Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I’m working late again tonight.
I have a hot date tomorrow evening, and I don’t want to leave the project unfinished. So instead of going home, I pop out quickly to buy an unhealthy dinner.
When I climb out of the car, a man approaches me.
“Would you like a flower?”, he says. He is holding out a [...]
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There’s a story about a Zen master and student drinking tea. The student keeps asking stupid questions until the master pours a cup of tea until it overflows. When the student stops the master, the master tells the student that he can’t learn anything until he empties his cup.
Descartes said that we first have to [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, Eskom threatened to restart load shedding. I just spent 6 hours in the dark at work. City Power Johannesburg’s website makes no mention of resumed load shedding, but I’m still worried.
Is the resumption of load shedding being kept quiet, and passed off as “normal” outages?
Apparently not much. iSummit seems a great and noble venture, but it seems to be more disconnected from reality with each passing year.
It completely ignores the aspect of access. It’s being held in Japan this year. In Japan! Can you afford a ticket to Japan? Didn’t think so. You can try to attend the Second [...]
One of the required subjects for a computer science degree at UNISA is CEM101, which is apparently equivalent to the ICDL.
I already know how to sling a keyboard, so I did the CEM101 module through recognition of prior learning (RPL). The handling fee for the RPL process was R 145.00 (payable once only), and [...]
As if our country isn’t ignorant enough already. See PFangirl’s post for details.
After having cleaned out 50 spam comments in one day, I decided that enough was enough.
So, after 10 minutes of hard Googling, coding and theme adaption, my blog is finally making use of the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin.
It’s quick, it’s simple, and it Kills Spam Bots Dead because it makes them Eat Flaming Death.
I’ve written about open content learning materials before. In that post I mentioned that I’ve been trying to talk to people in UNISA for a while now, and on Tuesday (3 June), I finally got the promised meeting.
I met with Prof. Wendy Kilfoil (Director of the Institute for Curriculum and Learning Development), and Mr Deon [...]
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 [...]
At the beginning of this year, I started studying for a BSc in Computer Science at UNISA. Naturally I tried to get exemption for the modules I have already completed at CTI, but it turns out that the diploma that my parents and I paid about R35 000 for is worthless.
On the front page of [...]
