manulite delite

A brief update

2011-01-21T16:22:00.001+02:00

Hello. How are you doing? Me? I could be better. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving Zimbabwe right now, but my personal life has been, and still is, on the sucky side. I could talk about divorce and an ex wife who never quits, but I'm sure most of you would be like, move along pal nothing to see here. Its a well studied, documented and accepted social paradigm. So I wont get into that now. Back to

Years later

2009-06-15T16:22:00.003+02:00

It's been 3 years since I last updated this blog, and with what has been going on in Zimbabwe, that much silence might mean the dude's no more. But no, I'm alive, I've survived the worst Zimbabwe ever, and I'm still here with the scars to prove it. The last time I was here, bread was like what? $100,000.00? And I thought that was bad!After a while it got to a point where complaining about life in

Street friend

2006-04-21T16:46:00.001+02:00

I consider Simon as my friend. We sort of hang out together each time we bump into each other in town. He's much shorter than me, which of course is explained by the fact that he's much much younger than me. We both live in Zimbabwe so that gives us a lot in common. But Simon practically survives on the streets. Though he doesn't necessarily sleep on the street at night, his life is a life lived

Hundrend Thousand Dollar Bread

2006-04-12T15:37:00.000+02:00

Several times when someone discovers I'm from Zimbabwe, I immediately get questions like, “So, how are you surviving?”, “So, how's Zimbabwe these days?”. How's Zimbabwe? If you are hopeful, your answer to that question, ranges between, “Not so good.” and “Don't ask.”. The price of bread is up again from about $60,000 to at least $88,000, which is not news anymore. I remember a time long ago when

Bad Day

2006-03-31T09:48:00.000+02:00

There are times when you think you are having a very, very bad day. Then there are times when bad days are in season. Of course bad days can be a result of a number of various causes. For example schools are closing in a few days time. That's an obvious bad day coming your way right there, because it means in a month's time you need school fees. So though Easter is somewhere in-between schools'

A New day in the life of a Zimbabwean

2005-07-07T20:57:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I caught a cold and today I woke up with a cramp; it isn't very comfortable sleeping at a friend's couch with one blanket in this cold winter. Of course you might already be asking why I'm sleeping on a couch, well, the thing is, this is not my house and it is crowded as it is. So maybe again you ask why I'm not sleeping in my own house? Good Question!See my cottage was demolished by

Redefining my position

2005-04-17T21:59:00.000+02:00

Last Year I wrote a "thank you" message (its there somewhere on the internet!) to all the people who had been in my life the last 20 something years, its so unbelievable that a year has already past. This time I'm turning a year older and a lot of things have changed. I've met new wonderful people, my relationships with some of my close buddies has sort of faded, and more sadly there is one

Lobola: The fears of a single guy

2005-02-08T20:18:00.000+02:00

Seeing that I'm already in my mid 20s, I'm more and more flirting with the idea that someday I will be married (and hopefully get divorced). Now that's a bit funny cause I used to tell myself that I could do without the hassles of marriage. I could actually, so I thought, do without the hassles of a "formal" relationship. But hey, being where I am now, I think differently, I now need

sometimes

2005-01-14T04:46:00.000+02:00

sad. very sad. sometimes life sucks, in fact, from where i'm standing, life sucks all the time. i'm in no mood to blog sense right now, sometimes you think you have it all figured out, but it has a funny nasty little way of telling you to go *beep* yourself. sometimes you meet someone, and sometimes you really like that someone. i mean really really like them. sometimes you like them so much you

Yahoo! : The hatred continues

2005-01-12T13:38:00.000+02:00

This is Part II to I hate Yahoo! This time I'm getting myself annoyed by how the linux version of yahoo messenger sucks. Lets take a look at the current version on messenger which I have running on my desktop. Pretty neat ha? To think that this comes from the same people who gave you the windows version that everyone so much loves! This has to be the most basic IM client I have ever seen.

Not Listed on Google

2005-01-04T03:12:00.000+02:00

I have just noticed that a couple of weeks after I've set up thisblog, I still am not indexed on google.A quick search using the same query on Yahoo, Google and Altavista isa bit disappointing. but I think Yahoo and AltaVista share somethingin common, the results look the same. But what sucks even more is thatit seems every other tom dick and harrySearch engine brings up thissite except

Feels strange at times

2005-01-04T02:14:00.000+02:00

Born at the end of colonization, I grew up in what they called the post-colonisation era, I understand some people out there dont know how it is to be colonised, but my parents, and grandparents will tell you how it is to be at the bad end of it. I'm more tolerant of things like "unity", "togetherness", "freedom" and all the other buzz words simply because I really did not see with my own two

Heard from the slashdot vine

2004-12-31T11:34:00.000+02:00

I heard the following comment on slashdot and I thought it was a cool way of dealing with the windows to linux migration. The peeps were talking about Microsoft not being worried about Firefox! So try this approach, I use it. Setup an X server with a pretty desktop. Tell the users "We'd like to enable you to work faster. From this point forward, just doubleclick this. We installed a new

Rules That Guys Wish Women Knew

2004-12-31T00:33:00.000+02:00

I got this from an email forward and I thought why not post it to here as well.1. Crying is blackmail.2. Ask for what you want. Subtle hints don't work.3. Don't cut your hair. Ever.4. Sometimes, we're not thinking about you. Live with it.5. Get rid of your cat.6. Anything we said six or eight months ago is inadmissible in an argument.7. Anything you wear is fine. Really.8. Christopher Columbus

I hate Yahoo! [Part I]

2004-12-30T23:50:00.000+02:00

Having moved from M$ Windblows to linux, one starts getting frustrated by all things Micro$oft. You will hate a site that is "optimized for IE 6" and anything that thinks Windblows is the only platform. I used to love Yahoo, I'm still attached to it in a big way, but it has slowly started to piss me off, especially when it fails to support the very things I like it for, on my Linux platform.

The number that I am

2004-12-30T23:33:00.000+02:00

I came across this site and i thought it was kinda funny. Here are my results for the "Whats your number?" quiz You Are the Enthusiast 7 You are outgoing and playful - always seeing the happy side to life. You're enthusiastic and excitable. You love anything new. Multi-talented, you do many things well... and find success

The Invites still unused

2004-12-30T11:42:00.000+02:00

I still have the 3 invites that I offered the day before christmas. Just let me know why I should give them to you that's all! i am manulite

Converting PDF files to html (or text)

2004-12-30T11:06:00.000+02:00

Have you ever wanted to convert your pdf documents to html? Have you then tried to google for a pdf converter and came up with a thousand sites where you download a trial of this or a trial of that? I did that before, and in one of my google results it managed to send me to what then seemed like the most obvious place one would try first; the Adobe site! They have an online tools

Some Gmail Invites for Christmas

2004-12-24T13:01:00.000+02:00

I have a couple of Gmail invites (again!) and I'm feeling in a good mood. I'm giving away 3 invites to any 3 people, just tell me why I should give it to you.

Another language, another blog

2004-12-21T14:42:00.000+02:00

Seeing how i go on and on about being african i've sat down and did some thinking, I need a blog in shona, so what i'll do is start another one, this one purely in shona, and the thing is, i'll translate all the posts to this blog. you can check it out on manulite.blog.com. i am manulite.

Of Spam, blogs and google

2004-12-21T01:27:00.000+02:00

A few days after starting this blog, someone sends me an email to my faithful yahoo and it goes hi manulite, i saw yo blog at blogspot, and i was wondering are you really from africa? did you grow up in a typical african village? do you think we could be friends? i'd like to learn more about african cultures... regards, xxx So i quickly run to this site thinking damn, my email is

The 12 things of Christmas...

2004-12-17T23:46:00.000+02:00

...that I've only read in books and watched on TV. 12. We definately did not have "The 12 days of Christmas"... and if you could kindly stop confusing me about whether it comes before or after. 11. The fireplace. When I was growing up, the "fireplace" was what you normally call your stove, and your grill, and your oven. The cooking was done on the fireplace, stuffed stockings had no business

Introductions

2004-12-17T20:06:00.000+02:00

Sometimes the Internet makes me feel strange. Strange because I sometimes think that it is amazing. Amazing in that 5 years ago I would have not imagined what it does for me. It sends my emails (an I actually get a reply), it sends them fast, so fast my grandma could not understand it when I tried to explain to her. Recently it has also debugged my Java application, umm, that was after it had

Moving In...

2004-12-17T18:38:00.000+02:00

If you come to think of it, this was way overdue. Give me a while to figure out this whole system.