psykro’s phunhaus

With apologies to any German readers, but this is just funny…

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Christmas Sucks

As a PHP web developer I often come across badly designed web sites and rant (quietly to myself) about the lack of craftsmanship that still infests our local interwebs.

Finally however, someone out there has decided to make a public example of these sites in a humourous and truly South African way.

So pop on over to iarliking and view some truly horrendous attempts at an internet presence, that waste your time and their money.

It’s rare that a South African humour site causes me to break out in uncontrollable laughter, but todays Hayibo.com article really tickled my funny bone.

He added that the DA boasted numerous achievements that could not be matched by any other party.

“For example, out of all the party leaders who are white women called Helen, we’ve got the best one,” he said.

Classic stuff!

What is the similarity between teenager sex and hide-and-go-seek?

“Ready or not, here I come!”

Yesterday morning I went for my first Sunday morning run of the year. It’s been a while since I last went for a Sunday morning run, but it was the perfect weather for it and I woke up early enough (always a bonus).

As usual there were quite a few others out and about, runners, cyclists, dog walkers, all getting in their last exercise for the weekend.

What always amuses and interests me is how friendly most of these people are. I have yet to cross paths with another runner or cyclist that does not greet me with a friendly smile and a warm (or sometimes out of breath) “Morning!” as they pass my way. And its pretty infectious, as I find myself greeting others who I probably would give a second thought to were I merely crossing their path in a busy street.

It’s as thought because we all sacrifice that early part of our Sunday (and the sleep/tv/lazing about that usually goes along with it) we now belong to an exclusive, select group. You can almost feel those who have been doing this for years are encouraging the newbies on, while at the same time the newbies are grateful for their inclusion into this select group.

It’s almost like an old boys club, but with less alcohol and more sweat…..

For those who may have followed this blog (v 1.0, before it got fried) last year I was at a point where I could run a 5km distance without my heart pushing up through my lungs, jumping out my throat and rolling down the road without me. (if you knew me you would know how much of an acheivement that was for me).

Well I have decided its time I get back into that frame of mind, and also continue the weight loss/fitness gain I was able to acheive last year. With that in mind I went trawling on the interwebs to find a lunchtime workout that I would be able to manage. What I found has more than exceeded my requirements.

SimpleFit is more than just an excercise routine, its also a nutrition guide, progress monitor and support community. It’s run by a ffg (former fat guy) like myself who has created a simple yet amazingly effective workout routine that can be managed in under half an hour. I have only been doing it for about two weeks and I can already feel the difference.

Add to that the Couch-to-5k plan that I am starting up again and the thrice weekly jiu-jitsu classes, I rekon I am well on my way into a fitter, healthier 2009!

As a recent convert to Ubuntu, due mainly to the existence of Windows Vista, I find this morning’s xkcd cartoon rather appropriate….

This post was supposed to be published ages ago, but life, as it has the habit of doing, intruded once more. So now I’m a week late. (What else is new)

Anyway, this blog is mainly just a simple little record of my life upon the earth. I have no idea whether I will ever post anything of value to anyone here, nor if anyone will actually read the damn thing, but hey sometimes people do things for no reason at all.

Either way, you are welcome to pop in from time to time and see what I am up to.

At the moment I am getting myself back into training and exercise the hard way, so right now every muscle in my body is screaming out for sleep.

So that’s what I am going to do. G’night.

P.S. If you are bored enough to want to read some other (slightly) less random thoughts of mine, pop over to jiujitsu.co.za or php-developer.co.za.

New year, new blog, old me….

As I was dumb enough to post almost nothing for about three months, my free hosting account was cancelled and I lost all of my previous content. Not that anyone was interested in this little blog anyway, but it’s still a sad thing for me.

Anyhoo I’m back on the web, and would love to tell you all about my life again, but its 10:15 and I have to go to work tomorrow.

(I am a new Wordpress 2.7 installation. My owner decided instead of deleting the first default post, to change the wording so that at it’s least something interesting.)

Insert something interesting here.

(Pity he has no imagination whatsoever!)