APPETISING - Blogging about Cheese, Wine, Beer and Food.

This blog by the Formaggio Kitchen really does focus on these delicious foods.

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Makes me wonder if its not a better idea than mine that focus on Food Technology and House in Burgundy? The kinks are there fermented foods and Burgundy as a centre of gastronomy, but....

AFRICANISED AGAIN - A Day Later Nigeria Delay The Elections Again!

It gets more and more laughable. After delaying the election for two days, they have now been delayed for a week just the day after the first delay.

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Not only that, apparently polls opened and voting started on Saterday, even after polling had been officially postponed!

Sounds like LAGOS CHAOS!

AFRICANISED - Nigerian Election Delayed

Its quite amazing how Africa seems to manage to AFRICANISE elections!

First a president is duly beaten in the polls, but says no I'm not going. Although everyone sees the feeble corruption attempt of the election authorities and calls on him to leave, months later he's still there and people a dying! AFRICA can't do anything! Imagine the world's sniggers - but at least Africa didn't tell the corrupt winners and the loosers to form a joint government a la Zimbabwe & Kenya!

Now even more comical

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Yes its true - Nigeria wasn't able to get the ballot papers delivered on time, so the election was put off for two days.

And these same people ask to be taken seriously! It would be hilarious if nobody was effected, but people die because of this nonsense.

IGNORING The Solid White LIne - Ferrari Homepage

This was online on the Ferrari Homepage on 26 March 2011 at 11:30 CAT.

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A PETITION - Lets Stop The Wastefulness at Zuma's Pretoria House

R 200 000 000 is just too expensive! and includes R 62 million for a private hospital, while Chris Hani Baragwanath (Africa's biggest hospital) is without a CAT scanner.

ADMITTING - Zuma Admits The Need to Improve Government Capacity

In responding to numerous complaints about his government not having the capacity, to implement the plans the ANC lead government is trying to get formalised and agreed, Zuma said:

"A number of honourable members questioned the capacity of the state of carry out the undertakings we have made. We would like to assure this house that we have been putting systems in place to improve the performance of the state.

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An admission that they don't have the capacity and are now, decades after taking power, putting in place systems to "improve" not even solving the shortcoming!

A real no commitment statement which reflects how this government operates! As it grinds on planning, facilitating, compromising and talking!

APPETISING - UNESCO's Addition To Its Cultural Heritage System

Here it is "The gastronomic meal of the French"

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Its not intangible at all, every time you participate your senses are rewarded. I guess it means that there is not one you can go and see!

A PHEASANT or 35 million of them!

This really opened my eyes when I heard it on the BBc Farming Programme!

What would the answer be to the question, how many pheasant are there in the wild in England?

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The answer is around 10 million just before the start of the hunting season and around 45 million at the start of the hunting season.

This is because 35 million pheasant are bred just to lift the numbers to accommodate all those who wish to hunt pheasant. It is agreed that about 60% of the pheasants released avoid the hunters and therefore become "wild" last a year. According to British Association for Shooting and Conservation these are birds "without life skills" which won't survive in competition with the real wild pheasants. Conservationists have noted these pheasants competing for easy food with other birds and providing easy victims for raptors and foxes all of which they claim is effecting wildlife in the UK.

So not only do the UK hunt canned pheasant but they also condemn tens of millions of pheasants a year to an untimely death in the wild.

APPLETASTIC - Apple Mac App Store - South Africa?

I wasn't sure how this would be launched in South Africa, after all we are still waiting for the iPad and have no music or games in iTunes!

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So on the 6th I periodically looked to see what, if anything, was happening. Eventually I picked up the availability of Mac OS X 10.6.6 through Software Update and started trying to download it. With South Africa's poor broadband capacity, this was promising me downloads in eight hours. Downloads terminated frequently loosing whatever data had been downloaded, making the chance of downloading the complete programme slim. So I went to the Apple website and found the update there - this I was able to download and launch without problems in a few hours and I had it installed!

Since then I have bought iPhoto and downloaded several free programmes including Twitter. I have found the process really simple and think this is another Apple winner!

Thats not to say all is great! - my reviews and ratings don't seem to get published, a game I downloaded (on another country store) was really useless, iPhoto 11 has some inexplicable changes that take much getting used to after iPhoto 8 and it was not possible to register iPhoto, only iLife.

Today, I have effortlessly updated the Twitter app after seeing an update was available. This is surely one of the things that is going to make the app store popular. I have also noticed that some of the applications I bought before the App Store show up as installed, so I suppose I will be able to update them here!

Seems like Apple have done it again!

INACCURATE / INEPT - So Which of These Four Government Bodies Would You Follow

Seeing that this is where you end following the link on the Department of Transport's homepage,

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But each of the Government Bodies seem to have different information!

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So who should we believe? and WHY can't the SA Government simply get their information right!