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Steve writes (in an email):
Some of you may know Nomic, others probably not.
For those who don’t, in short it’s a game about changing the rules so that you can win. A longer explanation is at:
http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/GameOfNomic
So, I’m hoping to start Stellenomic, a game of Nomic primarily aimed at old and current Stellenbosch students, but feel [...]

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Ever notice how often couples look a little like one another? Or they have certain “features” (in terms of looks) in common? One possible theory is that people get used to their own looks, and consider themselves “good looking”, then when they recognize their own features in someone else, that person is good looking to [...]

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RSS feeds are evil! – as so succinctly pointed out by Stefan. (Now if I could only be certain of how to actually pronounce “succinctly” correctly… sometimes if I read a word often enough, I end up believing I know how to pronounce it, thinking I’ve actually heard it.)
I discovered a handful of great blog [...]

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Out of pure selflessness (of course), maybe I should be considering the US east coast instead of the west – I have to play my part to help balance these demographics…

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Comet McNaught

Originally uploaded by hugovdm.

The night before the Helderberg hike, Friday 19 January, I had an impromptu Comet (and Hamburger) Party, inspired by Willie. We were a group of seven. I discovered that my cottage can handle about seven. More than that would be problematic, [...]

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Leon’s Birthday Party, group photo 2

Originally uploaded by hugovdm.

Leon always has his birthday parties on top of some mountain somewhere. This particular party was held on Saturday 20 January, on top of Helderberg. I will probably be uploading a couple more soon, have a look at all my uploaded photos of Leon’s party.
I had a [...]

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This was originally posted to my Facebook Notes on 7 January – the race was obviously on 6 January:

I survived the Totalsports Challenge yesterday. It involved (distances approximate) 12km surfski, 1.5km swim, 50km road bike, 13km run, 13km K1 (paddling, racing kayak), 25km mountain bike, and to finish, a nice 9km run on the beach, [...]

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When writing, you ought to have some idea who you are writing for – keeping your audience in mind generally results in “better” writing. I suspect some bloggers just write the way they want to, and then naturally collect the audience that finds their blog interesting, making this mostly a moot point? In my case [...]

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My website was supposed to run on my own software, but I have grown impatient. I am tired of waiting until I have the time to finish my software. So, instead, I’m using blogger.com. This will encourage me to code an “importer” that makes it easy to migrate all my existing (blogger.com) content into my [...]

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