This is a piece commissioned and significantly influenced by Michiel Victor.

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Macro scaping micro code
strings attached and integers
a babble of Booleans
got to love it
to make them love it
black an white and
and any other color you want
frankly
I dig it
strings attached and integers
just a babble of Booleans
got to love the bright side the dark side
the inside and every other side you and your screens of choice can see
frankly

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Got this sms from ‘Rico Q’ last night.

I find Woody Allen so uplifting i’m gonna start a new cult wi him as saviour of lost souls:

our surrealist who art in brooklyn, harrowed be thy blame, thy filmdom come, thy skill be famed in hollywood as it is in france, give us today our daily comedy, and forego us our theatre tickets, as we share popcorn wi those who whisper out loud amongst us, and usher us not into the dingy seats, but deliver us from boredom, for thine is the filmdom the humour and great storyline forever on celluloid, amen.

I love it. He’s agreed to let me rig up a blog for him. Watch this space… :->

Arbivations: Those rare quality-of-life experiences only attainable through spontaneous indulgence in open-ended arbitrariness.

Last night, once the little one was snug in bed and we’d had our dinner I turned off all the computers, even the amplifier and the study’s lights. Lit a solitary candle posed on the mantle piece above the fireplace. Poured a glass of not entirely unpleasant red wine and sat down on the couch next to Je’anna.

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a link in a post from a blog to a specific post in another blog (like this), which then gets showed as a comment in that blog. It is standard procedure to list the address that the post will reside at (also called a permalink) in archived as a link called ‘trackback’.

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The charming Graham Knox  of Stormhoek fame, we had a great chat about advertising agency stuff etc. and met up again a the SA Blog Awards last Friday. He and Harvey, the old-school geek that makes Steve Hofmeyer’s blog tick (Groot geluk met die twee toekenings!) joined myself and Brianne for a late dinner at a venue slightly more sedate than CoolRunnings. Thanx  guys really enjoyed it!

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Some snapshots from last sunday.

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