Maggie's Place

Hogsback end of year inter-denominational church service and lunch – Hogsback Community Network

Maggie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:23:07 +0000

Jane’s social learning presentations

Maggie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:57:09 +0000

more about "My social learning presentations – on…", posted with vodpod

Maggie Verster’s Photostream

Maggie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:40:21 +0000

more about "Maggie Verster’s Photostream", posted with vodpod

A magical time in Hogsback

Maggie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:45:03 +0000

I did a reflection of the magical time we spend in Hogsback on my www.ilifu.org.za blog. To read and comment, click here

more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod

How To Connect Your Laptop To Your Television (Technology & Cars: Home Entertainment)

Maggie — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:05:13 +0000

more about "How To Connect Your Laptop To Your Te…", posted with vodpod

Hogsback July 2009

Maggie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:29:30 +0000

more about "Hogsback July 2009", posted with vodpod

Maggie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:57:01 +0000

Dont’ e-mail,FB or call me: twitter me!

Maggie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:02:18 +0000

As everybody know I have been having an on-off relationship with my Cell phone for years. Cell phones do not like me. They break, grow legs, and mostly get alienated from their power cables. I have tried moving over to smart cell phones. They make matters even worse. They are power- hogging little devices out to cripple Eskom and I find myself (that is if I remembered to plug in /had a power cable) without any power by tea time! Also, my eyesight has now officially progressed past puberty and I am struggling to read which new reading glasses I should acquire. But I am digressing. Maybe I just want to mention that I do believe in cell phones as great learning devices and will use it more actively the moment I found my charger cable!

So how do you contact/get hold of me? As you have gathered by now, phoning me on my cell phone might not be a good way to go. In the past e-mail was a very effective way to get my attention. But since I have not been able to catch up on the 3000 e-mails that accumulated during my Christmas virtual break, I have funnelled my e-mail into folders and play eenie-meanie-minie-mo on which folder I will read every day. Those who know me, know to mark their e-mail as high priority (I check that folder a few times a day)

So what is the best way? My current favourite way of communication is Twitter. I had to smile at my niece, who, on failure to contact me on my cell and landlines (Telkom took 2 weeks to fix it), resorted to see what I am up to on my twitter feed. Clever girl. Contacting me is as easy as sending me an @maggiev or direct message (d maggiev) at www.twitter.com/maggiev . And yes, it does get delivered to my cell phone via sms as well!

What actually inspired this blogpost is this cartoon:

A 5 minute chocolate cake

Maggie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:15:53 +0000

I sometimes use my blog as a way to safeguard things that I definitely need to get to again in emergency situations! This 5 minute chocolate cake looks like it could come in very handy from time to time! Thank you Adele for sending it to me- a lifesaver!

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high).
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world?

Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

SARS scam warning

Maggie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:51:49 +0000

A new phishing scam is doing the round and even though I cannot believe that people can still be gullable to this kind of thing, I am putting it here as a warning.

Emails received by taxpayer from an address refund@sars.gov.za with the subject line Tax Refund should immediately be regarded as a scam and IGNORED by taxpayers. Taxpayers must NOT provide their banking details as requested in the email.

It will take you to a page that looks quite authentic. Please do not fall for this! Delete the e-mail!

A way to tell if a page is fake is to look at the address bar. Quite clearly this site has got nothing to do with SARS and it is not a secure page as it does not say https

Don’t get caught, ever!