Monday, March 23, 2009

Ubuntu rocks!


I use Ubuntu 8.10 as may main operating system and I love it! I still use Windows XP for certain jobs, but prefer Ubuntu. The chage over was quick and painless.

Windows XP cost just over a R1000.00 rand, Ubuntu cost nothing (except for the coffee I drank whilst waiting). I went to the Freedom Toster at Canal Walk, stuck in my 8 gig memory stick and downlloaded it. Total cost: a bus ride to the mall, a cup of coffee. Surly the better bargain!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Politics sucks!

The elections are coming up soon. I will not be voting for COPE, they have a great manifesto but any party that can accept a person who stole from a charity that he was supposed to administer, is doomed.

The ANC supports the socialist principles that I believe in and Jacob Zuma is making a real effort to improve things, but no they will not be getting my vote.

I will vote DA because nationally, we need a strong opposition. I believe they are strong enough to take the Western Cape. When I turned 18 and voted in my first election, the DA was called the Progressive Party. The person who came canvassing my vote was also a first time voter, like myself. I remember the reason he gave me why I should vote Prog - "because South Africa needs a strong opposition to keep the Goverment on it's toes!"

I voted Prog/DA ever since then. I voted PFP when P.W. Botha appointed Davie de Villiers as Minister of Finance before he was elected to Parliament. There was a general election due at that time and de Villiers was made the Nationalist candidate for the Gardens, which should have been a safe seat. PW's sheer arrogance managed to piss people off and the Gardens became PFP.

The DA under Mayor Helen Zille have restored Cape Town to proud City it once was. The previous Mayor had turned Cape Town was running Cape Town into the ground.

Premier Rasool was doing the same to the Western Cape. Lyn Brown took over a disaster and things are starting to improve. It is unfortunate that the ANC did not see fit to make her the number one candidate for Premier, I might have reconsidered my vote for the Provincial Government.

I admire her because she never got into a sling match with Mayor Zille and they appear to have worked together for the great good of the Western Cape.

But yes, Politics sucks!