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When I was but a teeny, my ambition was to become an archaeologist and discover (re-discover) treasures and civilisations of the past. Dig up – literally and figuratively – the past and dissect the customs, building, etc., of those that went before us.

The great impetus to this was the history of the great men who dug (sorry: excavated) at Ur, Mesopotamia, Troy, the Valley of the Kings, and many, many others.

The Rosetta stone gave the biggest ...

Today's blog could have had many titles.

During the week I was thinking of “The proper study of Mankind is Man”.

That was after I had watched Idi Amin on our pay channel last Sunday – this time with (mentally) pen and paper at the ready to immediately ink all the impressions left on me by this enigma of a man who could display the equanimity of a Nelson Mandela in one second, fly into a Desmond Tutu impotent rage the next and display the inhuman cruelty - sheathed ...

If you don't know that I am a computer nut by now, you will never know. But I am and my better half has often questioned whose name is on the marriage certificate besides my own: hers or my computer's.

So, yes, I spend a lot of time online. I love downloading (ask Mweb - they are smiling all the way to the bank because I exceed my cap regularly) (Thanks, guys!)

I love new programmes and that also means that I check out the various download sites religiously (if I may ...

The secret is a secret no more. In the jungle of poverty and lost hope that is present-day Zimbabwe, the mighty lion sleeps no more.

Zim ex fiance minister Simba Makoni has jumped into the ring to contest the 29 March election against His Highness, Mad Bob Mugabe, the Terminator of Sinbabwe.

After the pathetic squabbling of the supposed mature opposition parties of Tsvangirai and Mutambara - at the moment decidedly the Dumb and Dumber of Zim politics - had left the ...

In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus) was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. Janus is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions.

In Shakespeare's play "Othello", the double-crossing Iago utters the words "By Janus" when lying to Othello, a play on words considering his own two-faced nature.

I realise that above intro makes this actually sound like an episode of the "X-Files" or another film from ...