What isn't this about?

This is a boring site.

There is no porn to be found here. There is no pirated software. There are no lists of credit cards and no tips on robbing banks. There are no constuction details for weapons (except for napalm, which is incredibly easy to stir up in the comfort of your own home: stir pieces of polystyrene into a jar/vat of petrol; the polystyrene dissolves; keep doing this until the mixture is saturated and syruppy and the polystyrene simply refuses to melt any more; hey presto -- you have napalm; NB: don't try this in the comfort of your own home -- the stuff's dangerous and can cause severe damage to everything). There are no contact details for spies, enemies of the state, public officials, hitmen or tightrope walkers. There are no recipes for narcotics, antibiotics, poisons, aphrodisiacs, antiretrovirals or any other drugs (unless you consider napalm to be a drug) -- nor are there any leads to druglords, dealers, traffickers or manufacturers. There are no instructions for defrauding telelphone companies, stealing cars, decrypting FBI messages, building radio equipment, hacking other sites (but feel free to hack this one if you know how), focusing laser beams, fixing computers, launching rockets, intercepting submarine tracking data or cloning human beings. I don't even have a list of my top ten practical jokes or twenty things to do before I die (since doing them after I die may produce certain logistical problems).

This is a boring site

So, if you came looking for any of the above you may as well turn back now.

What is this about?

Most people about whom I care, and most people that at least put in a smidgin of effort to pretend to care about me, live in and/or around Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, St Louis, Israel, Perth, Melbourne and London. Anything that I declare to be of the remotest interest to any of these people goes here. Anything that I decide is of remotest interest to other carbon-based life form in this universe also goes here. My site for non-carbon-based life forms is, as of now, still under development. None of these people has anything to do with any of the activities mentioned above, with the possible exception of Fluffy (pronounced "floofy", as in "book"), my bonsai tree.

So without much further ado, I challenge you to let me know if you find anything that has the faintest whiff of interestingness to it.

What is here?

Some brilliant anagrams	Self-explanatory really.
Death	A cartoon from a Las Vegas newspaper in the last couple of days of 1999.
Zanizar pictures	Pictures from Zanzibar -- an archipelago just off Central Africa. I was there with Nick Meyersfeld and Jenny Sturdy in July 2000. Take particular note of 'stonetown6.jpg' taken by Nick Meyersfeld -- it won second prize in a South African photographic competition.
Kruger National Park pictures	Pictures from the Kruger National Park -- a South African nature reserve. April 2000.
Organ Pipes 1999 Tale	Photos and the corresponding story from a hike in the Drakensberg (Organ Pipes to Ndumeni Dome). July 1999.
Organ Pipes 2000 Photos	Photos from a hike in the Drakensberg (Organ Pipes to Ndumeni Dome). July 2000.
Cowl Gap Photos	Photos from a hike in the Drakensberg (Cowl Gap). April 2001.
The Chronicles of the Four Frangelicos	An illustrated tale of three friends and me stumbling around the USA. December 1999 -- January 2000
Chains	From 1995.
The Incompleteness of Relgion	God is sustained by the uncertainty of his own existence (with due hommage to and with the greatest respect for Kurt Godel)
Who Am I?	Excuse the mushy title -- that was the only requirement that I stuck to. Written for a sociology class in 2000. Could be aptly renamed, in hommage to and with the greatest respect for John Irving, The World According to KP.
Sex	Ayn Rand's doctrine on sex. So far it is the only piece of literature that has made me envious for not having written it myself.
Telkom	A letter I received from the monopolistic telecommunications provider in South Africa. No trick photography, no airbrushing, this is the real thing.
Posen's Differential Limiting Productive Complex Exponential Attractiveness Theorem	A theorem that I proved during a week of science classes. Uses calculus and discrete math to prove conclusively that the sum of attractive of all females throughout the universe is the same always.
The Long Road to Thurther	Article by Mark Cohen and myself for the annual magazine of the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS).
No Good Riddance for Skilled Graduates	A letter to a South African newspaper published Tuesday, February 6, 2001. I had nothing to do with the title -- the paper did that.
Living in New York	An extract from Douglas Adams' The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
AIDS and HIV	For anyone who might ask "So, what is the state of SA politics these days?" Take a listen to our esteemed minister of health, Dr Manto Tshabala-Msimang, battling it out with John Robbie, a talk radio host. If this doesn't leave you incredulous then you're spending too much time in 3rd-world countries. (Note that this is about 2 MB, so it might take a while to download).