About Marius

Owner of Henriska Technology and Project Manager by profession.

Back from a week in Belgium

I just returned from a week in Belgium on business.  What a great trip, the weather was probably the best that Belgium has seen in who knows how many years.  Daily temperature around 25 degrees.

I drank a lot of great beer, Leffe Blond, Duvel and who knows what else and all of it was great.  Nothing in South Africa can compare with it.  And then in the mornings to have great strong coffee to be able to get on with the day after all the beers of the previous evening.

And then the people is so friendly and looks like they have no worries in the world.

On my way back I flew on SAA and what a disaster.  The entertainment center did not work and they could not fix it and I sat the whole way next to the English old bag that could not stop chatting and kept on telling me how great England is and how crap the Irish is. 

Oh and can somebody answer me why Belgium woman is not fat.  I did not see any real fat and big Belgium woman.  All of them is good looking and have great bodies.  Must be all the cycling they do.  There must be more bicycles on the roads than cars.

Cannot wait for my next visit.

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Did he cheat or did he not?

The big question after this weekend’s Monaco F1 GP is whether Michael cheated during the last few seconds of qualifying.  Well he claims he did not, but can we believe him.  We all know how important it is to be on pole in Monaco. 

I believe he did cheat or lets rather say he deliberately stalled his car to prevent Alonso beating his time.  Before you all come shouting at me I just want to say that I am a Ferrari supported.

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Upgrade of blog from WordPress 2.0 to 2.0.2

I have upgraded my blog from using WordPress 2.0 to 2.0.2. If you encounter any problems then please let me know. At the same time I have installed and activated the Akismet plugin to handle all the spam comments I receive. Should you comment and it does not appear within a couple of hours then also let me know via my contact details. We really do not want legitimate comments get caught as spam.

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SA vs Australia on 12 March

Everybody says, what a great game of cricket.  Yes it was exciting and good that SA won but I do not think it was a great cricket game.  I always thought that cricket is a contest between bat and ball and yesterday that did not happen.  It was a one sided batting performance by both teams.  The bowling and fielding team had no say in the game and that cannot be good for cricket.  It was purely of entertainment value for the spectators, nothing else.

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Windows Live Messenger and gMail invites

I have a couple of Windows Live Messenger and gMail invites available.  If you want an invite then send me an email to marius.bock at gmail.com with either “Windows Live Messenger Invite” or “gMail Invite” in the subject line.  I will give them out on a first come first serve basis.  If they gone they gone!!!

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Eskom and Power from Koeberg

This is now getting ridiculous. Now the government (Alec Erwin) claims that is was sabotage that damages the one reactor at Koeberg to disrupt the elections of today.  Well this is just bullshit and does not make sense since the reactor was damage during November last year — a whole 4 months before the election.

This is a classic case where the government is covering up incompetence at Koeberg but what do you expect with all the affirmative action people that was appointed to run these critical organizations.  I have heard a little birdie whisper that the guy running Koeberg (yes he is an affirmative action case) earns in the region of R900 000.00 per month.

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Loss of my good friend

On Monday evening a close and good friend of mine, Stephen Jones, died of a heart attack. My sympathy and well wishes goes out to his family and friends. He was still in the prime of his live and as a well known photographer he does leave a lot of memories behind. Here is one of my favorite photographs.

Time is such a valuable and precious thing .. make sure that you make the best of every minute you have to your disposal.