Sound like a dream? Nope, it’s a book by Timothy Ferriss. And a pretty inspiring one at that. “Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich” it promises. I know what you’re thinking — just another cheesy motivational book. But this one’s a little different. One of my favourite, cheesy, motivational business books, […]
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Globalisation and the challenge of needs
The exponential changes in production, distribution of goods across continents, dominance of the world economy over the last thirty years, collapse of beacon institutions of the capitalist world (Bear Stearns, etc) make the analysis of globalisation somewhat of a moving target. This post will clearly not attempt to present a detailed analysis of globalisation — […]
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Warmest 90th birthday wishes to ntate Nelson Mandela!!!
The nation in unison rejoices in celebration of man; we sing praises overwhelmed by joy and pride; we celebrate the birth of one of our brightest hopes – shining brighter now and forever more. For the masses he has worked, sacrificed, struggled, fought and emerged victorious. It is in this ordinary man that this fortunate […]
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Of false prophets and swindlers in the Lord’s name
Religion is always a very sensitive subject, particularly to the conservative and Christian fundamentalists, but however sensitive, certain things need to be subjected to scrutiny and let out in the open for the brainwashed to see the light. Christianity, given the proliferation of televangelists and charismatic evangelists, has transformed to become some means of social […]
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Fair is foul…!
“Fair is foul and foul is fair!” So wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth four centuries ago, but frankly those words could very easily apply to the ongoing accusations and counter-accusations, whinging and bickering that has characterised the Tri-Nations to date. Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a view about this or that incident or other – […]
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Zimbabwe: Where do you go to my lovely?
While the political ping pong ball that is Zimbabwe’s future is knocked backwards and forwards across the negotiation table I thought that a sing-a-long might cheer us all up; something that would be appropriate while you’re watching the population being brutalised and murdered on television. Most of you will know the tune to Where do […]
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Who would you like to see as premiers of the Eastern and Western Cape?
This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Who would you like to see as premiers of the Eastern and Western Cape?
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Too many hands = bad website designs
I am sure that every designer works with hope that the eventual audience of his/her work will gasp with awe-filled appreciation. However, the fact of the matter is that no designer is ever able to ‘wow’ all those standing in the way of a sign-off. The long walk to a sign- off is further hampered […]
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Google learns to crawl Flash?
According to Google, they have been developing “a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.” They explain further: “We’ve developed an algorithm that explores […]
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A dingo ate my baby
If I’m to be totally honest about this, I would like to see the Springboks thrash the Wallabies in Perth on Saturday and then make an immediate application for the game’s permanent suspension. It would leave us holding the World Cup and victories over the All Blacks in New Zealand, Wallabies in Australia, England in […]
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Let’s talk about sex — South African style
Dear Silwane Files reader, This post is an experiment designed to elicit information to be used in a non-scientific study. The following categories of people are strongly encouraged to sit this one out: 1. People who were last sexually active when ‘Saturday Night Fever’ was the coolest movie ever made. 2. Catholics who believe that […]
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No country for Afrikaans then?
Afriforum, the civil rights arm of Solidarity, has laid a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice against a senior superintendent of the SAPS forensics laboratory in Pretoria. This genius has allegedly refused to receive evidence in over 50 cases because the covering letter was in Afrikaans. Regardless of whether he likes it […]