Monthly Archives: May 2008

My take on Xenophobia

It’s the biggest word in most tag clouds in the SA blogosphere at the moment. I think it’s more about hate and desperation than fear.. as the buzzword suggests. Bad news sells, but like most bad news.. in a week … Continue reading

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Story Series Part 3 : Amobia

From the Story series.. The brief history of Amobia. Before Amobia was founded Early in 2002 David Jarvis contacted Joe after finding his personal homepage, looking for Linux geeks to help him build a wireless network in Cape Town. It … Continue reading

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WP CPT Meetup and GeekDinner

Turned out I was a bit too lazy to prepare two talks.. so I only gave a talk at the WordPress meetup and not the GeekDinner. Here are my WordPress Security talk slides. The WordPress meetup was fun. Way more … Continue reading

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Amobia Interview with Business Opportunities Mazagine

John Thwaits, technology journalist for BizAssist Technologies interviewed me about Amobia. The article should be in Business Opportunities magazine soon. I asked him if I could publish an online version here.. Amobia Communications Broadens the Wireless Horizon Amobia Communications builds … Continue reading

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New Photo Album Theme

Spot the difference.. The Old and the New Pics are from.. Lions Head, Barcelona (2), Cape Town (2), Miam Miam, Bordeaux. ps. You’ll only be able to see the change until I run my album sync script again on Monday.

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Joe on ITWeb

More news on WAPA’s VANS self provisioning case.. DOC to oppose WAPA court application ps. this Johann has two n’s.

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Quick Update

Snapshot from the life of Joe.. Today: Had a chill Sunday. Went for a walk around Mouille Point. Ended up in Caffe Neo and stuffed myself with a very nice salad selection. I updated the WAPA website. I discovered the … Continue reading

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iBurst, Vodacom and Amobia technologies

Somebody emailed me saying they’re interestend in Amobia’s Broadband service but.. they were an iBurst customer for a while, they are now a Vodacom customer and because of all the hardware costs involved they can’t really motivate another switch. I … Continue reading

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Joe on IOL Technology

An article about Frogfoot’s Hotspot business.. Make bucks off your broadband

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Cryptic Movie Reviews

I’m not There – Not bad if you like a bit of obscurism (yes, it’s the Bob Dylan movie) Dan in Real Life – Excellent

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MP and the DoC not singing the same tune on VANS self provisioning

Just to make the VANS self provisioning debate a bit more interesting, We have two peculiar opposing views… all in the space of 48 hours. First,.. In addition to the announcements on new operators, Khumalo also said government wanted VANS … Continue reading

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Joe on IOL Technology

More news about Amobia JHB, WAPA and SchoolWAN.. JHB wireless ring performing well

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