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  Glow in the Dark?

  02.03.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  What is the deal with the South African government? Am I becoming an alarmist by writing this post and expressing my opinion? I honestly don’t know but I just feel the need to write my thoughts down.
  Last week the country, who had power, watched Derek Watts and the Carte Blanche team try to get to […]

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  Power to the people

  01.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I suppose its to be expected that an emerging country such as South Africa has to face so many challenges on its path forward but the recent power outages which Eskom, the national power utility, calls “load shedding” is actually just plain ridiculous. A while back Eskom implemented a load schedding schedule to reduce the […]

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  It’s plane stupid

  11.17.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  What’s up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I’m considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days:

  07 Nov - Plane in trouble over Cape Town / […]

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  Uncapped local ADSL, not lekker

  11.09.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Sometimes I wonder whether our local communications regulatory body has a clue or a backbone at all. When the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) eventually released their ADSL Regulations last year there was a requirement on local bandwidth which stated:
  Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject to the cap.

  According to a recent article […]

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  TWiT-or-tweet

  10.31.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Oh well it should really be called Trick-or-Treat but I couldn’t resist the play on words and the completely unrelated reference to the weekly tech podcast and Twitter.
  I’m not sure if I can relate to what Halloween really is about. As South Africans we don’t really celebrate Halloween. So much so I had to search […]

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  Tech-Ed 2007 day 3

  10.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Its honestly amazing how time flies when you are at Tech-Ed. I found that day three just flew past in comparison to day two; I suppose it has to do with the sheer number of sessions I attended.
  The first talk worth mentioning today was one by Angus Logan where he shared information about the Windows […]

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  Tech-Ed 2007 day 2

  10.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Today the sessions started bright and early at 08h00 which is way too early if it was work but strangely enough I found myself downstairs devouring the buffet breakfast just after 07h00. I missed attending a few sessions that I would have liked to have attended purely due to logistical issues. I didn’t know where […]

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  Tech-Ed 2007 day 1

  10.21.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Its the end of day 1 of Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa and I must say it is what I expected it to be. Apparently there are almost 2000 delegates here this year which is an impressive improvement over the 1600 delegates last year and the most delegates at any Tech-Ed event in Africa ever. […]

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  What’s up my China?

  10.18.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  So what’s up with the search engines today? The local site MyBroadband has an article up about Yahoo! redirecting to the Chinese search engine Baidu and suggested that Yahoo has been hacked. I don’t normally use Yahoo! so I checked it out and after typing in a search term I ended up on Baidu as […]

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  Wanna abseil or rap jump?

  10.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well if you are in Jozi for the weekend of the 13th of October you can join other crazy adrenalin junkies and either abseil or rap jump down the side of the Ponte City building in Johannesburg. Apparently its the tallest building in the southern hemisphere measuring in at 173 metres. The experience will […]

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