Where to leave your car when skipping the country

Jo'burg International Airport parkade: E-Class Merc, 1-inch dust, 3 x flat tyres, explicit finger-grafitti, 1 x bank-breaker parking bill ... anyone skipped the country lately?

Da Vinci and Satan

Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has rocked the Christian community. Whether you're phased by the take on Jesus' life, or you just don't care ... you have to admit that the book was a remarkable piece of writing. Most people I know who have read it finished it in a matter of days.

And now the movie is due for worldwide release on 19.05.06. You'd notice from previous posts that I'm interested in how movies based on books compare to the books themselves. After seeing the trailer for Da Vinci code (see it here, Quicktime and Broadband needed) I'm looking forward to a comparison in the Narnia range.

Oh, out of interest: the majority of people who condemn the book have not even read it. This was true at an evening we had last year where Tom Smith enlightened us about the book, as well as in Mike's July 2005 post. The reaction was also true of Salman Rushdie's(1988) Satanic Verses when in 1989 Islamic states wasted no time in bannig the book.

Aside: how do we make a stance against an issue if we have not experienced the issue firt hand? Some issues to think about: homosexuality, drugs, rape, murder, etc.

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Typical automated answering services tell us that out call may be recorded for our benefit (or quality reasons).

What the hell for?

16 days to go...