Posted in General on Jul 1st, 2009
And It Always Backfires
I don’t usually react strongly to views others have shared on their blogs. After all, the blogosphere is the perfect arena to share your thoughts and speak your mind; and everyone is entitled to their opinions.
I did - however - find myself making an exception to letting things slide when I came [...]
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Posted in General on Apr 6th, 2009
I was reading a book on business and the way disruptive technologies changed the rules for centuries. Safe, secure jobs of one form or another were suddenly wiped out when these changes came around.
Naturally, there are professions that have been with us since the dawn of civilization, and they’ll be with us for a long, [...]
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Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2009
I’m no financial guru, so please take what you are about to read with a pinch of salt. This is not meant to be taken as expert advice. Just an honest opinion of what I would do in these turbulent economic times if I could still afford to keep my house.
I would not sell it. [...]
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Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2009
Just to be on the clear, I have not tested this site on internet exlplorer 6 (IE6) and do not intend to do so. It renders ok on Firefox, Chrome, and IE7.
This is my way of giving a vote of no confidence to IE6, a mistake of a browser that was replaced many years ago. [...]
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Posted in General on Feb 18th, 2009
Micheal Moore’s next movie looks at Wall Street and what he dubs the “biggest swindle in American history.” He’s called on people from banking, brokerage and insurance industries to come forward to talk about their experiences and what went on as the crisis unfolded.
“Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe there are anumber of you who [...]
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Posted in General, Projects on Feb 17th, 2009
A couple of years back I came accross a blog article that listed acouple of Sout African web-startups to watch.
As you can imagine, the article generated a lot of comments. Some good, some nasty, and some just plain spaced out. One particular comment caught my attention and has been troubling me ever since.
The fellow wrote something [...]
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Posted in General on Feb 14th, 2009
The title was inspired by this photo that I found through Flickr. I just loved it’s texture and I just fell in love with it. I wrote this post and sourced the picture from flickr entirely from within the Bee console.
When I get some spare time I intend to enhance Bee to be more tightly [...]
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