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Linda

I think it's possibly down to Tim's guard outside Mopani (the really obnoxious one)

Northerners

For my next posting you will all need a Wind-up gramaphone (one with a nice scratchy needle).

Be prepared !

Arthur


Arthur Steevens [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Stockport, United Kingdom
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 23:39:53 (UTC)

Craig - as we have already seen on GNR, Mubita Nawa is nothing more than a con-artist on the make for a quick buck. I responded to his Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 01:14:44 (UTC) meaningless posting and the subsequent shameless promotion on GNR of his book by Anona Balloch on Monday, May 24, 2004 at 14:10:55 (UTC).
The charlatan Mubita even goes as far as to have himself depicted as Jesus Christ. A picture of him on his website, arms outstretched, replaces "T" in his name (Mubi-T-a) to appear as if he were the Christ. I find the latter particularly distasteful.
The only advantage I can see in his postings is that it allows the rest of us to see him for what he really is.




Glen Drake [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
California, United States
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 22:08:02 (UTC)

Tim Henderson (or anyone who can pass this message to him, please?)

I received your email this morning but when I respond back on the same email, I get an undeliverable message back. It has happened to all the other emails I have tried to send to you, or respond on yours.

It always says this:

The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

(reason: 550 5.7.1 Access denied)

Transcript of session follows:
while talking to pop3.zamtel.zm.:
MAIL From:
550 5.7.1 Access denied
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

Either you have blocked me (inadvertently of course.. grin) or there is still something that is not working on your email address?

Please contact me through the GNR contact below and I will try to resend by that method? Thanks.

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 21:01:23 (UTC)

Esther P, poking at something:
If you have nothing nice to say - then don't say it at all.
"A little rich I reckon"

So what do YOU have to say Esther baby? Were you particularly motivated by someone who walks in through the door spouting Ghandi, Newton, and God? Wouldn't you rather he addressed his history with Banklays Bark Zambia?

Sheesh, hardly a wonder we have 1689 lurkers around here.



Chris Tamm [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 18:50:33 (UTC)

Zambian Army Ants
Can anyone identify the two types of ant belonging to ( I think) the species of what I knew as Matabele Ant?
One type was the larger & apart from giving off an awful pong, imparted a nasty sting or bite. This type also seemed to roam in relatively small numbers.
The other smaller type specie moved about in large columns & if threatened, created a collective & loud warning buzz & woud attack any & everything in their path.

Talking of stings - has anyone experienced the sting of the Buffalo Bean bush found in the NR shlateen?

Bill Hunt [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Widenham, Natal, South Africa
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 18:44:43 (UTC)

Well Done Craig!
I know I speak for many when I say thank you for your continued contribution of time and energy - not to mention the lost revenue...

Sue Coughlan (née Forde) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, WA, Australia
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 15:07:51 (UTC)

Mubita,

Your post has nothing to do with Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, and seems to be little more than a promotion for a monthly newsletter of some kind. This is not a forum for the promotion of businesses of any sort, no matter how altruistic they may seem.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 12:31:25 (UTC)

Sorry, but this time I'm with Chris Tamm. Mutiba's posting is very far from relevant to this message board i.e. NOT Germane

Fiona Gayther (née Ferguson) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Tytherington, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 12:02:07 (UTC)

Recent Site Updates:

August 31st, 2004:
  • Made the full GNR membership list available once again. This will take a bit longer to download over slower connections. Maiden names have been left out of the list due to privacy concerns raised by some members, but upon the completion of the enhancements described below they will once again be available to members only, but not to the general public.
  • A multitude of other enhancements to the Names Directory, including privacy and usability enhancements, are in development. Many are completed, but can't be rolled out until all are completed because they are interconnected and rely on some fundamental changes required in the structure of the database. I hope to have these in place by the end of September.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 10:25:11 (UTC)

Chris Tamm

If you have nothing nice to say - then don't say it at all.
"A little rich I reckon"

Esther Pettersson [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Australia
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 05:59:05 (UTC)

Written each month by Author, Mentor and Motivational Speaker Mubita C. Nawa. 1-866-MCN-DEFY (626-3339)

Yawn! Calling yourself a motivational speaker? A little rich I reckon. Who might be your audience?



Chris Tamm [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 01:44:00 (UTC)

"Written each month by Author, Mentor and Motivational Speaker Mubita C. Nawa. 1-866-MCN-DEFY (626-3339)"


Mubita - my first friction is that Davis did not fight Goliath , maybe that was David's close relative ? Secondly , I had a DEFY refrigerator - do you sell them ?


Doug Waybush [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Maryland, USA, and London, England
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 01:19:40 (UTC)

UNLEASHING THE CHAMPION WITHIN

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world problems.”
Gandhi
“I am a champion not because I know I am, but because I am, therefore I can do it; it’s inherent”
Mubita C. Nawa

Isaac Newton’s first law of motion states that, ‘Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.’

In order for you to unleash the vast potential, power and purpose that God has for you, you have to set certain things in motion. You may have to increase some speed, work some numbers, make a move, or maintain your current state of motion.

Prayer is wonderful and powerful, but prayer alone (without the works) will not do it.

When Davis fought Goliath, he had to unleash the stones from his sling thereby knocking his challenger off.

Newton’s second law says ‘the relationship between an objects mass ‘m’, its acceleration ‘a’ and its applied force ‘f’ is F=ma. The champion in you needs proper direction. Where exactly are you going? Sometimes we are headed in the right direction (say East), but on the wrong road. There is a relationship in every decision you make.

Finally, the third law states, ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’. You cannot lift a 5-pound (2.2kg) object with equal or lesser strength. Some things that God is getting ready to do in your life may require a change in strategy. Don’t be caught up in the “this is the way its always done’ syndrome.

In order for the vision, the champion, and the leader in you to come out, you not only have to do certain things differently, you must be smarter, effective and efficient.

Don’t just do it right (being efficient) but do the right thing (being effective). Like Newton said, there will be opposition, friction, misunderstandings, fallouts and fall-ins. Just do it.

Friction is a part of the process. It’s embedded.

There is a champion in you, and that’s what matters. It does not start tomorrow, it starts today; UNLEASH THE CHAMPION.

Written each month by Author, Mentor and Motivational Speaker Mubita C. Nawa. 1-866-MCN-DEFY (626-3339)


Mubita Nawa [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Dallas, Texas, United States
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 00:34:16 (UTC)

Mugabe is a huge idiot and major pain in the arse.......but the common folk are very touching...

This concerns the white Zim swimmer Kirsty Coventry who won Gold and Silver and Bronze .....I love it !!!

"REPORTS FROM VARIOUS HOSPITALS AROUND ZIM HAVE SHOWN HOW KIRSTY HAS TOUCHED LIVES IN ZIM - NEW BORN BABIES "

Kirsty Moyo

Athens Phiri

Kirstee Koventree Kavamba

Backstroke Banda

Kirsty Coventry Mapurisa

Individual Medley Mbofana

Goldmedal Zulu

Gold Silver Bronze Ndlovu

Butterfly Masocha

Swimmingpool Nhanga

Freestyle Zuze

Coventry Mabhena

Breaststroke Musendame

Goldwinner Mambo

Threemedals Chinotimba

Doug Waybush [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Maryland, USA, and London, England
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 23:47:44 (UTC)

Chris Swart

Chris - thanks for latest update on Catherine. Keep our fingers crossed for a safe & swift recovery.

Gary

Gary Brassington [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Banbury Oxon, United Kingdom
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 22:22:17 (UTC)

Northerners...

Bill - notice how okies from BH now spell northerners :)...

Take a peek on ebay under NDOLA - six postcards up for grabs.

Also a real NR flag - search under Northern Rhodesia.

Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 16:28:52 (UTC)

I would like to contact Keith Coventry, Douglas Cantly, Timothy Atwell, and others. If anyone can help?

Thanks

Philip Dacre [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 13:30:42 (UTC)

Dear Craig ( massa of electronics),
Ouch! ;)
Just an old conservative.
Bill

William Knott [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 13:15:06 (UTC)

Mr Luckin,
he was a teacher in the early 60s at Jeppe High in J`burg then he moved to the Rennie in 63.
he had the beautiful old Buick straight 8 which claimed ran so smoothly you could place a glass of water on the head and hardly notice a ripple. I left the Rennie in 65 and heard no more of him.
Hilton

Hilton Williams [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Brisbane, Australia
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 10:17:52 (UTC)

The bullet was removed and Cath is stable.

Chris Swart [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Kitwe, Zambia
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 09:11:55 (UTC)

Hi Bob

My father-in-law, Mr Luckin, was a teacher, and taught
at many schools, many all of which I do not know.
He passed away just over 2 years ago. He had a
fantastic dry sense of humour, adored music and
reading, and was one of the first 9 people who ran the
first Comrades (Durban/Pietermaritzburg ). He was
a fitness fanatic, and no day was complete unless he
started it with a very long run, a swim and exercise.

Madeleine


Madeleine Luckin (née Bekker) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 06:18:04 (UTC)

Bill,

Good to hear from you. I thought you had gone the way of the Reform Party. :)

Peter,

I did play those numbers, but I am confused. I guess I'll take the ticket to the lottery stand and have them tell me if I won anything.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 05:27:15 (UTC)

G'Day Northeners,
Just to tell you all that I am alive and still lurking on the GNR daily.
(Gotta get a life.)
Other than that, Ottawa and the eastern Canadain climate is transitioning into Fall soon. The trees are just beginning to turn their leaves to gold, red and brown. Tells me that, although life goes on around the GNR - i.e. world, that the seasons presage another winter and year-end.
The southerners are emerging into spring tho' sandgropers may not notice any changes; the Olympics are over and we did shit as usual and .... so what.
Anyway, all you loverley ex-Northern Rhodesians/ Zambians who post all these messages about trivia - as this is - that it is real neat, eh guys, to read and keep it up.
Especially the doppelganger of one famous Beateous Matwetwe.
Bill

William Knott [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 00:12:50 (UTC)

Craig - O ye who doth not haveth faith in Microsoft...

Those Super7 numbers were good for two free tickets had you played them....

Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 23:13:35 (UTC)

Added Comment to GNR Names Directory and Search Engines

I meant to add that this is just one more reason to keep your Names Directory entry current with your current and working e-mail address. If "X" had not done so, I would not have been able to forward the message from his long lost cousin.

Peter,

I haven't downloaded SP2 for XP yet. I'm waiting for the rest of the world to discover the bugs first. :) Will do so when I get back to Vancouver in mid-September. Glad to hear it blocks pop-ups, but I wonder how long until people figure out ways around the blocking mechanism. Like spam, it's a never-ending arms race.

I hope your SP2 advice is better than the lottery numbers you posted a few days ago. :(


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 21:28:30 (UTC)

GNR Names Directory and Search Engines

I have just received the e-mail message below and have forwarded it to the GNR member in question -- who I refer to as X to maintain privacy. It illustrates a point I made earlier about the importance of the information in the Names Directory being available to search engines.

I am a cousin of X and whilst recently sorting family photographs found some of X and his parents taken in 1946 in Lusaka. We have never met and the last I heard anything of the family was in the 80's when his father, Y, my uncle, died in ... England.

Wondering what had happened to X I looked at the Google Web site, entered his name and there he was - the first item on the first Google page!!

Is it possible for you to give me his email address or if that is not possible, could you pass X my email address, should he want to make a contact with me.

Thanking you for your attention to me enquiry.

The person who contacted me is in the UK and the member is in South Africa. I know this kind of thing happens on and through the GNR on a regular basis. Occasionally someone tells me about it, and I am always happy to hear such stories. That's the main reason this site exists.

Incidentally, when someone contacts me like this wanting to contact a member, I do not give the person contacting me the member's e-mail address. I always forward the message to the member and ask him/her to contact the person directly, should they wish to do so, and I tell the person what I have done and why I cannot give them the member's e-mail address.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 21:21:16 (UTC)

Hi All

nrzam.org.uk has been updated.

Added Cathrine Nelson's Photograph Collection to the Conributions section. Cathrine spent her early childhood in Mongu and the pictures well reflect this time. Previously on the site in a less obvious position whilst awaiting captions. No more captions yet but I'm still hopeful - Cathrine?

Regards Ian

Ian Singer [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 20:22:38 (UTC)

Northerners...

After I installed service pack 2 I noticed that it blocks all pop-ups too - bonus!!!!!



Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 19:36:14 (UTC)

Hi All

nrzam.org.uk has been updated

Added the Northern Rhodesia Colonial Report to the Handbooks section of the site.

The Report provides a snapshot of 1962 in terms of Poulation, Occupations, Wages, Labour Organisations, Public Finance, Taxation, Currency, Banking, Commerce, Production, Social Services, Legislation, Justice, Police, Prisons, Public Utilities, Public Works, Communications, Press, Broadcasting, Films, Government Informations Services, General Items, Cultural and Social Activities. Also sections on Geography, Climate, History and Administration along with a reading list, appendices and photographs.

Kindly provided by Arthur Farncombe.

Regards Ian

Ian Singer [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 18:32:05 (UTC)

Tina, John Milton and other "Bikers"......this one is for you

Mechanic vs Surgeon


A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his shop. The surgeon was waiting for the service manager to take a look at his bike.
The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey Doc, can I ask you a question?"
The surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the motorcycle.

The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its 'heart', take valves out, fix'em, put'em back in; and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I get such a measly salary and you get the really big bucks when you and I are doing basically the same kind of work?
The surgeon paused, smiled, leaned over and whispered to the mechanic, "Try doing it with the engine running."

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 17:04:52 (UTC)

Northerners...

Suggest you do a disk clean up and defrag after downloading service pack 2...

Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 13:14:41 (UTC)

Northerners...

Windows XP Service Pack 2

Just installed - took about 90 minutes to download and go through the install. I have a high speed connection.

Everything still works...

The new firewall gave me two messages about wanting to block two sites - I replied yes.

Keeping my fingers crossed....

Has anyone else downloaded service pack 2?

Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 13:04:38 (UTC)

Chris Swart

Have just read with shock, your posting about our cousin Catherine. Please keep me informed on how she is recovering. God willing she will have a quick recovery. What does one say in circumstances like this terrrible event - our thoughts are with all the family during this traumatic time.

Gary Brassington



Gary Brassington [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Banbury Oxon, United Kingdom
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 22:31:40 (UTC)

Hi All

nrzam.org.uk has been updated

Codrington Section - added seven pictures of Codrington School and Hostel (now Kaonga Basic School) which were taken by Andrew Lean when he visited it recently.

Regards

Ian

Ian Singer [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 21:11:32 (UTC)

Zimbabwean Farmers in Zambia

I have a vague recollection that someone may have posted this link before, so my apologies if this is a repeat:

In pictures: Exiled Zimbabwe farmer from the BBC.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 20:18:57 (UTC)

Doug,

The person who posted the attribution to you for the short story, "Good God, I'm pregnant, I wonder who did it," must have been confused. It was Johnny who posted it on Friday, May 07, 2004 at 16:35:20 (UTC). However, it was on old (but good) joke for me by the time I read Johnny's post, so someone else must have thought that one up somewhere in the mists of time past.

I didn't read enough of the site to come to any conclusions about it. I was just trawling through the GNR's logs to see who was linking to our site.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 20:16:30 (UTC)

Catherine Ogilvy nee Henrichsen was critcally wounded after being shot in the head by poachers in the Lunga Luswishi while on an anti poaching fund raiser.
I believe she is being flown to South Africa tonight.

Chris Swart [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Kitwe, Zambia
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 16:46:00 (UTC)

Craig
Thanks for the tip off! I can't even hide in this outback place.

After checking that site I had a look back to my posting of May 7th but I can't really see the tie up. I guess they must mean the story about the painting? The site looks like a bit of an incestuous, high brow journalists (if there is such a thing) site to me.

Cheers - Doug

Doug Grewar [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vryheid, Natal, South Africa
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 11:00:22 (UTC)

Linda,

Yes, you understand correctly that the IP address displayed in the paragraph above the list of IP addresses in my long message is automatically generated and will change depending on the IP address of the person reading the board. Because of this, someone reading the message can look at their own IP address above the list, and then easily compare it to the IP addresses in the long list. If one of the IP addresses in the list is the same as their IP address, then it means there is a good chance they have a virus on their computer, especially if they have a full-time Internet connection.

The IP address you are receiving virii from (196.30.125.130) is an MWeb IP address in South Africa.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 07:20:55 (UTC)

Ali:

She is missing in action, I'm afraid. But I did notice a big smile on Elic's face. I guess he has forgotten about the Olympics for now. I watched in disbelief as Marion Jones went out in a fizzle rather than a blaze of glory tonight. That women's 4x100 relay was a fiasco for the Americans. Onward through the fog...

Craig:

I guess it took me a bit longer than everyone else to realise that it was "my" ISP address that you had in your long message to everyone. Did it show up as each member's ISP when they read it too? Quite clever. I was trying to track down the ISP of the email that is sending me the weird virus. It is 196 30 125 130. South Africa? I know what my own is and when I had a look at the long list you posted to see if the culprit was among those numbers, I saw my own in the paragraph above. I wonder if everyone realised theirs pulls in when they read that particular paragraph. Does anyone know what I am talking about or have I had too much to drink tonight?

Cathy Alexander:

Welcome to the GNR. You probably don't remember me but we worked together at GE in Kitwe many moons ago. Alison Brooks worked with us too. She and I are still friends after all these years.

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 06:27:04 (UTC)

.....Craig ........ keep posting your wonderful and obscure websites, I love having a giggle and challenging my intellect ...."moot" esp..........found out where the word Grog came from this morning.........and no not from the Marula tree ??? :0)
Linda did that girl eventually cheer up Elic ??

Ali

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 05:23:52 (UTC)

Doug Grewar,

Speaking of batons, you're famous.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 03:23:50 (UTC)

What a pity. I just watched the men's 4x400 qualifying relay race and South Africa dropped the baton, so they are out of it.

At least the runner wasn't thrown out for smoking dagga like one of our blokes was. How stupid can you get when you are at that level of competition to throw it all away.

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 03:02:50 (UTC)

Bob Gillies:

I remember you winning those hobo contests, but didn't you just go as yourself... grin?

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 20:46:03 (UTC)

sorry Arthur, I have been a bad boy by not posting.
Thanks for the photo I know lynda has been looking for this.
The bad news is my kness are still as nobbly. And if anyone has any information regarding my hat, it would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks again arty.

Des Kenny (formerly Crouch) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Wallasey, England
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 19:43:09 (UTC)

Linda,

It doesn't necessarily mean your computer is infected, but it does mean that someone who has your e-mail address on their computer is infected -- which could be you, but it sounds unlikely since you have done scans. If you look at the originating IP address in the extended headers of the message you'll probably find it's not your IP address, and you might even be able to identify the sender if you recognise the IP address.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 17:08:04 (UTC)

Madeleine, I see you were a Luckin. Any relation to Mr Luckin who was our teacher at Gilbert Rennie in 1963? Just wondering.

I am holding a Hobo Dance in October as a fundraiser for our Rotary Club. Has anyone any good suggestions
on how to have a real good one. I remember some at Kitwe Mine Club in the 70's cause I won twice. Any ideas will be very welcome, thanks.

Bob Gillies [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 15:37:37 (UTC)

Friends on the GNR:

If you receive an email from "me" from my normal home email address but with 3D right in front of my email address, please do not open it. It is a virus but I am not exactly sure how it is connected to me since it is not my correct email address. I got a reject notice from Anglo American in Kitwe today with this 3D in front of my home email address, so I am not sure how it is working. I have double checked and run my virus scan, and have no virus on my machine, either at home or work. However, I have started getting multiple virii warnings at work from my own work email address with the same situation. A 3D in front of it. I don't use that to correspond with any of you. This morning I got one myself at home with 3D in front of my home email address.

Does anyone have any suggestions here? My hubby is busy with other stuff this week, so I have not had chance to ask him what to do.

Thanks.

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 13:22:59 (UTC)


Good morning smilers hope this brings a smile, it did for me. Johnny.

My dad told me that if Adam and Eve had been Chinese, we would be still in Paradise. Why is that I asked?
Because they would have eaten the "£$^&"!! snake instead of the bloody apple! he said.


Johnny [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Scarborough, United Kingdom
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 07:57:46 (UTC)

Peter D, Dave Gray, Gerard Fagan and various others

I was away in Sinazongwe, delayed my return by two days and have now finally got my September issue together and to the printers (late !!). Now I start replying to all the emails that I have received, so just hang in there - will get to yours shortly - today if things go according to plan.

Heather Chalcraft (née Bender) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Lusaka, Zambia
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 07:38:31 (UTC)

Ali,

You have just made a point I make all the time, although it can be summed up with an old saying: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The best cure for spam is not spam filters, challenge/response systems, and all of the other technical wizardry that the technology companies want you to buy from them. The best way not to get spam is not to get on a spammer's list in the first place, and you seem to have accomplished that. How not to get on a spammer's list will be one of the subjects of the article I will write.

Doug,

I'm not sure Madeleine made that point, but I did promise access to the Names Directory again before the end of August. (At least, that's how I am interpreting my promises at this stage.) I have five days to go.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 06:54:18 (UTC)

Craig - I made the point earlier and now Madeleine makes the same . We can't access anyone through the GNR Names Directory because there's no search facility . But if we use an external search engine like Google we can get into the Directory if we choose specific names . So is there a way for Google and GNR to be linked for both easy access and general searching etc ?

Doug Waybush [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Maryland, USA, and London, England
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 01:18:14 (UTC)

Yeth Tina I agree with you...... ;0)
Craig
it is a funny world ,all this about spam etc, after being flooded daily with loads and loads of spam I changed my email address, and hey I have had not one spam???.........(I touched wood, just in case...)...also I am very careful now to clear my cookies, my temp internet files and I also have ad-aware that I run every day as well as my viriiii killer..........you could say I am a little paranoid but when one has children we have to protect them from the flotsam and jetsam of the internet.....

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 00:57:26 (UTC)

Oh yes. The boys get pictures of lissome lasses and by all means keep posting them. You should post beautiful things since a thing of beauty is a joy for ever and all that. Now this is a family site so you can't take that last sentence too literally, but, Arthur don't forget a little eye candy for us lasses.

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 23:09:55 (UTC)

NAMES DIRECTORY ISSUES AND SEARCH ENGINES

Warning: Verbosity ahead.

Madeleine,

Good question, and it is one that I have had put to me in private e-mail a few times recently. As Mat explained, the whole process involving search engines is automated and, in some cases, indiscriminate. Search engines index everything on the Web that is publicly accessible. Since most of the GNR is publicly accessible, including most (but not all) of the information in the Names Directory, it is indexed by the search engines. Therefore, if you search for your name with a search engine such as Google, one or more of the results returned will include pages on the GNR, including your Names Directory entry and the message boards on which you have posted messages.

If you search for my name on Google you'll get a whole bunch of results, some of which go back to the last millennium and some of which have nothing to do with this particular Craig Hartnett. Be warned though, that some of them are porn links. Am I a porn star in my (loads of) spare time? In my dreams maybe, but that's where the "indiscriminate" I mentioned above comes in; people (especially owners of porn sites) are always looking for more ways to get more visitors, and so they programme computers to generate bogus search results in an attempt to lure visitors to their sites who are not even looking for what they offer. So if you're looking for nude pics of me, I'm afraid you won't find them at any of the links in the Google results. Apparently they haven't indexed the right pages yet. :) There is nothing I can do about the fact that my name (and a name shared by a few other Craig Hartnetts on this planet) has been used in such a way, so I don't lose any sleep over it.

Anyway, back to reality now, if I still have your attention. Your searching for your name on Google has not started a chain of events of any sort. The data in Google's database just sits there, waiting for someone to come along and search for it. Google (and the other search engines) only regurgitate the data if it matches a term for which someone is searching. A search engine will only regurgitate your e-mail address if it is in its database, and your e-mail address will only get into its database if it is posted somewhere on the Web. This is where the GNR has gone to great lengths to protect you; you will not find your or anyone else's e-mail address anywhere on the GNR, and therefore you will not find your or anyone else's e-mail address on any GNR pages that have been indexed by Google. This, of course, assumes that people do not post e-mail addresses in the text of the messages that they post on the message board, which does happen occasionally.

The question has been raised as to whether or not the GNR Names Directory should be accessible to the public in general and search engines in particular. I am in the process of answering this question at the moment because I am reprogramming the scripts that run the Names Directory. Because the GNR is a contact site (i.e., a Web site where people who have lost contact with one another re-establish contact), it is essential that some information be publicly accessible. If it was not, the friends you would like to contact from years ago would not be able to find you. It's pretty simple really; without the help of the search engines, the GNR would cease to exist because it's very raison d'être is to allow people to search for and find each other, and people would not find the GNR if it wasn't for search engines.

However, some information in the Names Directory does not have to be available to the whole world. We already protect e-mail addresses (so you will not be spammed or receive viruses/virii [thank-you CJ] as a result of joining and participating in the GNR), but we are now going to protect other information such as maiden names. However, this is a double edged sword, because now people who knew you as Madeleine Bekker might not find you, and those that do will be fewer than those that don't because fewer people are willing to do the extra work. Maiden names and the other information we decide to keep from public view will be available to members once they have logged in, but since search engines cannot log into the site they will not index things such as maiden names.

All that said, search engines only index what you enter, so if you don't enter your maiden name (for example) into the Names Directory, then it won't exist In the Names Directory and the search engines won't index it.

On the subject of maiden names, I have made the comment before that one's maiden name doesn't have to be that sensitive. I know that many organisations now use maiden names as a code word, but there is nothing that says you have to use your mother's maiden name as the code word. The reason companies and organisations ask you to use your mother's maiden name is because they are pretty sure you'll remember it when it comes time to identify yourself, to a bank teller for example. I use different code words for different banks, and none of them are my mother's maiden name. This means that someone who knows my mother's maiden name can't go into my bank and clean out my account... not that they'd get very far with the proceeds. (It also means that when Alzheimer's sets in for me I won't be able to get any money out of the bank, but I'll deal with that when the time comes.)

Mat,

Thanks for your much briefer explanation.

CJ,

You might enjoy a word game called Moot, billed as "the world's toughest language game". I love it. If you say "virii" to your average North American they look at you as if you are speaking Greek. If they looked at you as if you were speaking Latin, that would be progress. :)

Chris,

I know that your e-mail address is all over the Internet and has not changed in years, so I am not surprised that you receive vast quantities of spam and viruses. You clearly have far more patience than I with that stuff!

Peter,

Thanks for the numbers.

Computer Security Issues in General

In my loads of free time (when I'm not making blue movies) I am writing an article on security issues which will cover a broad array of topics and will hopefully explain them in language that is understandable to most people (without dumbing it down too much) and make recommendations that are realistic for the average computer user. Threats and solutions covered will include:
  • Spam: Education, prevention system, server-side spam filter
  • Malware (user installed): Education, non-MS browser, secure browser settings
  • Viruses, worms, Trojans: Server- and client-side anti-virus scanners, software firewall, non-MS e-mail client
  • Pop-ups: Non-MS browser
  • Cookies and caches: Automatic and manual clearing
  • Hackers: Hardware firewall
  • Deleted files: Wipe utility
  • Unauthorised local users: Strong password protection, encryption of disks and files, OS version, BIOS
  • IP address broadcast: Impossible without breaking Internet, unreliable at best, anonymous browsing proxies
  • Eavesdropping: Encrypted transaction protocols, encrypted message contents (e-mail, instant messaging, etc.)
  • Identity theft: Strong passwords, encrypted access, selective paranoia
Don't hold your breath. When it's done I will post a link to it.


Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 21:51:13 (UTC)

Northerners...

I have been using eTrust ezAntivurus for about five years now. It was free but now is $9.99 a year.

They sent me updates probably three times a week.

Fingers crossed - so far never been hit with a virus.

I also clean out my cookies a few times a week and run Spybot (free) once a week.

Craig and other Canadian Northerners...

Buy a Super7 for tomorrow NOW - $26,000,000....

I have:

02 06 17 24 26 27 33
02 06 17 24 26 41 43
02 06 17 27 33 41 43
02 24 26 27 33 41 43



Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 20:50:53 (UTC)

Johnny, Arthur, Linda
Not "The Tassel Tosser"
She would not be seen without her Tassels!
I thought it might have been Glenda Kemp, but I don't see the other half of her act - 'Percy the Python'
Remember the python Johnny?? I sure your eyes were always fixed on that cute serpent!
Arthur, keep the Eye Candy coming, it works a lot better for us males than the Swarfega Hand cleaner!


Bill Hunt [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Widenham, Natal, South Africa
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 19:49:59 (UTC)

Craig,

I sympathise. We run our computer 24/7 and with DSL are on line all the time. In addition, our e-mail address (baylight@baylighting.com) is synonymous with our domain (www.baylighting.com). We really lay ourselves open to everybody and their uncles! Spam? Millions of them. But here is what we have done to negate the problem as far as possible:

1- Software firewall
2- Router (hardware firewall)
3- Trend Anti Virus software ($14/year)
4- Mailwasher, free, allows you to examine the contents of your mailbox before downloading it. Allows for "Blacklist" and "Friends", Delete, and Bounce. With a bounce, the spam is returned to the originator with a message saying that the addressee has a non deliverable address
5- Postini, $5/month - they hold all suspicious spam messages and sort them into those which contain a virus, and those which just look like spam. You can delete/receive any messages remotely, and check out the messages containing the virus - for senders name, content etc.

It takes a while to process e-mail, but that is cheap at the price. We have not had a sucessful virus attack in many years, but would be able to monitor every attempt if we chose to do so. In fact, when we receive a virus from a sender we know, we are able to inform them that they have been infected.

Chris Tamm [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 18:35:06 (UTC)

Craig,
I concur. I have, recently, been receiving doses of virii (mongeeses ?) on a daily basis. It really is getting out of hand - just trying to dodge them. I must be on the same circulation list!
Regards
CJ



Charles Cartmill [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Stellenridge, Cape Town, South Africa
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 14:13:52 (UTC)

Hi Mathieu

Thanks so much for your explaination. It of course is right over my head. Strange, just because I entered my name in Google, I started a chain of events which I am now responsible for, it appearing there in the first place. I wonder if the spam idiots take advantage of this .

Have a good weekend

Madeleine

Madeleine Luckin (née Bekker) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 11:52:29 (UTC)

Madeline,

I know you addressed to Craig, I'm just sticking my 2-penneth in... :-) I know this is completely off-topic for GNR, but as a self-confessed geek I cant help myself.

Google works by automated processes (called Bots - as in robots) 'trawling' the whole internet, clicking buttons and links etc... As pages are displayed, Google stores them in its database. When someone does a Google search its searches its database for any matching text.

So, on some GNR pages is the word 'Luckin', so Google also has those pages stored and when you do a search it matches on them.

Craig _could_ use a META_DATA directive to stop the Robot from navigating down to the pages in GNR (like the messages thing), but it is not secure in that it relies on the search engine following the 'do not learn' directive.

Ok, geeky stuff over with... Rather than clog the GNR up with off-topic geeky stuff, if anyone wants to discuss this just contact me....

Mat

Mathieu Walker [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 10:33:22 (UTC)

Hi Craig

I have just read your message re spam etc. I was wondering if you could advise me on the following.

I was trying to find any information on my surname, and went onto google with Luckin. Much to my surprise there was my name etc, plus the fact that I was part of GNR. plus my maiden name. Maybe I am a little out of my deepth, and this happens automaticly when you register with GNR.

Can you explain.

Tks
Madeleine



Madeleine Luckin (née Bekker) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 09:28:36 (UTC)

OK, I'M GETTING A LITTLE TIRED OF THIS

I am getting a daily deluge of e-mail messages laden with viruses. For the last few days I have been getting a fresh batch of about half a dozen every morning shortly after 8:00 am British time. They all seem to originate from a British Telecom customer who has an ADSL (i.e., fast/broadband/high-speed) connection. I suspect a GNR member because all of the messages are sent to greatnorthroad.org e-mail addresses.

You've heard it all before, but please install and keep up-to-date an anti-virus software package. Viruses are not just an inconvenience anymore; they are a threat. These days they steal your passwords and help fraudsters commit more on-line fraud, and one of my clients was a victim just last week. It's something to take very seriously. If your computer is infected, you're not just annoying everyone whose e-mail address is stored on your computer, but you're also probably broadcasting your sensitive passwords to half of the Internet, including the passwords you use for such things as on-line banking and that secret e-mail account you think your spouse doesn't know about. (Bet that got your attention!) If you think that disinfecting your computer is a waste of time and something you can get to next week or not even bother with at all, you're contributing to the propagation of on-line fraud -- plain and simple. If you forward jokes and chain letters with the e-mail addresses of all the recipients exposed for all to see in the "To" and "Cc" headers, you're contributing to the propagation of on-line fraud -- plain and simple. You might think I am exaggerating, but I am not.

If you haven't yet settled on an anti-virus package, you can do a virus scan through a Web page on the Symantec Web site. This will take a while, depending on your connection speed and the number of files on your computer (and how many of them might be infected), but it's well worth it if you don't have anti-virus software installed. You have to remain connected throughout the entire scan, so that could prove to be a problem for people on dial-up connections. However, this scan is only meant to be a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

For a long-term solution I suggest you buy, install and keep up-to-date proper anti-virus software that is scanning your computer all the time, but I don't recommend either of the two big anti-virus vendors -- Symantec (Norton) or McAfee. Instead I suggest eTrust ezAntivurus from Computer Associates -- just the anti-virus software, not the ezArmor suite or ezFirewall. You should also have a software firewall if you don't have a hardware firewall, but I would recommend Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm Pro over the eTrust ezFirewall. (You can even get US$20 off the price of ZoneAlarm Pro from this page.)

Anti-virus and firewall software are both very important, but ten times more important if you have a broadband connection (usually ADSL or cable) that is always on. Do you know what your always-connected computer is doing when you step away from it? Hell, most people don't even know what their computer is doing when they are sitting in front of it, never mind what it's doing while you're sleeping. While I'm on that subject, make sure you turn your computer off when you leave the house or go to bed. I know there's all sorts of "conventional wisdom" out there that says you should leave it on all the time, but it doesn't apply anymore, especially with the way viruses and worms propagate. If you (for some reason) have to leave your computer on all the time but it doesn't need to connect to the Internet when you're out or sleeping, then by all means leave the computer on, but disconnect it from the Internet.

So, if you are a BT customer who is in the habit of flicking on your computer at about eight o' clock every morning, please check your !@#$%^&* computer for viruses! However, I am also getting viruses from people in South Africa, Zambia, Canada, and the USA.

Your IP address is 38.103.63.17. Are you in the list below? The following IP addresses (not all of which are BT IP addresses) have all been hitting me in the last few weeks:

Craig Hartnett [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 09:09:11 (UTC)

Hi Guys, long time no post but I was reading Robert and Keiths comments on the rugby and thought I would chip in. I was at the stadium too and I agree that there were very few of us supporting the Wallabies( we counted maybe 50 out of 55,000). The only time we could be heard was singing the national anthem and when Australia scored because the crowd went silent. An incredible experience as the passion of the home crowd was palpable. The best part (for me) was being able to have a kick on the pitch after the game and then enjoying the concert and braais at the back of the stadium afterwards...it was going off! I gave in about 9.30pm but I believe the crowd was still there after midnight....not a bad effort considering the game finished early evening. The trip gave us (Hazel &I) the opportunity to catch up with Bonny and Paul Frazier in Durban and then Grant & Heather Knowles and Viv Buitendag in Joeys. Hazel also saw Colin and Jan McGregor.
Thanks for the photos Arthur...I spotted Noel daley, Clive Spiers and Sharon Padkin (and of course Pappy). Good to see Gerard Fagan on the board as well
Regards
Chris

Chris Forde [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 04:38:37 (UTC)

Ada


Can't imagine you not being busy in life. Good to hear from you. Remember to check in once in a while though.

Happy, active, interesting days to you and Chris.

XXXXXXXX

Tina

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 00:43:26 (UTC)


Arthur:
You mentioned that the last issue of the Rhokana Review was published in December 1962.
This was followed by a similar publication "The Rhokana Copper Miner", does anyone remember this or have any copies..I have only 1 issue, Volume 1 issue no.8 dated April 1963, price 1 penny..
I found this publication a lot more informative and interesting than the Rhokana Reviews both with articles and pictures of personalities at Rhokana and Kitwe, a quite different format.
Hopefully someone out there has saved some copies and will pass them on to you, Arthur. (David Gray or Peter Hills)??.
It was published by Rhokana Corporation and printed in Ndola.

Thanks Arthur, for the laugh at the picture of my sister and me wearing those silly 'flower pot' hats, very fashionable back in the 50's....
Sassy June

June Bohl (née Walker, formerly McCarthy) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 17:48:56 (UTC)

Arthur

How are you. We will all have to get together soon as withdrawal symptoms are moving in!!!

My matches are DRY!!! We were up your way a couple of weeks ago but left your address at home and your tele number. I could have tested them then. We went all the way to John O'Groats had wonderful weather in Scotland. The Lake District was WET.

Thanks for that photo of the GOOD OLD DAYS.

You should have hung around with me in those days Arthur and you would most definately have gone to Rhodwins and the rapids. Now that was a great swimming place. Dangerous but great.

Belated Birthday wishes Lots of love

Ada


Mike Edwards
Suzman's is just outside Newhaven which is some way from Hastings. I wish they were in Hastings as I live there and it would be so easy to get my biltong!!!!!

Hi Tina, Jacqui, Gary, Tash, Scott, Fi, Graham and everyone else. I don't use the computer much these days - busy, busy!!!

Love to all of you.

Ada



Ada Cantrell (née Wienand) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hastings, East Sussex, England
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 16:58:48 (UTC)


Arthur no this was not the elusive tassel tosser and I thought I had seen them all in Kitwe but I do not remember the one you published, worse luck. Johnny.

Johnny [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Scarborough, United Kingdom
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 15:02:43 (UTC)

Just been chatting to Barry about Ndola/Itawa etc....

A song popped into my head. Tiyende Pamodzi. If that brings back a few memories (it's Kaunda's favourite) I found a good recording of it:-

"http://makeni.org.uk/Tiyende Pamodzi.mp3"

Can anyone (this will trace a few) remember singing it at Itawa School?

Mathieu Walker [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 11:37:43 (UTC)

Northerners !

Thank you all for the birthday fishes, wishes and kisses posted here and also those sent by e-mail. I'm sure I could get you all day jobs to keep you doing something constructive. My staff had a bad day when I had to go in work, I just love birthdays, I suppose they're sort of a sunset in a way.

I went over to Peter Hills home to collect a further batch of Rhokana Reviews last Friday, just arrived from David Gray and Skatie Fourie, Cape Town. The magazines are those from 1961 and 1962, up to the final issue which was printed in December 1962.

Weekend was taken up by a marathon scanning session to get all the mags done and this project somewhere near complete. Whilst scanning the mags I noticed some issues were doubled up, two months in one issue, then the fact soon became apparent, I am just ONE issue short of my goal.

If any of you would really like to make my day, birthday or otherwise, the missing issue is MAY 1961 (No.8 from volume 10), if anyone has a copy of this magazine and they would be willing loan it to me for a short period for scanning, please get in touch. This is now my Holy Grail.


Here are a few scans from the latest magazines.

Linda

You like men with a big pipe?

Click for image.

Try this one.

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Erm.. - maybe this one would be more desirable - he has a double bowl.


Johnny

Click for image.

Is this the famous Tassel Tosser?


Click for image.

For Des & Denise (Crouch) - you lot are in my bad books by the way.


For Ian Knox

Click for image.

Moira - perhaps you'd better let Knoxie know I posted this here, another member that can't post.


Ada Cantrell - another one that's lost her ability to type, and makes her husband do all the work.

Click for image.

How's your matches babe?


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One for Pappy Papier


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Another bunch of young sprogs


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One for Sassy June Bohl


Mike Wilson,

Click for image.

I also found this one of Sharon Padkin, Marilyn Shooters rival.

I'll be back


Arthur



Arthur Steevens [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Stockport, United Kingdom
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 00:11:02 (UTC)

Hi all

Talking about the Rugby on Saturday, I had to opportunity to go and watch live at ABSA stadium. Let me tell you the experience was electrifying. The atmosphere amongst the crowds was awesome. Nothing like the live matches I have seen previously.

So many South Africans had the courage to dress up, and show their support. Some wiht painted bodies in green and gold others in costumes. Man, it was brilliant.

Muscian Johnny Clegg gave a concert afterwards in the fields behind the Stadium, that was not too bad.

Hope to hear from some more Rhodies.

Thanks to Erman for contacting me.

Go well
Robbie


Robert Cloke [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 17:47:55 (UTC)

Gerard
I did reply to your email. Maybe it got lost among the spam.

I heard about these caves from a Anglo-American prospector named John Salmon who used to live in Mufulira. It was over a beer at a braai some 40 years ago and I never got details of the caves exact location. In fact I seem to recall John was rather guarded about it. Maybe he had ideas of harvesting the centuries thick layer of guano and selling it as fertilizer. Apparently these caves went in for several miles.

Heather might be the best person to ask about the caves location.

Cheers - Doug

Doug Grewar [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vryheid, Natal, South Africa
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 17:28:53 (UTC)

Doug Grewar sometime ago posted a message which includes something about Caves in North Western Zambia. If Doug reads this I will be grateful for some details on where they are.

Gerard Fagan [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Kitwe, Zambia
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 15:08:43 (UTC)

Hi,

I am looking for some pictures of the narrow tar road between Livingstone and Zimba and also between Mazabuka and Kafue that existed until the early 70s.

I believe, if my memory serves me right, the road between Mazabuka and Kafue got widened first, just before 1975 and the Livingstone to Zimba got widened late 70's.

If anyone has the address of a website where I can go to or can post a picture....

Thanks

Bikash Paul [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 15:03:50 (UTC)

BTW. She's not overweight - she's underheight. According to the chart in the Doctor's Office, she should be 7' 6".

Ken Fernie [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Irvine, California, United States
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 13:37:53 (UTC)

What about Susie Mutwetwe for the part? When she sat around the house, she sat around the house. The original OOMPH girl, when she sat on the couch, it shouted "OOMPH".

Ken Fernie [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Irvine, California, United States
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 13:35:38 (UTC)

Considering that she is no long Minister of Health, I am sure that Inkososana Zuma (spel) would not only be able to do the part justice, as her decisions have proved in the past!!! but she is bound to again enjoy delving into all manner of areas not under her control.
Madeleine

Madeleine Luckin (née Bekker) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 12:10:19 (UTC)

Mma Ramotswe..
I have heard that both Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Whinfrey are both interested in taking the lead part.
Has anybody got any other suggestions has who would make a good traditionaly built lady detective who would look good in a tiny white van ?

David Swan [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 08:57:21 (UTC)

Arthur.
Belated birthday wishes, Hope you had a great day.
Thanks for all the hard work you put into the GNR
Lynda

Lynda Fielder (née Clark) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Rye Sussex, England
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 07:02:35 (UTC)

Ali, Add : Can't eat ostrich - a virus here appeared recently and up to 30,000 were going to be destroyed around the country!

Bob Gillies [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 06:02:58 (UTC)

Linda

Very cool. Nice bit of info.

Ken

Eggsistential surely



Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 05:13:12 (UTC)

An interesting snippet for Mma Ramotswe and the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency fans. I have just read an article in The Economist about the amazing success of Alexander McCall Smith's series. There is yet another just published, "In The Company of Cheerful Ladies." At least two more are planned. Nearly 5 million copies of the first five books have been bought in English. Editions in Bulgarian, Icelandic, Sloven and some 30 other languages sell well too. Who would have thunk..

A bonus is that Mirimax film company and director Anthony Minghella of "The English Patient" have sealed the deal to make at least three Mma Ramotswe television films. Obviously Halle Barry will not be auditioning for the lead part!

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 03:59:38 (UTC)

Arthur!

Best wishes for a Happy Birthday mate. Hope U have a great day. Thanks for all your unrelented hard work on the GNR.

Gary & Kids.

Gary Brassington [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Banbury Oxon, United Kingdom
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 21:44:55 (UTC)

Arthur

Happy Birthday dearest friend! Hope you have had a very special day. Much love xx

Jacqui Milward (née Lackenby) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
London, England
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 17:45:35 (UTC)

I once took a course in existentialist Philosophy. For my final paper, I went every day for three months to a Fast-food Restaurant and ordered a Chicken sandwich, and an Egg sandwich, to see which would come first.

Ken Fernie [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Irvine, California, United States
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 17:01:05 (UTC)

What comes first the chicken or the egg???can Zambian chooks beat this??
a little snippet from the "ABC email news"
A free-range egg producer on the mid-north coast of New South Wales is scratching her head over the appearance of a giant egg with a second egg inside it.

Sue Paff says finding the 10 centimetre long egg was a surprise but the real shock was cracking it to find a second fully formed egg inside.

"I rolled it around because I thought, oh, it's probably all egg white, you know, and I thought, 'there's something in there'," she said.

"Then we peeled this shell back and there was another whole, perfect egg inside and then we cracked that and it was perfect inside as well.

"So it was quite a shock actually ... I don't know how common it is but we've had two."

University of Sydney poultry science chairman Professor Tom Scott says he has only seen such an egg once in his 30-year career.

He says when a normal egg is in the shell gland, a disturbance can cause it to go back up into the oviduct and start egg production all over again, resulting in an egg inside an egg

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 15:05:29 (UTC)

Hi Arthur,
Happy birthday. I Hope your family spoil you and buy you all the flies/lures/fishing katunda/etc. you've had your eye on.
Regards

Charles Cartmill [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Stellenridge, Cape Town, South Africa
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 11:39:20 (UTC)

Hello Arthur,

whatever everyone else wishes you we wish you the same and much much more. Have a good.........one
mmm-xxx All the Beeeesssst from Anja and Bryan

Bryan Baker [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 11:18:35 (UTC)

Hi Artie

A very happy birthday to you! I hope you have a good one - you deserve it. By the way, long time no talk. Hope to see you online soon.

xxx

Fiona Gayther (née Ferguson) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Tytherington, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 10:45:27 (UTC)


Artie.

Many happy returns old mart Johnny.

Johnny [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Scarborough, United Kingdom
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 09:51:24 (UTC)

Hi Arthur,
Many More. Look after yourself.

Mike

Mike Wilson [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Dawlish, Devon, United Kingdom
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 06:12:18 (UTC)

Bugger – missed the rugger.

I have just seen the video of Saturday’s game some 40 hours after the event. I must have been busy watching Australia’s men beating South Africa at hockey in the Olympics at the time. Maybe I was even watching Nick Baxter rowing for Australia on Saturday evening. Nick is the brother of Wallabies front rower Al Baxter.

Georgie Gregan did have a bit to say but as captain that’s his prerogative as long as he doesn’t argue with the ref. Did you notice that a 750ml bottle of liquid was thrown at him when he came back on to the field after half-time? That’s now been sent away for diagnosis and finger printing. Could it have been the guy who tackled the ref a couple of years ago?

3 tries to 2 in favour of the Wallabies but a good win to the Boks anyway.

Did anyone notice which side had more blacks and coloureds? Interesting but the Wallabies may have had more.

What about the crowd? At the Perth game there must have been 8,000 South Africans out of 40,000. In Durban I didn’t see one Wallaby fan in the 52,000 crowd. The home crowd made such a noise that the Wallabies hooker couldn’t hear the line out calls and gave away 3 free kicks for not throwing the ball in quickly enough.

And what about Percy Montgomery? He departed from the field before getting his marching orders from the ref for that dangerous tackle. We used to see batsmen walk (and still do in the case of Adam Gilchrist) but that must be the first time it’s happened in rugby.

And talking of commentators, as Chris Tamm did in a previous post, we have pretty good ones here: expert Gordon Bray and past players Dan Crowley and Tim Horan. Commenting on the mighty Os du Rand’s return to international rugby after a couple of year’s sabbatical, Tim Horan said he had been out in the wilderness snacking on elephants. I don't think he was wrong!


Keith Binns [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 04:27:47 (UTC)

Dear Arthur,
Happy-Happy Birthday - may you celebrate many more! We'll raise a glass or two of VB and as the Boro's is sold in circles here, so we'll chuck a circle on the Barbie too.
Thank you for all the hard work you've put in over the years - the GNR just wouldn't be as colourful without your consistantly magnificent contributions.
Best wishes from us both,
Sue and Paudie.

Sue Coughlan (née Forde) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, WA, Australia
Monday, August 23, 2004 at 02:03:55 (UTC)

Nope, I'm afraid it's the one that got away. How about these symbol fishes. (Could work). If not, that's it for this round.

<(((< <[[[< <{{{<

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 21:10:07 (UTC)

One last try. All these dangerous additives to our waters* can leave us with some very mutant fishies. 


                  

        HAPPY BIRF      !!!!!

     A                 DAY!!!!! 

        TOARTHUR     !!!!!

    




 HAPPY BIRF   !!!!!

     A                 DAY!!!!! 

        TOARTHUR     !!!!!


* (Like scotch, for instance, shhhhhhh!)

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 21:04:45 (UTC)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARTIE!!

A birthday ditty, just for you.

We all know that Artie's a hunk
Though 56, he's still quite full of spunk
When he stands close to me
I get weak at the knee
And I don't even need to sniff GUNK!

(I know... report to the Headmaster for being naughty! Since it's your birthday, I'll let you use your cane instead of mine...grin)

LUV YA!

Linda Hayes (née Dore) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Austin, Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 20:29:53 (UTC)

A piece of Rhodesiana on e-bay - $1.6 million...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6317422621&category=2312&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1


Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 19:02:40 (UTC)

Tina , Craig might play magician and fix your fish for Artie..........

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 16:21:36 (UTC)

(It's supposed to be a fish shape and at least that is recognisable but Ican barely remember the letters html so this is the result).

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 16:17:18 (UTC)


  

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        HAPPY BIRF    A 

    A                     D

        TOARTHUR     !

                                   !





Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 16:03:28 (UTC)

Happy Birthday KING ARTIE
hope you have a wonderful day and many many more
Ali

Ali Key [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Perth, Australia
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 15:38:01 (UTC)

Arthur
Happy Birthday and many happy bites! Thanks once again for all the hard work you do for this site, that brings pleasure to so many of us.

Cheers - Doug

Doug Grewar [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Vryheid, Natal, South Africa
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 14:56:10 (UTC)

HEY ARTHUR! ..........................




HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU OLD FOX!

Miss you heaps, wish you always the very best, and love you to bits!
Mo xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

P.S. ...... it's half past midnight on the 23rd August, so I AM allowed to wish you birthday happies NOW!



Moira Steevens [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Brisbane, Australia
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 14:38:09 (UTC)

2005 reunion...

Has anyone looked at fares to Lusaka yet?

So far BA seems to have best fares both out of Canada and Heathrow.

Peter Dielissen [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 12:58:14 (UTC)

Score 23 - !9
Good result Jake, but don't underestimate the abilities of the 2007 World Cup Yankee 15! ( presently in frantic training)
They might be a force to be reckoned with!!

Bill Hunt [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Widenham, Natal, South Africa
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 11:26:06 (UTC)

Other stuff lifted from the "Circles of Influence" link on that pole site about the originality and thinking of Bob and this fascinating little gaggle of South Africans. http://www.blbweb.co.za/bushbaby/circle.htm#2

"If you want to make a difference in LIFE then be prepared to do things a little differently. Step away from your comfort zone and simply just DO IT. That way you will encounter the "kairos moments".

Definition of Kairos Moments - The Greek word kairos means "a pivotal moment in time, a life changing moment or event". An epiphany I suppose you could say.

They did the: "Day in the Life of South Africa" project in 1982 out of enthusiastic originality of spirit and the will to do good, and it took off out of all proportion. This project which can give life changing ideas and quality experience to the life of underprivileged, no hope kids, is going to go the same way.

May we all step out of our comfort zones with open hearts and let the kairos moments find us.

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 04:09:53 (UTC)

Up the pole at the waterhole is fascinating. (The link to up the pole in S.A. below).

You get great information by clicking on the menu at the left of the page. Engineering the structure, which must be carried in and out of the location, solar panels for energy for laptop, and light and a little fridge, potty arrangements. Not any emphasis on screening him from the elements though I suppose he could get some shade by positioning the camera umbrella.

Two weeks up a pole for charity in a game park with lions, elephants, leopard, rhino moving by to drink just a few feet below you. Wow. (Wondering how high a hungry leopard can spring). You wouldn't want to walk in your sleep but despite the discomforts it sounds very attractive.

Tina Magee (née Wallace) [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Texas, United States
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 03:37:39 (UTC)

Gill Ward

So you do read the Message Board! you are looking for a quite large oval brass plate with a makers name and number on it, if you don't have it the "Old Man" must have given it away. Scotland was great, came away with a tan, escaped as the rain arrived

Chris Cantrell [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 19:49:26 (UTC)

OK Douglas,

The Springbucks (sic) are back, after a very long drought when they became somewhat of an embarrassment. How did you feel about the crowd's response to Rathbone each time he touched the ball? It seems to me the Horstruckingfailures talked themselves out of this game. They panicked way too much, and the Zamboon point 5 mouthed his way through the game, but instead of whipping up his own boys, he tried to whip up the match officials. And what was their hooker up to? Did the Aussies throw the game?? Nah, only joking. The Bokke played very well, again, and the score differential could have been far wider if it wasn't for poofter Percy off being off target, again. He also well deserved his 10 minutes in the cooler.

Now if the slopies can only find some descent game callers, as opposed to monotonous name callers. Over here, we only ever get to hear Bladen and his sidekick. Do they not have any better commentators? My favorite commentating team is Nisbo with John Drake, followed by Messrs. Clark, Martin, and Kearns. They call their games well using easy to understand descriptions of some of the technical aspects of the game. Mexted? Ought to be keel hauled south of Invercargill in mid winter.

Ok you lot, so who will win the Currie Cup this year? Now that Sowf Efrika is back, we get to see both the Currie Cup and NPC contests this year, starting next weekend. Yippie!!

Chris Tamm [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 18:02:31 (UTC)

Doug,
you beat me to it! I had to send an SMS to Otto who is languishing on Paradise Island in the Mozambique Channel - in the Bazaruto Archipelago - I am here running a horse show! But - at least I have the telly with the Olympics and the rugby!

Jilly

Jill Aplin [ Profile ] [ Contact ]
South Afr