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“My Cape Town”

by Wizard on June 19, 2010

“My Cape Town” by I Scream and the Chocolate Stix. I love the song, I love the video and I especially love the “vuvuzela” chorus! Nice one guys!

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I laughed when I saw this. It reminded me of this often used quotation: “It is clear that one is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans; the other a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen.” ~Chancellor of Cambridge University, date unknown (pre 1953). (via RL1908.com)

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How relevant is Bing in South Africa?

February 22, 2010

Inspired by Mark Littlewood ‘s post at The Business Leaders Network on “Bing vs Google” and Alex Kelleher’s post on analysing the “Google alphabet“, here’s what the two search engines have to say about South Africa. In short, we’re looking at the “auto-complete” feature offered by each search engine. It’s a drop-down list of the [...]

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Debunking Internet email hoaxes & urban legends

June 29, 2009

Ever received an e-mail message with the subject “Cookie Recipe from Woolies” or what about the email where the last graphic minutes of A330 Air France Flight 447 are recorded on a Casio Z750 and later retrieved from a memory stick? My favourite one is still the “Shark Attacking Helicopter”. It was even “nominated” by [...]

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The Festival of St John, 2009

June 26, 2009

Earlier this week we celebrated St. John’s Festival (not rugby) at my son’s school, Michael Mount. Some of my favourite photo’s from the evening are displayed below. This year my dad is visiting on a working holiday from France, so we dragged him along. Naturally, he wanted to know what the festival is all about. [...]

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Quote of the day for 2007-12-21

December 22, 2007

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. – J. B. S. Haldane

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The Matrix movie trilogy, watched all at once

December 20, 2007

December 16 is a public holiday (“Day of Reconciliation“) in South Africa. It has become a tradition in my family to pick a movie series and watch the entire thing on or around this day. This is the fourth year we’ve done this. Previous sagas include the entire extended edition of The Lord of The [...]

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What is the biggest contributor to global warming?

September 28, 2007

Unless you’ve been living in a cave (and inadvertently reducing your environmental footprint) you’ll know that there’s a lot of buzz around global warming. I find it really, though, odd that one of the biggest contributors to global warming is glossed over and often-time not even mentioned. Can you guess what it is? In late [...]

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Quote of the day for 2007-07-20

July 21, 2007

No one animal’s life is any less sacred than another’s. It’s hypocritical to protect some animals, and yet eat others just because we don’t call them pets. – James Cromwell

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Quote of the day for 2007-07-06

July 6, 2007

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? – Jules Feiffer

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