Tuesday, July 14, 2020

My first car

You never forget your first car! In the process of transferring the previous post I came across this photo :)  Can you spot me the head sticking out, lol.
I have loads of memories associated with this old skiedonk.
It had a big exhaust that meant it could be heard from kilometers away. One of my friends said that their TV distorted when I pulled up :)
We had a blast with it, and even did a trip down to Margate from Johannesburg with it for the Y2K new-years celebration. We almost had to turn back but after some fiddling in the engine at the first service station it managed to make it all the way there and back. Was about 7 hours there and 7 back.
The steering weel had about a 10 degree "give" after someone (guy in the blue in the photo :)) drove it over a side-walk, but that didn't stop me from driving it for another year before I bought by second car with some money I inherited from Oupa Daan (my namesake :))

My 21st

I had the option of a party or a trip to a warm water (at the time it was called Warm baths or Warm Bad) resort for my 21st with a couple of friends. Guess which one I picked :)
It was a great weekend. As I recall one entire boot of one car was dedicated to alcohol. But we also had some amazing Ribs (wonder if they still make them in Witpoortjie)
I have a fond slighly hazy memory of making up shooters and getting a moth full of curdled Kalua with Sours... I think we called it the snot-ball shot :)

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

JsonRequest.com simple data server

I'm please to announce my new website jsonrequest.com

JsonRequest.com provides a cheap and easy way to serve data to your mobile app or website, or just a way to test how your application reacts to different JSON responses from a server.

Its free to use, and currently I don't have limits set on its usage.

Please let me know if you have any ideas for me to make it better and more useful to you!