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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Safe as Houses
Just before the GeekDinner I was thinking about somebody (ex-friend of a friend kinda thing) who recently lost pretty much everything.. a whole string of properties included. He now pretty much spends his days crying. It’s messy. I used to … Continue reading
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Mystery
People often ask me about my website.. looking at me in a strange way and saying something like.. “but, you have everything about you on your website?”. Kinda. Everything that I’m happy to share. That’s what personal websites are for … Continue reading
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Humans with Guns
A crazy way to measure your ideas.. let’s say you have a big idea that you think could change the world. Could humans with guns stop the idea? Would they want to? Remember kids, Anarchy means “without leaders”; not “without … Continue reading
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Quick Update
Just digging for fire.. Monday, spinning. Nothing else to report. Tuesday, walked around Lions Head, walked from Clifton 4th to 1st and back, soccer at La Med with Andy and Steff, Camps Bay club for burgers and a few non-alcholic … Continue reading
Teraco Launch Function
Last night Teraco hosted a launch event for its first data centre at Great Westerford for about 200 people. About 100 people went for a data centre tour and about 50 travelled all the way from Joburg for the event. … Continue reading
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The 80/20 Teraco Sales Pitch
Why Teraco? Well, in short.. Let’s say you are hosting in a (non-vendor-neutral) data centre. About 20% of your spending goes towards hosting – 80% goes towards connectivity. Now, spend the same 20% with Teraco and see how you get … Continue reading
Muppets
Since it’s Friday, I figure we need pictures of Muppets.. have a fun weekend kids. '
The Cost of a Social Network
Forget for a moment that the new Facebook homepage sucks. I’ve been thinking, social networks cost money. Well, to grow them costs money. Sure you have a number of school/university friends you can easily add, but after that.. totally new … Continue reading
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Lark
Two weeks ago I watched a Lark show at Klein Libertas in Stellenbosch. Nice show. I first saw Lark in Cape Town around 2004 at some Russian theme restaurant (which closed soon after and I can’t remember the name now). … Continue reading
Message from Debby
Was checking out the invite to Mia’s birthday, saw all the other interesting stuff on your site, lost about 30min of my life reading about yours, ended up imdb-ing Rushmore, spent another 5min wondering WHY I’ve never seen this movie … Continue reading
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Skinny Rabbit Arms Up
Mia often says: “skinny rabbit arms up” when you want to pull a top on/off her. She gets this from her mother. Turns out the saying comes from a technique to skin a rabbit.. since it’s easy to tear the … Continue reading
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Lots of love for JZ
I’ve been reloading a Facebook group page to see how it grows. About 3500 new people joined since I noticed it a day ago. Impressive. What could get South Africans to be this active? Our hero in a halfshell: JZ.. … Continue reading
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