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Monthly Archives: July 2009
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
My slides from the talk I gave on Spectrum 2.0 at the GeekDinner: gd-joe-2009-07v1.pdf (163KB) The slides are very basic, but at least the presentation had a bit more structure than the one I gave at the last 27 Dinner. … Continue reading
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SwimGeek BNT
I sold out people. I’m on Twitter now. Well, kinda. A few people were bugging me about using Twitter. I’ve had a Twitter account for a while but never used it. The social pressure was just getting too much and … Continue reading
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Audi MVP Day
You should have seen Gaby when she got out of the R8. Shaking like a leaf, but big smiles all around. A few weeks ago my Audi was in for a minor service. I was having lunch with Cath (another … Continue reading
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Quick Update
The hot cars, the hot cameras, the hot chicks.. Monday, tea, scrambled eggs on toast, a cable car contour road run with Ingi, Andrew made a nice Snoek dish for dinner, a very good bottle of Waterford Chardonnay 2008 and … Continue reading
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Quick Update
Mostly home alone this week.. Monday, tea, fresh juice, watched some Spungebob, gym, swim, smoothie, bunny chow at Knead, took Hilda some flowers for her birthday, pancakes at Jimmy’s with Mia and her mother, tea and dinner at Andrew’s mom’s. … Continue reading
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The Way I Work
Just for fun.. actually, this is a bit of an experiment. I’d like to write another one of these in about 6 months and see if I’ve improved (not sure on which metrics yet). You may recognise some of this … Continue reading
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Orders of Magnitude
This is probably one of those analysing the obvious posts.. Ever get tired of boundaries? I go to gym, I swim 1km, I could maybe swim 2km.. but swimming 10km is a very long distance.. how about 100km? Computers don’t … Continue reading
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How did you become successful?
Mia and I went to the Book Lounge on Roeland street today. They read children’s stories at 11:00ish and serve cupcakes.. which look alarmingly similar to the cupcakes at A is for Apple.. maybe alarming because I recognised the cupcakes … Continue reading
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Gautrain Article
I was waiting for my morning smoothie at Crush when I noticed this article in The Times today: World Cup preparations back on track Nice article. Jack van der Merwe my uncle. He seems to be doing a very good … Continue reading
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Joe on MyBroadband
I was quoted in a MyBroadband article today: Good WiMax news on its way I obviously don’t like the title.. this is supposed to be technology neutral spectrum, but I have to smile at the last bit.. “said well known … Continue reading
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Wireless Broadband World Africa 2009
I was a speaker at Wireless Broadband World Africa today at the CTICC. I presented on Industry Self-Regulation, WAPA and the OSA. I had some good feedback and one delegate commented that he liked my idea that self regulation is … Continue reading
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Track Record
I’ve been pondering the idea that we should judge results and not intentions. So I scribbled down a list of businesses I’ve been a founder of or involved in since 1996. The total was 10. I would call 3 a … Continue reading
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