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.
Category: Jacques van Niekerk · Technology · Travel
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”.
Category: Books · Jacques van Niekerk · Society
The year is not yet six months old , and I’ve been to nine countries. Here’s a summary.
Category: Jacques van Niekerk · Travel
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.
Category: Jacques van Niekerk · Technical
