Thursday, November 6, 2008
For a while now I’ve been looking for the song in the Purity baby food advert that had the kid taping his stationary to a desk, watching TV upside down, and lying on the floor of an elevator while it goes up.
They lyrics go something like this:
He plays in secret places
Eyes wise and wide
Charmed little [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
Moving data into South Africa is expensive, but moving it around inside the country doesn’t have to be.
Freedom toasters are a great way to move data inside the country, but there aren’t enough of them to go around. This is probably because they cost about R 39 000 each.
One alternative is a cheap Network Attached [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Owen Swart commented on the reaction to the Zapiro cartoon today. He points out that rather than refuting the accusation, the alliance parties are attacking the cartoonist, his editor, and the press. He also points out that their current statements contradict earlier ones.
This got me wondering. How long before someone starts tracking political statements, and [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Zapiro sure has done it this time. I can understand that the ANC is livid, but why is Michael Trapido disappointed?
Personally, I fully support the man’s right to express exactly what I’ve been thinking, and I’m not the only one.
Source: Sunday Times (Via Irreverence)
UPDATE (8 Sep): The ANC, SACP and ANCYL are calling the cartoon [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I like blogging, because it’s still so experimental. Internationally, they might be talking about traditional blogging, but in South Africa we probably don’t even have a thousand serious bloggers.
New media is so new here that we’re still experimenting with “traditional” new media. I want wilder experiments.
Take podcasts for example. Nic Haralambous has tried to [...]
Nobuhle Khumalo was beat to death with knobkieries by her classmates for choosing celibacy.
I don’t have the words.
Girl killed for being a virgin (Via Chris Roper)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Twitter is ending SMS support in the UK, because it’s costing them too much.
This got me thinking. Most cellphones these days have internet connectivity. The data cost of an SMS is negligible. (You want to do the math? Think R 2.00 / 1,048,576 bytes * 200 chars). Yes, I know about IM, but it’s still [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
On Monday morning, angry commuters set 20 buses on fire. Their reason? They said they couldn’t get any tickets. This was after Putco said that they could ride for free. Why couldn’t they get tickets? Because when corrupt ticket sellers were suspended, the new ones sent in to replace them were chased away.
The articles said [...]
I’m creating a new niche blog called Otakumono to focus on geeky entertainment in South Africa. Things like anime, fiction, comics, manga, games, movies, roleplaying, conventions, medieval reenactment, and so on. You get the idea.
Now all I have to do is figure out what the heck I want to blog about in Constant Flux.
Oh, [...]
Many of you already know that Paypal does not allow South African users to receive payments. Not even from other South Africans!
What many of you may not know is that Setcom does allow you to receive international payments, although they don’t allow you to make international payments. You should expect to lose between 3% and [...]
