Archive for the ‘South Africa’ Category
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Are South African online retailers exempt from consumer security issues? It seems like some of them just don't care, most notably, Kalahari.com.
Last week Friday I noticed an item appear in my basket on the site, a soft cover technical book. I was quite surprised and equally quite concerned as I ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
On Sunday a bunch of us got together to celebrate Madiba Day at Zoo Lake as part of the 67 Minutes for Mandela campaign: Mr Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place. We're asking you for 67 minutes." Nelson Mandela turns 91 ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
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 ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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 - ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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 ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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 ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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 ...
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