BarCamp is coming to South Africa!

I held off blogging this in full a while ago, but now there’s a date and new logo, so: BarCamp is coming to South Africa!

By Boxes and Arrows’ Anders Ramsay, who describes it best in a nutshell:

Think of BarCamp as the open-source equivalent to a traditional

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Farewell Cape Town

Friday night didn’t go as well as expected, considering I don’t remember saying goodbye to anyone. If I did. Also, I somehow got totally wasted, threw my guts up (this doesn’t happen often), crashed at Tam’s digs and only got home after 9am the following morning. And I lost my phone during the evening, or it was stolen (… view full post

Balance on Earth

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the Archangel found him on the seventh day, having a rest. He inquired of God, “Where have you been?”

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, “Look Michael! Look what I have made.”

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Cape Town on top

On top of Cape Town recently being voted the third most popular city with international tourists (after Sydney and Melbourne), we are, according to Newsweek magazine, among the top eight cities in the world when it comes to producing and attracting intellectuals, artists and thinkers.

The internationally acclaimed magazine has listed the Mother City in its latest cover story as … view full post