The end is nigh!

... the end of the year, at least.

The year is done, 2010 drawing to a close, and as I look back over the year I think it went pretty well. We've had some great successes, and most of the problems have been smoothed over (or at least swept under the rug). All things considered, I'd like to give a round of applause to my friends, family and fellow South Africans: Thanks for a good year. /cheer.

I'm not going to bore you with a recap of 'my favorite things from 2010'... if you're really interested, you can read through the archives to see what I favored ^^

Also: the astute amongst you will also notice that I've changed the formatting of these posts a little. I've separated the 'In the News' and 'Word of the Week' sections into distinct posts... moving forward you will be able to filter on just those bits using the categories drop-down on your right.

Thanks for reading, and commenting, and telling your friends about this awesome blog. And now that I've thanked you, you have to do it. Have an awesome New Years, and I'll see you all next year.

-Odd

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking" - A. A. Milne

Word Of The Week

Eschatological - Adjective

1. Regarding last, or final, matters, often of a theological nature


2. Regarding any system of doctrines concerning theological endings, such as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc.

In The News:

New solar fuel machine 'mimics plant life' - it's amazing how often our great scientific discoveries are blatant plagiarisms of nature.

Top 10 Video games of 2010 - not sure how much I agree with this list... but it's still cool

Real life 'Frogger' ends in tragedy - BAKA! Bill Hicks would be jumping for joy.

Space weather forecasters looking for big activity - Our Sun is about to go into a very energetic period, apparently... who's been giving him Red Bull?

AI to transform the web - this according to a Russian tycoon... at least they won't Troll.... right?