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After landing at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, I had the dubious pleasure of having my bags searched for the presence of beverages containing significant amounts of ethanol. The customs officials were courteous and friendly – and thus began my introduction to Iran, the strange child of ancient Persia.

Lindy and I spent a week in New York at the end of July. At the end of July New York is burdened by a spell of torrid weather. Sweaty heat, blasts of cold air from retail emporiums the only relief on the pavements.

I was privileged to be the “featured” speaker at the inaugural dinner of Cape Town’s Girl Geek Dinner Event on the 8 March, 2011. This post includes an outline of the talk, as well as invaluable “archival” publications from the prehistory of computing in South Africa.

The Ubuntu distro package contains an excellent photo viewer application – since the Maverick release this application is Shotwell, replacing the earlier F-Spot. Shotwell is a great application – but I came across a rare and extremely annoying problem – under certain circumstances, involving removable media, the application would lose the “events” to which your [...]

When I have a free day – weekend, vacation – I often wake up, and wonder “what is the light like today ?”.

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”.

The year is not yet six months old , and I’ve been to nine countries. Here’s a summary.

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.

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.

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, [...]