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What started as a trickle of a problem a few months ago has bubbled over into a series of unfortunate, unstoppable, unbearable and unbelievable events in the life of a successful startup that has perhaps become too big for its boots. Two months ago, I noticed that every fifth or sixth blog I visited that […]

Firefox is a brilliant browser. It’s also fast. I discarded Internet Explorer (IE) about two years ago. It wasn’t an ideological decision, I wasn’t trying to make a point… it’s just that Firefox is a better browser. I still have IE7 on my laptop, but use it only for testing purposes. I find it slow […]

One of my readers whom I shall call JS, in case he is nervous of being stalked, wrote in to tell me about an English common law principle which is finding more and more application in the United States of America. In essence the “Castle Doctrine” designates certain areas such as your home, car or […]

Being at Loftus on Saturday afternoon, one realised that the Springbok Team and Peter de Villiers’ management are being turned into some gaudy Vaudeville act, and it will lead to the demise of the performance of the Springboks. The emphasis on creating hype and a corny ‘big game build up’ is amateurishly reduced to loud […]

Springboks (17)37, Wales (14)21 The purists will scream foul, Wales redemption, but this was champagne rugby of the total variety. The Springbok class of 2008 taking rugby where South African soccer had dared not go before, unleashing the incredible ball skills and raw talents of this country. 1970s and Holland manager Rinus Michels introduced the […]

There is a tendency in South African football to use one’s knowledge — or rather ignorance — as analysis in itself. If you know a name of a player or a coach, then that person is good. If you don’t, he is bad. You might remember the first time Delron Buckley and Hans Vonk were […]

Everyone’s always asking me where the name Trapido comes from. It is in fact Portugese in origin, and we trace our ancestory back to Porto a few centuries ago. Even though none of us actually speak the lingo, it does not prevent my sons and I from supporting Portugal against everyone but Bafana Bafana. Nothing […]

First, let me state here that I had nothing to do with the tag under which this blog is appearing — that of calling football socc… I can’t even write the dirty word in full. Calling the beautiful game by that dreadful Americanism is one sure way of making me unsure about writing here. I […]

So perplexed was I about the allegations flying around on this site that white boys don’t watch PSL, that I called a referendum of Dirty Sanchez to test this theory. I included all core members regardless of race to ensure that the results weren’t controlled by subversive umlungu colonial-types. Here are my results, with names […]

The latest Super 14 proposal to hit administrators suggests the Blues be split into two franchises, as well as changes made to the Chiefs’ partners. The New Zealand Herald reports that there is a push to have six New Zealand sides involved in the series, perhaps as early as next year but more likely 2010, […]

When it comes to passwords, there are two objectives we need to achieve. Passwords need to be secure and easily remembered and accessible. In today’s climate of multiple logins to our social networks, websites, banks, email, etc, we tend to get lazy and stick to a single password which we use everywhere, which poses a […]

It is imperative to problematise the idea of a university relentlessly and insistently at the beginning of the 21st century, and for a number of reasons. The first is that, regardless of a widespread belief in the ‘neutrality’ of universities, they have not been unaffected by political partisanship. Perhaps this is unavoidable, given the fact […]