Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Following my post two days ago on why the Zuma decision is wrong, Pierre de Vos has written two posts on the matter on his excellent Constitutionally Speaking blog. They are really worth a read from a legal point of view - and give hope that legally challenges currently underway ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
After somehow being on the Afrigreater winners list, I have just ordered my Springleap tshirt - pictured right. I'm pretty stoked :D - it's an awesome prize for a competition like this.
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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 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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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I'm sure something like this exists elsewhere - but I haven't seen it - so I think this is very cool. It's a Android App which overlays what your camera is viewing (ie showing you on your screen) with information about landmarks you can see - something called 'Augmented Reality'.
See ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Well maybe calling it a hobby is going a bit too far; but in the theme of my last post I have began to follow the South African section of the SkyscraperCity forums. I'm not sure what it is, but keeping track of what is happening with the CTI Airport ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
One can argue for hours about the benefits and detriments of hosting the 2010 World Cup - but anyone has to conceed that having the event on our doorstep is going to be fun. Somehow this video brough that home to me.
Seen first at coda.co.za.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Right. Sitting here, power just came back on - blame Eskom. Decide to try this personal blogging thing again - probably a stupid idea, but what the hell. Install Wordpress (again), install theme (note to self - make a new one) - start writing first post.
How does a first post ...
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