Oct21
South Africa has won the Rugby World Cup for the second time, a feat only equaled by Australia. It was a tight, defensive game with the final score being decided on kicks – final score: South Africa 15 – 6 England.
Last night was like a dream. We (Jackie, Nicole & fam, William, Ricky & co) met at Cubana, Table View in our usual spot and the vibe was excited and tense. People who don’t watch rugby were excited, people who have been watching test matches for decades were tense. Why? Because England know how to win big matches and their World Cup team has been about as predictable as France this time round.
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Oct19
I have been nervous all week. But in a good way. I can’t remember being this excited since the last time we won the William Web Ellis trophy in 1995. That day I felt emotions I never knew I had. It’s good to see God is on our side though…
“Brian Ashton and Jake White both die and enter the Pearly Gates. God takes Brian on a tour of heaven and ends up at a little two-bedroom bungalow with a faded English rugby banner hanging from the front porch.
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Oct3
For those who prefer using dig to NSLookup – here are some decent instructions on how to get running within Windows Command Prompt.
Oct3
Windows task scheduler is a bit crappy but using wget for windows makes it bearable. Setting it up is really quick and simple and once setup you can call url’s directly eg. “wget http://myvhost.local/cron/script.php”, also has the full functionality of wget so that comes in handy too…
