No sooner had a judge carved huge holes in the famous one-click-checkout patent which Amazon.com swindled out of the US Patent and Trademark Office, than the very same idiots at the very same mental institution awards it a patent on another amazing new thing.
2007
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Hlophe to blame for damage to judiciary
Who is to blame for the stress placed on the judiciary and the legal profession by the saga around Cape Judge President John Hlophe? The National Association for Democratic Lawyers (Nadel) seems to suggest that those who had criticised the original decision of the Judicial Services Commission not to pursue the complaint against Judge Hlophe […]
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You were wrong. Admit it!
Newspapers often get it wrong. These days, journalism faces as much of a threat from a lack of credibility as it does from a digital transformation. And, frankly, the way South African news operations handle their errors creates a gap of trust between them and their readers. Take the Sunday Times‘s recent story about Christine […]
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So here’s what happened …
Some of you may have noticed that instead of my almost-daily blogs I’ve been absent for nearly two weeks. While I’d love to say it’s just laziness, or busy-ness, or a hiatus somewhere sunny and tropical, that is, alas, not the case. It turns out I’m diabetic. Type one (the serious kind). I was diagnosed […]
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Dear Aunty Traps
No matter what you achieve in life, you will always feel that you have missed out on something. For me, it’s not having my own agony-aunt column. I would kill for the opportunity to give the geniuses who write in a more balanced response as opposed to the garbage they get from women like “Dear […]
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The Lotto: Tata-ma-chance, tata-ma-stupid?
According to the SA Fact-a-Day website, about half the people who visited a casino to gamble last year did not have a matric qualification. I guess that this is significant, considering that people without matric outnumber those who have it by quite a margin. I generally discard this type of information into my “useless information” […]
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Another day, another journalist (or two) jailed
Two senior journalists have been arrested for leaking information about a criminal investigation into the alleged unlawful publication of a government official’s home address. Zimbabwe? South Africa? United States, actually. Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey of the Phoenix New Times were jailed last week when they revealed that they had been subpoenaed by a grand […]
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Business. Environment. Balance
Long gone are the days of hippies and activists alone protecting the existence of fauna and flora and protesting against the wrongs done to the environment by industry and big business. Our green playing field has changed indeed, with businesses stepping up to the plate and taking charge of their environmental and social responsibility issues. […]
Posted inSport
White is the man to transform SA Rugby! But no one will listen!
Congrats, Bokke! On Saturday you made us all proud. You will go down in history as one of the greatest teams in rugby history, not just because you won, but also because you came through against all the odds. Looking back to the 2003 World Cup, Springbok rugby was a shambles. Working at the event […]
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So you want to write a book?
Now is your chance to write a 50 000-word novel with a “fun, seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing. November is “National Novel Writing Month”, and thousands of people from around the world are taking the opportunity to become real novelists. This is how it works: You write a 175-page (50 000-word) novel, starting on November 1 and […]
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Anti-smoking Nazi bastards!
When some genius told me that passive smoking is far deadlier than normal smoking, I was relieved. As a regular smoker I had a lot to be grateful for: imagine if I only inhaled second-hand smoke … I mean, with my form (Derby County and Pirates), what were my chances of making the right choice? […]
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Development indicators: Has life improved for the poor since 2000?
When speaking about development indicators, I am reminded about how family problems are tackled. The mediators usually start from a position that there are three versions of this story — the two versions of the feuding parties, and the third the truth. In the case of development indicators, the government’s version of the truth is: […]