NVDL now 32nd in SA blogs, 7th in News and Politics - but NVDL soon to retire, and take up triathlon

This is very odd. It's good though to be in the close company of a blog I greatly admire, Urban Sprout.

I've been really sick with the flu this whole week, and gave blogging a big re-think, and had made up my mind to impose sanctions on the blogging community (and my blog), and spread my wings in the real world, more particularly in running and cycling shoes and in the pool. Triathlon season is coming up, and I set the 1st of Spring as Day 1 to start training 6 days a week. I haven't been able to train for the first three days, but on the fourth day I think I'll do a few easy swimming laps and see how I feel for some 5am cycling Friday and Saturday.

Does the new found popularity of NVDL change anything? Mostly no. I can't see NVDL staying where it is for very long. The next big story might be that Britney and Paris are getting married, and I couldn't be bothered with that. These Hurricanes though are getting - I believe, the world to sit up and listen.

These storms are a brilliant illustration of the cycle of life - oil gets pumped out of the Gulf, cities form around industry, cities impact the surrounding countryside (destroying marshland, allowing more land to disappear under the sea), oil and energy visits other parts of the world and gets burned up in cars and industry, pollution and degradation continues, over time the deserts of Africa and the Atlantic get warmer than usual, more and more storms brew and what happens? In a great irony, they revisit the source of all this industry as wave upon wave of catastrophic storms.

It's a story about consequences, and I think people COLLECTIVELY are starting to take notice. Katrina seemed like a one-off. We're starting to hear the canary's shriek, that maybe fundamental changes are underway that will change the destiny's of entire cities. That affects everyone and everyone wants to know about that.

Before I get carried away, I need to put on those running shoes. Hey, I see Leanne Manas has become my 'friend' on Facebook. Cool. Jeepers,I think I friend requested her late in the previous century. Now she is a GREAT PERSON.