Like everything else, even the Geek Dinners are going green! Tomorrow I’ll be talking about the wonders of genetically-modified food at Happy Habanero, the Geek Dinner being held at Mel’s Kitchen in Rondebosch, Cape Town. There’s still space – sign up and details on the wiki. Related posts: Garullous Grape at Greens Frugal Fennel at… Continue reading Genetically-modified foods at the Geek Dinner
Month: May 2008
Manifestation of our humanity
It’s been wonderful to see the reaction of many to the recent attacks. In my local community, the nearby Observatory Methodist church quickly swelled from supporting 80 people, to supporting 300 people. Many of the first batch were Somalian, who later moved to a mosque in Salt River. The next batch of people were mostly… Continue reading Manifestation of our humanity
Blame alone is not enough to address the violence.
I am immensely sad at the violence taking place in our country right now. Many of the responses too have left me saddened. When what’s needed is help, all round, so much poison has come up. Much of the response has simply been blame, spoken or written in anger, without any compassion for those involved.… Continue reading Blame alone is not enough to address the violence.
Migration to WordPress
I’ve moved my blog software from b2evolution to WordPress. Now if for some malign reason this post got Slashdotted/Dug (and please let me install the caching plugins before being so cruel, oh yes, and the Google ads!), let’s circumvent the inevitable comment storm. Hoorah, good for you, WordPress is much better because blah blah! What?… Continue reading Migration to WordPress
The South African Wikimedia communities
My South African Wikimedia communities submission has been accepted by the Wikimania 2008 Program Committee, so I’ll be presenting it at the conference in Alexandria later this year. So how are those communities doing since my last update? Not particularly well… Progress is slow, and there’s a proposal to close the Xhosa Wikipedia as well… Continue reading The South African Wikimedia communities