The blogosphere often comes under criticism (and usually, rightly so) for knee-jerk journalism. Don’t research the facts — just the get the scoop and get something up. In comes the traffic and some poor sod usually clicks on the Google Ads. Not a great place to be … However, when it comes to product reviews […]
2008
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You don’t have to be smart to make money
No one can deny that much of the Western world is bent on pursuing cold cash. Ask a bunch of high-school graduates what they want to do when they leave school and nine out of 10 will say: “We want to make money.” So, if making money is important to you, then you have to […]
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Beijing Olympics: Red and green converge
It’s almost time for the 2008 Olympics, and the Chinese authorities are making sure their coming out party is as green as possible. And what does environmentalism entail? Draconian restrictions, of course. The Communist Party of China can relate to the green penchant for fascist measures to save the rest of us from ourselves.
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Buchan and Tutu are Madiba’s birthday presents
While the Sunday Times was reporting that the ANC were losing voters left, right and centre, Rapport was recording the incredible events that took place at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. Angus Buchan, a farmer of Scottish descent who preaches hope and decency through prayer and traditional family values, had drawn a crowd of 70 000 to […]
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Network neutrality — what?
You’re on the highway approaching the toll booth, on a tight deadline for an important meeting. To your dismay, you’re shepherded into a long, slow-moving lane. “This is the new differentiated service system,” your companion explains. “Some car manufacturers and some big businesses have struck a lucrative deal with the toll-road company, giving their vehicles […]
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Distinguishing between Mandela and Mbeki is poor
While president Thabo Mbeki was making preparations to continue his mediation efforts in Zimbabwe with support from the African Union and the United Nations, Nelson Mandela, Africa’s greatest citizen, was celebrating his 90th birthday. Madiba, a man who has devoted his entire life to the struggle for the liberation of his people, losing nearly three […]
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Down the Nag’s Head: taking the piss about politics, ethics, morality and shandies* in sport.
On the only occasion I ever voted, I placed a cross beside the name of a man convicted of treason; as everyone knows, of course, treason replaced heresy after the mediaeval period as the highest crime one can possible commit against one’s country. Happy Birthday to the criminal, but this story is not about you; […]
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Indaba with a peg in the ‘axis of evil’?
The Guardian featured an article on Thursday, July 17 that showed the US plan on setting up “a US interest section — a halfway house to setting up a full embassy” in Tehran sometime in August 2008. This article followed short on the heels of a US announcement on Wednesday, July 16 2008 that the […]
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Ian Botham is the man from W.H.I.N.E
There is nothing quite like the whingeing Poms when it comes to cricket. Commander-in-chief? Saint Beefy of Ignatius: DON’T JABBER BEEFY JUST WOCKY (Apology to Lewis Carroll) ‘Twas brillig, and this Limey toad Did cry and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy ’twere for Cook had got an iffy call, And the moan and wrath […]
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Sanzar’s Super 14 quick fix: Too little too late … but Hoskins to the rescue
What is the leadership of Sanzar thinking by announcing a proposed expansion of the Super 14 finals to a Top Six play-offs series next year? This certainly does not address the problematic issues of the tournament. The problem with the Super 14 tournament, whose charisma and television allure, which started 12 years ago in 1996, […]
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WordPress launches new theme repository
Recycled information seems to be the nature of the blogging world. Be that as it may, not everyone feeds off content from the same sources, and sometimes things you would have wanted to know slip through the cracks. Today they announced on the WordPress development blog that they have re-launched the theme directory. Now, since […]
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In search of Mandela’s people
Madiba shines brilliantly at ninety. One sees it in the gush of smiles that follow mention of his name almost anywhere on the African continent. He remains in the words of the late Brenda Fassie “My Black President” – a title he earned before he was elected by the South African people – and one […]