March 23rd, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
Paging through the Mail & Guardian the other day, someone asked me whether I’d seen that Patricia had been in a porn movie.
Patricia de Lille in a porn movie?..
March 21st, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
You’re probably wondering what the mighty, yet new Google news has in common with the mighty veteran AFP (Agence France Presse), and the embryonic Wikinews.
Wikinews is starting to gain some momentum…
March 20th, 2005 in Earth (Literature) ·
Walton recommended a rare treat of a book, and I’ve managed to steal enough time, and let Dorje get up to just enough havoc in order to finish it.
The treat in question was After the Eclipse by Tom Rymour (published by Discobolus)…
March 20th, 2005 in Water (Personal) ·
I’ve volunteered (and been accepted) to become an editor on dmoz, the open directory used by many search engines…
March 18th, 2005 in Earth (Literature) ·
I’ve made my 500th edit to Wikipedia (at least to the English version…
March 16th, 2005 in Water (Personal) ·
My cellphone was stolen again. It’s certainly ironic two days after a post entitled Happiness is a new cellphone. It was a classic diversion…
March 15th, 2005 in Fire (Social)
Well, the secret of IOL’s departure from Newspaper House is out. We were moved to make way for a new tabloid called the Daily Voice.
The new tabloid is apparently seen by Independent Newspapers as a spoiler…
March 13th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
Cellphone marketing seems to have undergone a change recently. Cellphones at first were a status symbol, something that only the supposed elite possessed. But thanks to good marketing, and of course the fact that they’re extremely useful, almost everyone who could afford one soon got one…
March 11th, 2005 in Fire (Social) ·
Perhaps they’ve taken my advice from yesterday, but 20Twenty will soon be no more.
My first glance at the mail to all their clients led me to believe they were closing down (and hence the slightly misleading heading for this post), but luckily it’s just the branding that will change…
March 9th, 2005 in Metal (Technical) ·
Apparently, Standard Bank has recently closed down 8 phishing sites in the last 4 weeks (according to an ITWeb article)…
