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RIP Arthur C. Clarke

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Legendary scifi author, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke died today at his home in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
May it be filled with stars.

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R8 Blues

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

An inauspicious week. Not only is the petrol price rising above R8, but yesterday Standard Bank was selling US Dollars for more than R8.  Add to that the fact that power cuts are starting again.
Gnarly.

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Bloggerati Joburg

Monday, March 3, 2008

What a blast. An unknown (possibly unknowable) number of assorted bloggers, journos, techies and new media types showed up. No higher networking purpose, just Vincent Maher and Matt Buckland looking for an excuse to throw a party. And what a party it was.
Chairs were in short supply, possibly a deliberate strategy to facilitate mingling. Their [...]

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Merry St. Tib’s Day!

Friday, February 29, 2008

The Discordians celebrate St. Tib’s Day on the 29th of February. Who St. Tib was, or what he did, nobody seems to know. Maybe he was a leapling. Maybe not. Discordians don’t really need a reason for doing anything.
Regardless, any holiday that’s good enough for Discordians is good enough for me. So I spent [...]

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