Waking up early and Traffic

For those of you that are interested there is now a south african overlay available for Google earth

http://earth.southafrica.net/

I don't know how much extra you will be seeing other than 2010 Soccer World Cup specific things. At any rate it is good to see the progress in this area. Unfortunately most of the country is still pretty much only available in low-res images.

Technology and time wasting

I'm a bit of a nutter for technology and as such I spend a fair amount of time reading articles online (sometimes this reading time will bring out the anger in the wife). It is actually a bit of an obsession and can sometimes lead me to the point where I cannot remember what I began researching - damn the net :-).

Some of my favourite sites to waste time include:

http://www.myadsl.co.za (Broadband News)

http://news.google.co.za (General News)

http://www.youtube.com (Frivolous time wasting site)

http://www.wiiza.co.za (Love my wii)

Let me know your thoughts.

What is fuelling the oil price?

You know I wish there was a way that we could stop being reliant on fossil fuels. I mean look at this article from 2004 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3708951.stm) from the BBC trying to explain why oil prices are so high - back when it was $50 a barrel. Look forward four years later and we are hovering at around $130 a barrel.

Now I am fortunate on the one hand that I do not pay for my own petrol but what about the price of diesel. This has a direct impact on the price of groceries, which in turn fuels inflation. I bought a house at the beginning of the interest rate increases. I am now paying around R4500 more per month than I was paying two years ago.

Hopefully we will make it through the 200 basis points and some further fuel hikes.

Lets keep positive :-)