Book Review: Catching Fire

May 9, 2012

Project 2012: Day 130 We left the end of The Hunger Games with a twist on the twist. A defiance from young Katniss against the machine. Catching Fire now sets us up for the third in the trilogy. Unlike The Hunger Games where you’re thrust into the horror of the story almost instantly, in Catching [...]

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The Best Helmet Products Ever!!!

May 8, 2012

Project 2012: Day 129 When your car windscreen gets dirty, you squirt your windscreen spray. If it rains, you hit the windscreen wipers. When it’s cold and foggy, you turn on the de-mister. Of course your bike, or more practically, your helmet visor, has none of these systems. Dealing with dirt, rain, and fog, is [...]

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What’s Your Blind Spot?

May 7, 2012

Project 2012: Day 128 I love the TV show “How I Met Your Mother.” Actually, I love watching my daughters love the show, their laughter is infectious, but that’s another story. So in a recent (at least in the current series on air) episode, there was a funny sequence where all of the characters had [...]

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The Awesome African Toastie – Best Sandwich Ever!

May 6, 2012

Project 2012: Day 127 It’s true, some of my recipes raise eyebrows. Some elicit gasps of disgust. And others people simply laugh at. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to try out a couple of the more way-out recipes. Today, it’s the turn of my favourite fruit, coupled with my favourite breakfast meat. [...]

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Goedkoop Koop is Duur Koop (or Buying Cheap is Expensive)

May 5, 2012

Project 2012: Day 126 As you may know, I grew up in South Africa, and there’s a well known saying “Goedkoop Koop, is Duur Koop” or “Buying cheaply is expensive.” I’ve seen this again, and again. The best story I’ve ever heard about this was when I was about 14. My dad was working for a [...]

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Cloud in the Enterprise – Economics 7 – Point of Commitment

May 4, 2012

Project 2012: Day 125 This is the final in our look at the economics of adopting cloud computing in the enterprise. To date we’ve covered: Hidden Costs Elasticity Vendor Hosting Getting off the Cloud Intangible Costs In today’s post we’re going to discuss considering when it’s most appropriate to move a particular workload to the [...]

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What is Your True Value?

May 3, 2012

Project 2012: Day 124 I’ve been getting into Dragon’s Den. I know a lot of people reckon that it’s “not real” and the scenario’s are contrived to create conflict, i.e. good TV. But I disagree. The financiers I know, whether Angel, VC Fund Managers, or even execs, are pretty much just like those in the [...]

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Book Review: The Hunger Games

May 2, 2012

Project 2012: Day 123 My daughter, Amanzi, read this a couple of years ago, and kept encouraging me to read it. “It’s good,” she kept saying, “I know you’ll like it.” Now Amanzi is both a voracious reader, with a good head on her shoulders, and has a pretty keen sense of my tastes. But [...]

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Ride Report: Black Dog Ride 2012 National Day Ride NSW

May 1, 2012

Project 2012: Day 122 Buoyed with the promise of potentially breaking a world record (maximum number of black dogs on motorcycles) close on (if not more than) 1,000 motorcyclists converged at various centres around Australia on Sunday; to participate in the 1st ever National Day Ride for the Black Dog Institute. This is an inaugural [...]

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P12-121: If You can’t Take a Joke

April 30, 2012

Project 2012: Day 121 When I did my national service, 2 years in the South African Air Force, we had a saying: “If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t of signed up!” It was a particularly ironic and cruel saying, because none of us had signed up, we were all conscripted. (Actually I had [...]

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