This year my mantra has largely been
“Live life and use technology as if it is the year 2005″.
By and large I’m getting there – My car has a lot of technology built in. I’ve got wireless internet at home. I can surf from anywhere in my house. I’ve streamlined my ability to migrate across [...]

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Today I wanted to perform a search on Jonga.co.za, South Africa’s newest search engine. I, however, really did not feel like opening another tab in Firefox and typing out ‘double-you double-you double-you dot jay oh’ etc. etc.. – I was in serious lazy mode, so instead I created a handy Search Engine addition for Firefox’s [...]

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At long last I saw Batman Begins on Sunday, and what a good show it was! With an excellent storyline, intense special effects, and the perfect balance of convincing acting, this is without a doubt the best Batman movie yet.
Here’s hoping the new Superman movie lives up to the same high standard.
Technorati Tags: batman, movies, [...]

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On Friday Brad, Nadia, Willem and I spent the afternoon at Gold Reef City.
Unfortunately the length of our visit could not be too long because we visited the Apartheid Museum earlier that day. Added to that we had an incompetent waiter or two where we tried to have lunch which delayed our afternoon even further. [...]

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I don’t check Stormhoek’s website that often (note to self: add feed to new feed reader), but I was wonderfully surprised when I read on gapingvoid about a few new “hacks” being implemented at Stormhoek.

Here’s the new intro on the site:
‘new zealand has the best tech for making white wine. but south africa has better [...]

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The Fedora Project have just released version 1.0 of Fedora Directory Server. It is interesting that this announcement comes at a similar time as Sun announcing the open sourcing of Sun Java System Directory Server.
If you take a look at the screenshots, you will realize that these products – iPlanet Directory, Netscape Directory Server, [...]

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So how aligned am I with the company I work for?
Here’s a comment from Jonathan Schwartz about the release of most of the Sun enterprise software stack for free (sans support and warranty):
From a fading star, Schwartz said, Sun will become the software industry’s “rock star.”
Welcome to my point of view, Jonathan.
Just one [...]

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Living in the land of hot summers and mediocre winters, we don’t get to play much in the arena of winter sports, which makes this snowboard simulator just that much more desirable.

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