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Alpha Geek, Imagineer, Hacker for Good.
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At the moment Joe writes weekly bullet lists about what keeps him busy.. also, ideas, lifestyle design, music, entrepreneurship and how to change the world.
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Category Archives: GeekDinner
TrustFabric GeekDinner Launch
Last night I gave the first public presentation about TrustFabric at the GeekDinner. I think it went well. A number of people asked to join our alpha service and there were some good questions after the talk, which makes me … Continue reading
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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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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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GeekDinner Interview Recording
Mignon from SAfm was kind enough to send me a recording of my SAfm GeekDinner interview at the end of last year. I’ve massaged it a bit with Audicity and created a 56Kbps MP3, 10 minutes, 4.1MB: joe-geekdinner-safm-56kbps.mp3 ps. Yeah, … Continue reading
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Story of the GeekDinner
I was asked to do a short write up on how the GeekDinners came about for a radio interview on SAfm tonight. The origin of the GeekDinners.. well, this my version. I think Rob first told (me) the story of … Continue reading
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SAfm Interview
I’ll be interviewed on SAfm‘s Evening Talk show about the GeekDinners.. between 19:45 and 20:00, Tuesday 30 Dec 2008. Should be interesting.. I think the last radio interview I did was about SETI@Home (-; SAfm 104 – 107, you can … Continue reading
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November GeekDinner and The Hub Project
I attended the November GeekDinner at Adesso in Rondebosch on Thursday night. Nice evening, good food and a fun group of people at my table. I met Matthew and Frerieke. We missed our regular sound engineer and MC. We had … Continue reading
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Quick Update
This weeks’ update seems to have been delayed.. I blame the awesome weather. Monday, gym, swim, ISPA mancom meeting, watched Perfume.. good movie. Tuesday, gym, swim, uber-juice, Tamboerskloof steps run, beer and pizza at Carlisles in Vredehoek. Wednesday, Lions Head … Continue reading
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Quick Update
The weekly dose of me, me me… Monday, dropped Mia off at school, tea with her mom, since I always drive by the place and wonder what’s inside I stopped and visited Lady Chatterley’s Chamber on Kloofnek ..most interesting, burger … Continue reading
Posted in Cape Town, Extreme Networks, GeekDinner, Teraco, WAPA
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Quick Update
Busy week, kinda lost track of what I as up to.. mostly because I was moving and it was school holidays so Mia was around Thursday-Sunday.. Monday, signed the new lease, gym, swim. Tuesday, moving, figured out the electricity and … Continue reading
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September GeekDinner
A few people asked me to upload my slides from the GeekDinner at Asoka. A bit overdue, but I was moving house.. so I’m writing this in the new place sipping a glass of Chardonnay, looking out over the city … Continue reading
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Quick Update
Just a week in the life of Joe.. Monday, interview with The Times about the VANS>ECNS mess, house shopping in Tamboerskloof, cable car run, R29 burgers at Jamaica me Crazy, OC s1 d2. Happy Banana Republic day. I now have … Continue reading
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