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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Some Afrikaners Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2010/07/12/book-review-some-afrikaners-revisited</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques van Niekerk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Goldblatt&#8217;s &#8220;Some Afrikaners Photographed&#8221; was first published, it was met with anger, with outrage and ultimately with a sales boycott. According to the back cover, &#8220;most of the small printrun had to be sold off for a song&#8221;. The version I am reading is called &#8220;Some Afrikaners Revisited&#8220;, and was published in 2007. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The industrialization of software production</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/10/12/the-industrialization-of-software-production</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques van Niekerk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I completed a research paper on the knowledge management aspects of software industrialisation last year. This is not an original post, but a link to the paper &#8211; which IMO is not effectively SEO&#8217;d. Let&#8217;s see if this makes a difference. Here&#8217;s the link to reference the paper &#8211; http://hdl.handle.net/10019/2673. And the abstract from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying my way out of a democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/10/02/buying-my-way-out-of-a-democracy</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2009/10/02/buying-my-way-out-of-a-democracy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contract]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques van Niekerk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South-African]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I strongly believe that democracy is not the optimum way of choosing a government. No &#8211; 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. Consider the following &#8211; I pay a very large amount of tax every month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives and ageism</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/02/12/perspectives-and-ageism</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2009/02/12/perspectives-and-ageism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blue blue sky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bones]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gustible.com/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since, I have imagined that I would live forever. One day the technology would arrive to let me go far far beyond three score and whatever. One day I would not be mortal, one day I will hold the universe in the palm of my virtual hand. I am now 41 years old. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a Luddite</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/02/05/looking-for-a-luddite</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2009/02/05/looking-for-a-luddite#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for Charda van Schalkwyk! Where have you disappeared to ?]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptions of education in South Africa..</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/21/perceptions-of-education-in-south-africa</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/21/perceptions-of-education-in-south-africa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on the responses to a recent blog post, I have some observations on the way South Africans seem to view a tertiary education.]]></description>
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		<title>Is this as good as it gets ?</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/09/is-this-as-good-as-it-gets</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/09/is-this-as-good-as-it-gets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gustible.com/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The promise of the &#8220;new media&#8221; seems unfulfilled. Here we are, in the future, and the realisation of high-tech&#8217;s potential hardly lives up to my expectations &#8211; where are the flying wings, where are the holidays on the Moon ? Our flagship innovations are tools for the marketeers. The web has become a channel for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next steps</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/04/next-steps</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/10/04/next-steps#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[software architect]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gustible.com/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In consideration of changes in career focus - what does it mean to me ? Has it already happened ? What are the possibilities ? Hard skills vs soft skills. Where next ? ]]></description>
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		<title>Value</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/09/24/value</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/09/24/value#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bullshit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gustible.com/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another perspective on the September 2008 financial crisis: we have been utterly swindled. Not for the first time.]]></description>
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		<title>Commoditization</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/24/pornography_of_the_real</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/24/pornography_of_the_real#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gustible.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the commoditisation/commoditization of experience in the world of the zipless fuck.]]></description>
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