Posted in Environment, Technology on Mar 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
In this day in age of throw away society and the rapid pace of development, humans as a species are generating enormous amounts of waste which is not bio-degradable nor of any practical use after a certain time.
Things like fax machines, telephones, computers, mobile phones… that are outdated as soon as you’ve bought them and […]
Posted in Politics, Social Commentary on Mar 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I suppose I am violating the common held laws of conversation topics by bringing politics onto my blog, but I feel that as a South African, I must voice my disgust and contempt for our President, Thabo Mbeki.
What did he do when South Africa was (and is) faced with the huge pandemic of HIV/AIDS?
He stalled […]
Posted in Interesting Reading on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
As is obvious by now, I like Paul Graham’s essays
So much so that I added the RSS feed indicated on his site to my news reader of choice.
I didn’t like the fact that it didn’t include a brief description of the article though, so decided to create one that did.
Took some educated guesses […]
Posted in Social Commentary on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Paul Graham is my new favourite writer!
Besides his great article on startups (discussed in my previous post), he has a number of other “essays” on his site which I opened while reading the article on startups.
The first article I read of those opened was entitled “Why Nerds are so Unpopular”.
It is an extremely insightful discussion […]
Posted in Business, Technology on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
In the current stage of development I find myself, I am very interested in ideas and how to turn them into successful ventures.
I also find it extremely interesting reading about other people who have done the same thing (eg. The Google Guys).
A like minded associate of mine and I have been discussing such ideas over […]
