Aquila Online

Following on from my blog’s anniversary earlier this month, I’m finally ticking over another chapter in my life and celebrating my birthday today.

Finally, just a quick shoutout to Soccergirl, who also celebrated her birthday this week.

Congrats babe – I heared it was a good one!

So next time someone tells you to go to Hell, you know exactly where to go.

The article published on page 2 for the edition ending Sept 23, entitled Joburg bans cars for a day, states:

“No cars will be allowed on Johanneburg roads on October 20. This was revealed at the Randburg property owners’ meeting last week by a city consultant. According to the plan, cars will be barred from accessing major public roads on that day.
Chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar of Metro police said offers from Gautrans, SA police and Metro police will be out in full force to enfore the Joburg car-free day.

…We want to ensure that by 2010 residents of Joburg are familiar with public transport…”

I would agree with Ali Chicktay, constitutional law lecturer who commented that “should this be compulsory, it would be a voilation of various rights, including movement, trade and occupation and property.”

Just imagine the impact something like this will have on the economy – everyone stranded for a day. Our public transport is definitely not up to scratch and I have no doubt that it will not be able cope with the additional number of commuters, should something like this be instituted.

The topic of a car-free city seems to be going strong since 1997. Hardly attainable though.

The guys from Joblog may just survive this day – they can use their Segways for transport.

Watch this space.

The show stars Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkens and Kevin Nealon and exposes the dirtly little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns ans shiny closed doors of homes in the fictional town of Agrestic, California. Sound slightly familiar?

Anyhow, I tried to go to the website, but was confronted with this little gem: “Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States.”

However, thanks to Google Cache you can at least get the frontpage here.

You can subscribe to the podcast by pasting the following link into your podcasting application.
http://sho.com/site/downloads/rss/weeds.xml (link seems to work fine)

I think the guys from Doobskyf whould be proud – though they’ve been MIA since April.

Go check it out…