Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
During the US Presidential Elections (I think it was during the primary season) I remember a web app which allowed the user to specify their political views and they were then helped in finding the candidates which best mirror those views.
My plan is to make something similar for these elections, ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
I understood that the ANC had already lined up a candidate to become the next head of the NPA - but I didn't know that the same person was once a member of Jacob Zuma's legal team.
Hopefully things will not go that far; it seems like Parliament will rubber-stamp Pikoli's ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
I always have in my mind using holidays for getting personal projects finished up, but somehow I'm never quite as productive as I plan to be.
So this holiday I've managed to win something (still wondering how the prizes work - Springleap shirts are cool, oh well :)), develop the new ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The website of the 'South African Representative to the Palestinian National Authority' (closest thing to an embassy they are allowed, I guess) has a link to the 'Letter from the leader of the African National Congress' - linking to the ANC home page. Clearly this is no mislink to an ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
One of the leading stories on the Mail and Guardian's website is "Security Council stint a milestone for SA, says gov" and the entire article is a regurgitation of why the Department of Foreign Affairs thinks it did a good job - with absolutely no rebuttal of this pathetic claim.
The ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I don't know if it is just me, but I really do think that local news sources just don't get it right. While parading new media sources such as video, their websites are still badly structured, suffer from a lack of constant new content and, most annoying of all, all ...
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