If you think that Goth is hot, cool or shiny (thank you Firefly), don’t forget to attend the Gothic Invasion of the Joburg Zoo on Sun the 1st of June 2008. That’s this weekend folks, so you better polish up your leather trench coat and Goth boots!
For a long time, government has indirectly condoned the influx of foreigners by taking a soft stance on illegal immigration, and by denying that there actually is any problem.
Now that xenophobic violence is tearing the country apart, government is doing a stunningly bad job of communicating it’s position to it constituency. Words won’t stem the [...]
I saw these JetFlash V30 4GB USB Drives on Kalahari.net a week or so ago. I checked around, and at R150 for 4GB, it looks as if they’re pretty much the cheapest USB drives around at the moment. So I ordered two yesterday, and they arrived about an hour ago.
They only actually store 3.8 GiB, [...]
It’s a “water based flavored drink”! So what exactly are other drinks based on, eh?
And it contains only 65 Kilojoules or Less per 100ml. A bit of quick math: 65 kJ * 340 ml = 221 kJ. That’s about the same amount you find in a can of Appletizer.
So, your water based flavored drink tastes [...]
I arrived early, a small miracle considering the traffic in Joburg, and my temporally incongruous tendencies. (”I’m not late Ma, I’m just temporally incongruous!”)
Was a bit intimidated at first, but after I picked a table to sit down at, it turned out to be really interesting. (Translation: I managed to ambush people with my theories, [...]
Hey. I know where you can get some music online. Shhh!
Why am I whispering? It’s all legal. You get to listen to streaming audio online for free. If you hear something you like (or love), you can shell out to download high quality tracks, or even have a CD printed and shipped to you. [...]
It’s 27 Dinner time again, and this month it’s being held in Johannesburg. It will be held at Primi Piatti, Melrose Arch on 27 May at 18:30 for 19:00. There’s space for 100 participants, and there’s about 20 spaces left, so if you hurry, you can still attend.
Remember to join the facebook group for 27 [...]
While the rest of South Africa denounces the xenophobic attacks, socialist groups are fanning the flames by saying that capitalists are the enemy.
The hate that we are seeing is clearly motivated by a sense of entitlement. Statements like “foreigners are stealing our jobs, houses and women” prove it. Now these socialist organizations are bolstering that [...]
MIT’s OpenCourseWare project is giving free access to all their course notes, exams, recorded lectures and other course materials. All the material is open access and open content. MIT does not confer degrees for working through the OCW materials, but you are free to educate yourself.
I’ve tried using some of the OCW material, and it’s [...]
Despite the low sales of the OLPC project’s XO-1, and the Windows/Linux troubles that the project is going through, it’s already had some beneficial effects. For one thing, it has firmly established a market for Linux subnotebooks:
The OLPC’s XO-1 runs (for the moment) a version of Fedora Linux
Intel’s Classmate PC runs a version of Mandriva [...]
