Langebaan vs Laryngitis

I should be chilling on an L34 yacht with the spinnaker up in a 20 knot south easter with craig sorting out the braai for our steak roll lunch. Mykonos will not be the same this year, I hope Norman the p@#$ croupier with the third reich tash fully appreciates my absence.

Instead I am sitting at home on the oh so slow gprs connection, sweating out laryngitis since monday. I don't regret how I got it, though (you know who you are, Sexy Time!). What really sucks is how I'm going to try convert authorised paid leave into sick leave without coming across as a weasel!

Moving on, coming to the end of a cell contract I've been doing the sums with all the networks now that MNP allows you to switch so easy. (how cuck must the LG chocolate phone be??MTN will give it to you for R39pm all inclusive on mycall 100!) Looking at the vodacom site I came across something quite interesting.

all the hectic data

A few years back I had the coolest student job ever. We got to drive around the country on a R400/day expense account. We had to measure all the Vodacom base stations on schools to see if the kids were getting their brains fried. It ended up being a part township/roadtrip/casino tour with hot steaks ordered in all corners of the land. I will never ever confuse Vredendal with Vredenburg again! Anyway, needless to say, all is well and the risk to your health is infinitismly(sp?) low. I'm sure the new data won't be much different from ours.

The funniest is the people(like on 3rd degree expose) who moan about the base stations next door giving them headaches and making their skin go blue, yet they still own a cellphone. It's equivalent to the whole triple cheeseburger and large fries with a diet soda situation. The effective radiation from a phone is much higher than a base station (it's a factor of power and distance to your body). Vodacom does the study because you choose to own a phone, but base station placement is pretty much out of your control. That whole phone in pocket frying your gonads is also YOU magazine tripe..the phone only transmits when you are talking on it(if you use those ridiculous Star Trek bluetooth headsets, then that's your Darwinian bad).

Well they actually wanted me to stay on and run the show for the whole country (we did 160 school sites, there were ~6000 base stations in total). It seemed like a real ardious job, sorting out problems with field dudes all over the country the whole day. Nice to see they're using it all in the end here. Anyway, it would have been really good $$$$'s you can imagine the dosh that vodacom splash out on these projects....your 80c sms went a long way to paying for my round of golf at the Sabi Sun.