. Durbz Blog

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

I been tagged....

Eish, so it would seem a few more people are taking notice at what a pathetic blogger I am, so when I saw Michelle had tagged me, I thought I better do what needs to be done...so here goes...

Three screen names I've had: Gump, Gumpie,Marc(very original)
Three things you like about yourself: Humour, Friendly, ummm
Three things I don't like about myself: Weight, Weight, Weight
Three parts of my heritage: I have never found out anything interesting about heritage, I do recall something about my great gandfather having some connection to Ghandi, if that counts.
Three things that scare me: Small insects, creepy crawlies and spiders
Three of your everyday essentials: Wedding ring, Cellphone and wallet (even though its always bare)
Three things you are wearing right now: shoes, shirt & pant (jeanpant)
Three of my favorite songs: She says(Cutting Jade), Crazy over you(Zen Arcade), Mr Jones (Counting Crows) and tooo many more to mention
Things I want in a relationship: I got everything, and more !!
Two truths and a lie: In no particular order-> I still sometimes send my ex an sms... I once accidentley bumped into someones car and didn't tell them...I have tried drugs...
Three things I can't do without: Cellphone, Internet, My Daughter
Three places you want to go on vacation: Singapore, Disneyland, Dhubai
Three things you just can't do: Sing(I do try), Run (fast), swim in the sea(too sticky)
Three kids names: Mykae, Layla& Kayton
Things you want to do before you die: Bungee jump off bloukraans, Travel round the world, go on a cruise
Three celeb crushes: Kirsten Dunst, hmm I can't think of anyone, except her...aahh..
Three people you want to know these things about:
Rich...! from Jo'Blog - seen as he made the last comment on my blog
Ekapa - Nice Intersting Guy
The Salami from splattermail - Now this is where things could get interesting ??

Google Maps - Sightseeing SA

I Have decided that with all the cool google maps posts (from commentary guys, and cherryflava) goign on here in SA, it was high time for oue own "google sightseeing" tour in SA. So I have created another blog called Satellite ZA

Anyone can mail me some cool South African Landmarks, which I will attempt to add to the blog on a daily basis. You can mail me on satelliteza@gmail.com and I will try and post the landmarks....

See you on the maps... :)

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Google Maps Goes Global...

Ok, I suck. I have been rather slack and when Rich...! from Jo'Blog commented on my last post that I hadn't posted anything since May, I offically felt bad. So for the last few days, I have been trying to think of something to post, nothing...Nadda...Eish

Until I recieved this blog post from Google Sightseeing this morning, in my bloglines notifier. So I took a look around and chanced my arm with looking for South African Sattelite Maps. And what do You know....they are there...Amazing...Well not all of them are in Hi Res, so they not all that clear, but still its a step forward, which hopefully means Google Maps will eventually cover South Africa. I know I seem to be a google maps freak, but they are seriously amazing...

Some places in SA, I found so Far....

Durbz by de See (Not that great pic Quality, but you can still identify most things)
Pretoria, which is High - Res, which means you can zoom right down to street level, and even seem the Hollowed fortress of Loftus
Cape Town also seems to be a not so great with the Resolution, and the table cloth defenitley seems to be on top of table mountain ?

If anyone else comes across some cool places, leave a message in the comment...

Friday, May 27, 2005

'Penis-pulling' wife dies

News24 reports that the Penis-pulling wife died after jerking her husband's chain 1 to many times.
Shame poor guy...

"He is very remorseful. They have a child. But he could not bear to be woken up like that any more..."....I dont blame the poor oke...

OUCH !!

Monday, May 16, 2005

Bullle !!!

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Sorry to have to do this to all you Cape Town boys, but did u see that.
75-14, eish I'm sorry but that had to be the best game I have seen in a long long time.

Now hopefully, the crusaders will be making a hash of things, and then I think I will definetly be joining the Chump Boois at Loftus for the final of finals...

Go Bulle....

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Google Maps....again

Im Really fascinated with google maps, especially since they have added the sattelite imagery to the US maps. Trust some clever okes to see what they can find in the US. They even found Michael Jacksons Neverland !!!
Some intteresting sites for "google travelling":

Interesting Google Satellite Maps
Google Sightseeing Blog
Google Globe Trotting

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Google Does it again

Google has just launched Google Maps UK
So if you looking for a pint in norwhich or a sex shop in london, you know where to go.
No satellite Images yet, but know google, they will have them soon I'm sure.

We can only hope that one of these days South Africa will be included...*sigh*

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Hate SA ?

Came across this news article in the daily news here in Durbz yesterday.

I'm quite cheesed that someone can actually go and set up a website about hating a country. I haven't even bothered to find out what the website address is. All I can say to the punk is....F*&K you buddy...You suck...SA Rules...

Google Video Upload

Google have come up with another Brilliant Idea...Google Video Upload.
They now allow you to upload your videos in any format, and users can search and even purchase them later...WOW

I would just be worried about the salami searching for amateur porn videos....eish...

Thursday, April 07, 2005

New Pic's

Ahh, the bubba is getting old...some new pics...
2 Months Pics


Friday, April 01, 2005

F Fiing Martinengo

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This picture of the new F & Martinengo Show on 5fm looks really dodgy...
That smile on IanF's Face makes me wonder what they really do during the advert breaks ?

Need a Ride ??

Google just carries on amazing me...

Now they launched Google Ride Finder
You can see where any taxi currentley is in most Major US city's.
Need a ride in New York ?

Not that this would help us in any way in South Africa, but got me thinking that we would definetley need more maps if we had to plot where all the taxis's in South Africa were currentley...

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Ironic ?

From News24.com
1966
"On this day
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Nationalist Party wins a whites-only election in South Africa."


2005
"Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party's 25-year grip on power."

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Robot saboteur 'deserves death'

"The death penalty would be too mild a punishment for people who tamper with traffic lights, said the Christian Democratic Party..."
Robot saboteur 'deserves death'

Um dewd, get a life...(excuse the pun)
Serioulsy thinking of giving some dork who fucked around with street light(robot) a life sentence...There are rapists, muderers, thiefs and a whole lot of other riff raff in this country, but u reckon the dude who messed the robot, should die...

Serius ??

Thursday, March 17, 2005

SA Blog awards

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Tonight is the night where the winners of the SA Blog Awards will be chosen.
Events happening in Joburg, hosted by the Joblog boys and one in Cape Town Hosted by CherryFlava.

Have fun guys, pity nothing planned yet for Durbz this year, I think due to the fact thier aren't to many bloggers here, but Next year, we will definetley make a plan.

Get very high...

Came across this new SA blog today about 2 guys trying to set a new SA Hot Air Balloon Altitude record -> Two get very high

Turns out the one pilot is Lev David from East Coast Radio here in Durbz.
Could be interesting one to watch, so keep an eye on this blog..

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Samsung D500

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Ahh, I love every 2 years, even though its a wait, it means Vodacom UPGRADE Time.
So this year I opted for the new samsung SGH-D500
WOW...Is all I can say. It was a toss up between the Sony Erricsson S700i, I decided to take the D500.
And I'm really impressed. This is one of samsungs first phones with Bluetooth support, and after getitng me a new dongle, It works like a bomb. The only thing that you can't do, is upload Java Games. But I searched far and wide and Im glad to say that I found some real boffin, who decided to share his secret of how to do it.

Still got lots of playing to do, but if I come across anything interesting, I will make sure I blog it first :)

Here's to another 2 years of waiting :)

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Bill Gates to get Knighted

Aww, how sweet...
Bill Gates Meets The Queen

NOT !!!

I still wonder what the use of this is, except he can't even be called SIR in the states, and can only use the title K.B.E. (Knight Commander of the British Empire) in the states.

Shame...whats the use dork ?

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

How to become a Jew...

The boys over at splattermail have requested you support MTN by phoning them and listening to the funniest thing I have eard all year.
Ok, only kidding, We dont have to support MTN anymore if we dont want to cause I have the wav file in my possesion...Yeahaa...

TO download the funny Indian Jew wanna be, click HERE

Have Fun :)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Rate my...

After reading one of the best blogs for the day all about rating thongs & mullets, now comes a new
one.

WARNING --- Not for the Faint hearted

Rate My Poo !!!

Have fun...NOT ~!