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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Leaving the City
Had breakfast at Melissas today. Man, I love that grapefruit juice. I attended the ISPA meeting most of the afternoon, where I mentioned that iBurst are playing the self appointed industry regulator. They are dishing out disinformation to confuse the … Continue reading
Highjacking the GeekDinner back
So I’m a bitch, sorry. Joburg can keep 27. Let’s bring the Cape Town Geek Dinner back. Original and best. rwhois search on ‘geekdinner.org.za’: GEEKDINNER_1172654850_ORGZA (geekdinner.org.za) Johann Botha P.O. Box 23618, Claremont, 7735 Administrative Contact: Frogfoot DNS Tel: 0216893867 Fax: … Continue reading
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Nightswimming GeekDinner
27 Dinner. Yes. My comments. First a disclaimer, I blame this on the fine Tanqueray No. Ten I had tonight, this includes the language. Next, three quotes, the first is from the song I listened to on the way home. … Continue reading
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Web PR Day
Today I attended the Web PR conference at the BMW pavilion. I was not sure what to expect. It is easy to be sceptical of marketing droids armed with technology buzzword weapons… “Set phasers to DUMB”. All in all, the … Continue reading
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Design Indaba, Internet-Zero
I’m nakkered after 11 hours at the Design Indaba. Not easy being “all smiles” for that amount of time. Actually I’m too tired to blog, but.. The Lush and I ran into each other.. again she beat me to blogging … Continue reading
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The scar Haircut
Today I went for the Scar Haircut experience. For those not in the know, Scar is the definitive name in the Cape Town alternative haircut scene. Scar is in Kloof Street, which is within walking distance from where I live. … Continue reading
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Live from the Design Indaba
Only 10 Minutes before the opening of Design Indaba 2007. People are busy doing the last minute things to get their stands ready. Nice vibe. The Frogfoot stand is ready. I’m using my 3G – bluetooth link, which strangely enough … Continue reading
Time to take a stand, liberate SA telecoms
The insects at iBurst have just laid a formal complaint against WISPs with ICASA. This has been confirmed. You know what this means right? Strategically this will unite the Wireless ISPs and they will fight back. The WAPA meeting on … Continue reading
Amobia in the News
Amobia’s role in our school connectivity project was featured on Tectonic today in the article : Embedded Linux, wireless connects 50 schools. Amobia is planning on expanding its coverage area to Paarl. The embedded Linux CPE OS is developed by … Continue reading
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The hot librarian category
Notes on pondering how the human brain computes attraction. Today, while spinning, I was, as usual, in the presence of many hot females. This can be a bit distracting. How do you concentrate when your eyes constantly get drawn to, … Continue reading
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Frog Interview Day
I was lazy yesterday, so you’re getting all the Monday and Tuesday news in one posting. Monday was one of those crazy days, there was the email flood, I typed 70+ emails spanning three (company) outboxes, we’re busy migrating about … Continue reading
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Amobia, the brief history
I wrote an email over the weekend to give a potential employee some background about Amobia. Today I figured it could be good material for a blog posting. Amobia is looking for Senior Systems Engineer(s), so if you read this, … Continue reading
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