0 TDI (with DSG technology) as well as the extremely powerful 3.2 V6. You can just imagine how that monster performs.As usual, you can find a series of photos in

Lindy needs your help

2003-03-09T17:00:00.000+02:00

Right now, there’s a 16-year-old girl named Lindy Anderson sitting in Wynberg, with a highly uncertain future. She’s in the third and most advanced stage of leukaemia, and has only months to live if she does not receive a very necessary bone-marrow transplant. She’s cut her hair in preparation for a six-week course of chemotherapy.I am really not looking forward to the chemotherapy and I am

2003-01-12T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, first post of the new year — and I’m going to keep it very brief.Just wanted to announce that photos from the holiday are up in the photo gallery:Paint-ball5FM/Camps Bay Summer FestivalNight Out In KnysnaNew Year's Eve at PlettNight Out at Cactus In GeorgeDuncan & Melinda Tie the Knot

2002-12-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

Today’s post is quite possibly one of the most un-interesting/interesting things I’ve ever written about.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ulliam corper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem veleum

2002-12-14T17:00:00.000+02:00

One thought that frequently crosses my mind, especially when I’m walking through densely populated shopping malls or gatherings, is just how many people there are in the world. I wonder to myself just what percentage of those crowds make up the entire population of the world. It’s mind-numbing to think that what we perceive as crowds of people, are merely a drop in the ocean of a even bigger

2002-12-13T17:00:00.000+02:00

Happy Friday the 13th.My gift to you today are photos from Justine & Mark’s semi-housewarming party a few weeks ago, and some “Cape Town is Beautiful — part II” photos taken last Friday on a 37ºC Summer day, from Dolphin Beach, in the Mother City.Almost up-to-date now with my photo uploading-backlog.

2002-12-12T17:00:00.000+02:00

Photos from Rhona’s arrival and first weekend in Cape Town, are now up in the gallery. There’s still a bit of a photo-uploading backlog to get through, but I’ll eventually get to it.I’ve said this a million billion jillion trillion zillion times before — time is moving way too quickly. It’s good in some ways — like for example, I’m looking so forward to end of year leave, and it can’t come quick

2002-12-08T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, how’s this for a tangent:Remember your primary school tuck-shop? How cool was the food that they used to sell. I don’t know about you, but primary school tuck-shop food was amazing! Somehow, the moms working there in the back put something magical into those hot-dogs and sausage rolls. It was always so exciting to be given R2 for lunch on odd occasions and to buy items at the tuck-shop and

2002-12-06T17:00:00.000+02:00

Feels like the anchor that’s been tied me for most of the year has finally been unchained and set free. Feels like I’ve been released from that now, and have been allowed to re-surface above the water, to breathe again. Enough cryptic speak — I saw my orthopaedic surgeon for the last time this year, and only need to return next June. The really amazing news (to me anyway) is that since I last saw

2002-12-02T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well well well — this is proof that miracles do happen. If there’s anyone out there that hasn’t actually given up hope of me ever doing another update again, thanks for having the faith to come back religiously to see if anything’s changed here. And for those of you who doubt that that has been happening, I’ve got server logs to prove it… so there! For anyone new to the site who doesn’t know what

2002-10-19T17:00:00.000+02:00

Yay, I’m back! I’ve been unchained from my desk and the new Volkswagen site is live.Happy birthday for yesterday, Damien. Cornerhouse was rocking and it was good getting out again for a change.I’ve posted some photos in the gallery of Tanya & Mark’s wedding 2 weeks ago and last weekend’s crazy effort to complete the Volkswagen Website.That’s it for now.

2002-09-27T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, so I drive like a bit of an asshole sometimes. But that’s no reason for fucking traffic cops to pull me over on my way to work…Fuck-it! Yes it happened again — another damn speeding fine. You’d think I would’ve learnt my lesson by now, but noooo. Really pisses me off to no end. I hate traffic cops — the kind of hate that is so harsh that’d make you stand back and go “whoa, that’s lank harsh

2002-09-19T17:00:00.000+02:00

…happy birthday dear Natalieeee, happy birthday to you! Hip-hip horraaay! Welcome to your 20’s!Yes, I’m still alive and am still around, but it will be a long time before anyone hears much from me again. Volkswagen owns me for the next 3 weeks… no jokes.

2002-09-08T17:00:00.000+02:00

Photos from Friday night at Brollocks and Saturday night celebrating Justine’s birthday, are up in the photo gallery.Justine, hope that you have an awesome birthday tomorrow!

2002-09-07T17:00:00.000+02:00

Last night I had one of the funniest nights of my life.After months of trying to arrange a guy’s night out with Shaun and some college friends, we finally met up at Brollocks in Stellenbosch, with the exception of Brendan. When we arrived, the club wasn’t that busy and there was no sign of Shaun and the other guys he invited out with him. Damien and I walked around like a bunch of dumbasses for

2002-09-01T17:00:00.000+02:00

Spring, as they say, has officially sprung — finally the promise of warmer weather and less rain, and longer days.But the changing of seasons is not something that I want to talk about today. In fact, most of us probably take for granted that we’re here to witness that occurrence.Instead, today I would like to make a little tribute to Gerald Heuwel. Most of you reading this won’t know the name,

2002-08-26T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, well, well — it’s another Monday already!Am not going to pretend that this is another update, because it’s not. It’s merely an announcement to say that the photos from Friday night’s party at Claire’s res and yesterday’s picnic at Kirstenbosch, are up in the gallery. Leave some comments.

2002-08-20T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, it’s almost 8pm and I’m still at the office. Have stopped working now and have fired up Winamp and am listening to some new music by Tori Amos on what seems to be her new EP entitled “Scarlet’s Walk” — it’s absolutely brilliant stuff. I love her music: it’s so fantastical, melodramatic, dreamy and expressive; seem to be able to really immerse myself in it.I won’t mention that it’s been

2002-08-13T17:00:00.000+02:00

Everyone is invited to join the Me Skanky posse at Brollocks this Friday night for a massive party.

2002-08-01T17:00:00.000+02:00

Hey, it’s the 1st of the month again.

2002-07-28T17:00:00.000+02:00

All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy.All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work and no play makes warrenski a dull boy. All work

2002-07-26T17:00:00.000+02:00

First up, happy birthday to Acidman — have a wicked day dude.Ian buddy, glad that you arrived safely in the U.K. — it was comforting reading your email; I think you’ll be just fine over there. I hosed myself when I read this paragraph:A little while ago I walked past a tiny little cottage on the side of an even tinier little country lane. The cottage was called ‘The Corner House’. I felt like

2002-07-25T17:00:00.000+02:00

So Ian’s left; hard to believe that the day has come and gone already. I’ve said this before: time moves way too quickly. Ian buddy, good luck in the U.K. — we’re all thinking about you back here. Send us good news.On a totally different note, the MeSkanky.com domain has been registered and the DNS should have propogated by now. If you follow the link and get an error, just try again a little

2002-07-22T17:00:00.000+02:00

Photos from Ian’s farewell weekend are up in the gallery. Go take a look.

2002-07-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

First off, to all those that have been nagging me to update my site: FUCK YOU! I’m so sick of being hounded by “when are you going to be updating your site?” Fuck that, really. I do it when I get a chance or when *I* feel like it!, not on any rigid schedule or system of guilt. And I know you all mean well, but this is how it works. I’ve been feeling pretty down most of the week; in some kind of

2002-07-01T17:00:00.000+02:00

I’ve been loyal to MTN for a number of years now, and have given them a lot of my money. My ex-girlfriend, Bridget, thought they were so cool that she worked for them for a while… so naturally when the time came for me to get myself a cellphone, I went with them on their Pay as You Go offering. I promoted them whenever I got the chance, because I believed they offered a good service; I secretly

2002-06-25T17:00:00.000+02:00

Another brief announcement just to say that the photos from Natalie’s surprise trip to Cape Town on the 16th of June are up in the Gallery. Thanks to Acidman for bringing the camera.

2002-06-24T17:00:00.000+02:00

This is just a brief announcement of Tor’s new Website — welcome aboard, it’s good to have you along for the ride!

2002-06-23T17:00:00.000+02:00

Another week, another update — you know the drill. And what a week it’s been! Once again there were rushed work-days (particularly so because of the 4-day week). I managed to complete the new GrandWest Website early in the week. At the moment that’s undergoing copy-checking and then hopefully can go live. I think the bigger accomplishment this week was coding a tricky CI guideline section of the

2002-06-17T17:00:00.000+02:00

Not only is today a public holiday, but more importantly, it is my good friend Tam’s birthday. For those of you that don’t know yet, Tam’s over in the UK for a month or so on holiday, catching up with some of her friends over there. Tam, I sincerely hope that your time over there is enjoyable. We’re missing you already…Happy Birthday.It must be a sign of how quickly time is moving — once again,

2002-06-09T17:00:00.000+02:00

So, it’s been 5 days since my last post and a lot longer since my last decent post. Apologies to all my regular readers for the recent lack of attention that I’ve been giving to my site. The truth though is that there hasn’t been anything of interest to write about lately. What I can tell you is that I went back to work about 2 weeks ago and that it’s really good to be back and to be surrounded

2002-06-04T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, it’s been a while, but I’m still around. Haven’t been doing much. I’ll write a better posting soon, but for now chat to warrenski-Bot by clicking the link on the left.

2002-05-26T17:00:00.000+02:00

To all the spambots out there: good luck trying to harvest my (or anybody else’s) email address off this site.Would like to wish Tam good-luck with the essay she’s busy tackling tonight; hope you don’t stay awake all night with that, again. I’d also like to give a shoutout to Acidman: glad that you’re not shutting down the sewer or anything like that; it’s good to see you making some comeback

2002-05-25T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, well, well — I’m still receiving feedback email regarding my recent ‘What ever happened to…?’ and ‘peculiar teachers’ postings. Infact, these are probably the most successful posts ever made on warrenski.com!One person that I never referred to, and who I never really got to know at school, is Richard Stopford. Richard, just want to say thanks for the mail and for updating me and everyone

2002-05-24T17:00:00.000+02:00

Through the wonders of CSS, this site is now fully printable! Not even half-an-hour worth of work to achieve that — CSS, you rock!Nothing much has been happening here today. Have been emailing a few people which has been fun. Also, have just been preparing myself for work again on Monday: burning CDs of stuff that I need to take with me. On Wednesday I had some coffee with Jackie here in Table

2002-05-22T17:00:00.000+02:00

First things first: I’ve had to take down the SMS section of the site since it turns out that MTN limits me to sending out a maximum of 5 messages a day, and VodaCom seems to give really obscure problems with their service. Unfortunately, this section of the site will have to remain closed until I can find a reliable way of delivering SMSs.LOL — I just phoned my work extension now-now to speak to

2002-05-21T17:00:00.000+02:00

Chris sent me an email with regards to the recent posts that I’ve made about school teachers/memories. First up, a correction to my post:…to correct you, Wayne threw a naartjie at Damien in Biology and then the same day threw the guava (not rotten, but trust me it was bad enough) at me… we were merrily tossing papers across the class (Wayne was all the way on the other side) when Wayne discovered

2002-05-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

Fuuuuck!! Damn you traffic-pigs, damn you you stupid bitches! You got nothing better to do on a Saturday night, huh? Man are you going to laugh when you hear the story I have for you…How’s this — I haven’t been behind the wheel for 7 weeks now… until tonight. I wanted to get my car going again because it’s been standing for all that time and the alarm was no longer working. So, I got my dad to

2002-05-17T17:00:00.000+02:00

In yesterday’s post I mentioned the possibility of doing a posting on peculiar teachers. Thanks to Sherry, who sent me some great content, I think that’s now a ‘go’:Peculiar teachers — oh boy, did Table View High have it’s fair share of those in the late 80’s and early 90’s!Some of my personal favourite weirdo educators (be warned: at least one of these stories has an anecdote about weirdo

2002-05-16T17:00:00.000+02:00

If you don’t mind me saying so, I’ve got my site just where I want it, and this is why I like it so much:it’s really simple — no difficult navigation or obscure links.content is applicable, original, honest and sincere — you won’t find any philosophical bullshit about the meaning of life. You won’t find any hectic tech-talk trying to make my site appear more advanced than the next guy’s. All you

2002-05-14T17:00:00.000+02:00

Like many of you out there, I love getting email — especially the kind that makes me laugh out loud. Natalie sent me some email on Sunday that did just that. Her description of the rest of the group trying to have fun on their own, without our presence, had me rolling on the imaginary floor, that I’m now so familiar with. Yes Natalie, I too noticed how they’ve been faking those smiles in those

2002-05-13T17:00:00.000+02:00

For those of you that are completely blind or unobservant, I’d like to point out the new navigation on the left. Like I’ve said before, my site hasn’t got much depth, but at least it’s a start.I’ve uploaded all the photographs from the Easter weekend. Unfortunately, I still need to attach captions and add the photos to the search engine — I’ll get around to that, don’t worry.

2002-05-12T17:00:00.000+02:00

Mom, if you’re reading this — which is highly unlikely — Happy Mother’s day.With that out of the way, let me begin today’s posting. I was thinking a little bit over the weekend about what to write about, and something that came to mind was “What ever happened to…?”. You know — those people from school who you never see anymore: what are they doing with themselves these days? I sat down and did

2002-05-08T17:00:00.000+02:00

I started today’s post at around 4pm, but got as far as writing the date above before being whisked away by Tammy to get out the house for a while to go shopping at Canal Walk. I passed all the tests that Canal Walk threw at me, with ease: stairs, long distances, sitting down, standing around and climbing a steep hill — all a piece of cake. Huge confidence boosters. Tammy seems to be quite

2002-05-06T17:00:00.000+02:00

Sheesh, it’s been quite a while since my last posting. Strangely enough I don’t have much interesting news. All this being stuck at home stuff seems to be jeopardizing my site — I’m going to be losing visitors thanks to boring content! Anyway, here’s today’s attempt at some interesting stuff…Received an email from Ian Ferreira in New York. Ian used to work with me at Ogilvy up until about October

2002-04-24T17:00:00.000+02:00

First a big shoutout to Natalie. Spoke to Nat on the phone tonight — seriously missing partying it up with you! Soon we will… soon.Got some pictures of that ‘eventful day’ from Damien. I’ll put them all up in the gallery when I’m back at work, but for now here are a few to satisfy your curiosity.Check out the damage on the vertebrae outlined in red. Compare this to the other vertebrae.Natalie &

2002-04-19T17:00:00.000+02:00

Had a doctor’s appointment first thing this morning. The orthopaedic surgeon’s first words when looking at the wound he’d made in my back nearly 3 weeks ago was “great, it’s coming along nicely”. That’s about all he did really — take a look at the wound and check out how I’m walking. Next appointment with him is in June.Next it was the turn of the physio to take a look. She too was hugely

2002-04-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

I learnt the other day that people were still visiting my site daily while I was down & out, hoping for there to be some new content. Geoffrey told me that he came back to my site so often, that he could recite the first sentence of the posting of “the legendary Nick Shimmin” off by heart. That’s really encouraging.One thing you learn when you’ve been on your back for as long as I have now is

2002-04-16T17:00:00.000+02:00

Well, after my leave of absence — thanks to a silly accident that cost my medical aid thousands — I’m back. I won’t be updating daily, possibly not even frequently, but I’m back nonetheless. While I’ve got the opportunity, I’d just like to do a very general thank-you to everyone who supported me by being there during it all, bringing me gifts and visiting and also to everyone that worked on me or

2002-03-28T17:00:00.000+02:00

You’ve all heard me speaking about the legendary Nick Shimmin. Today I got a call from Mr. Shimmin all the way from the USA… nice nice nice. You know when people go away and before they go they’re say cliched things like “ja, don’t worry I’ll be emailing you all the time, it’s not like it’s goodbye” and then you never ever hear from them — even when you write to them constantly? I’m sure you’ve

2002-03-26T17:00:00.000+02:00

Sorry people, seems like I’m slacking off a bit here on my site. As I’m writing this, it’s 19:55 and I’m still at work so I’m not going to be writing an awful lot. Really want to, but don’t feel like it. Most of all I want to give you all a detailed report on my weekend, but for now you can check out the photos at the gallery.You know what never ceases to amaze me: the way people pile work onto

2002-03-22T17:00:00.000+02:00

Ok, I’m in a hurry. This is just going to be a short post to let you know that the 2 sets of braai photos are up. There are the ones from Damien’s braai and from last week’s braai at Ian’s house. How bizarre, I’m off to ANOTHER braai tonight — this time Chris & Laura play host at their place in Somerset West. Later we’re heading through to Stellenbosch to Brollocks. Gonna be really cool.Got a

2002-03-20T17:00:00.000+02:00

Wow, lots to chat about today. Let’s get started…First up, I owe Evan Rose a mention. I helped him out the other day with an Apache server setting. We’ve been emailing each other a bit about the state of the Web and he’s a really cool guy. I think the most refreshing thing is that having read that I’m from South Africa, he didn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that we’re living in the bush

2002-03-19T17:00:00.000+02:00

I sat here today brainstorming with Tor over a few ideas to write about. We hosed ourselves. Came up with a few, but nothing that really jumped at me. If you don’t know what I’m on about: I’m going to be writing about the things we all do/think, but never really think much about. I’m going to be titling this “Word, bitch!”Like for example… why the hell do you wake up in the morning with sleep in

2002-03-18T17:00:00.000+02:00

So, we went to go check out the Sandcastle’s that we’re built on Camps Bay beach yesterday in the annual competition. Most of them were quite dissappointing.Today was relatively quiet at work again. Spent some time making baby-steps on my own sites. I managed to get URL re-writing going on my photo gallery. Nothing big, but now you’ll be able to link to images/albums a lot easier instead of