When Goldblatt’s “Some Afrikaners Photographed” was first published, it was met with anger, with outrage and ultimately with a sales boycott. According to the back cover, “most of the small printrun had to be sold off for a song”.
Book Review – Some Afrikaners Revisited
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments
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World Tripping
June 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Dropping Evolution
November 29th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I’ve finally had it with Ubuntu’s default email client. Since I installed Karmic 9.10, I’ve been determined not to have to run Microsoft Outlook in a virtual machine simply to get e-mail. The only Ubuntu mail client with built-in support is Evolution. And it is a singularly shit piece of software.
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Alacarte problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Just a quick note – if you have problems accessing the “Main Menu” item from you “System” menu in Ubuntu Karmic, you may want to try the following.
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Review: Kindle in South Africa
November 4th, 2009 · 21 Comments
I ordered my Kindle the very day that Amazon announced the international release of the device. On the 19th, as promised, I was informed that it had been shipped, and would arrive within a few days. I had in the meantime left on a business trip, but on my return on the 25th of October, [...]
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The industrialization of software production
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
I completed a research paper on the knowledge management aspects of software industrialisation last year.
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Buying my way out of a democracy
October 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments
I strongly believe that democracy is not the optimum way of choosing a government. No – I do not have a viable alternative, but the evidence suggests that there should be a better way of determining who is fit to govern.
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Of Science and Culture
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Distressingly, I have hardly blogged at all during the past few weeks (months?). Time to catch up – and present you with the City of Warsaw’s Palace of Science and Culture.
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A busy time
May 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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Snow Trip – Siberia in Spring
March 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I have just returned from yet another two day trip to an unusual destination. This time it was Siberia – to be more precise, the city of Novosibirsk, or “New Siberia”.
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