I came across this cartoon done by The joy of Tech at Geekculture.com one of my fav online comics, (besides for the blatant favoritism towards Mac users - don’t get me wrong I like Mac’s. I’m just not a fanatic). I was a huge Netscape user but since its demise have moved to Firefox, and sometimes Flock.
Check it out, its a classic.
This is a picture of my friend and I posing with Vernon Koekemoer.
For those of you who are not familiar with the Koek, I will give you a background of who he is and why he has become famous. His real name is Cassie Booyse and he was spotted at the recent H20 rave in Boksburg dressed as he is in this photo which got him huge attention. Articles have been published in the Citizen,Beeld and Sunday Times newspapers to name a few. Vernon has become a overnight internet superstar with emails of his pictures going around to thousands of people. He is regarded as South Africa’s very own Chuck Norris, just with more muscle and better hair. So when I heard he was making an appearance at Cool Runnings, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to get a photo with the man. He has been making appearances at various clubs and venues drawing big crowds and interest as he is one fascinating guy and is always up for a photo with his fans.
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I have been involved in project management of web design and web development projects for as long as I can remember, and since we moved to Agile and SCRUM methodologies at Sightings about a year or so ago our projects are chaos tolerant. Now we in the industry understand that we have to have a certain amount of resilience to chaos, as a development never runs 100% according to plan and the majority of time there are unknowns, bugs and challenges to overcome in the daily development schedule.
The other night I was involved in quite a heated political debate fueled by good wine. To cut a long story short the conversations about the crisis in Zimbabwe, the US, China/Tibet and SA brought us to debating the un-answerable question… Socialism or Capitalism?
My personal view point has always been capitalist in nature. My opinion is if you really want to save the planet, whales and trees…make money. Better yet, find a way for those profiting from this destructive behavior to make more money than they would by continuing do what they are doing. Guess what… the majority will stop. Fact. Singing hugging trees and “spreading the love dude” does not work, it may have in the 60’s - or so I’ve heard- but hey they are the same generation who gave us tie-dye so they deserve some respect, I guess.
Now this may be a very small portion of the way capitalist or socialists operate, but remember I’m not a politician, I’m just a guy with an opinion…and so are you. Maybe there are Capitalist hippies cruising around in beamers, saving the planet but I doubt there are too many. Basically allow the population to make its money, and keep the government ownership to a minimum. Now others may disagree, thats fine…its really not what this post is about anyway…
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Last night the SA Blog Awards was held in Cape Town, I really wish I could have attended to see the action first hand but had to settle on following the twitter feeds which probably wasn’t as exciting. This year it was swooped up by Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader. I must admit to not having read it that often except for Fiesty Females contributions and thats only because I met her recently at a 27 Dinner in Jhb, but since they won I decided to give it a good read.
I can see why it won, but should it have? With out taking anything away from the winner, its a great blog but it seems like quite a overpowering force with contributions from more than a handful of seriously powerful bloggers. It seems to be more like its own blog community than a singular blog. Just a thought…
I was happy to see Amatomu win, although I was personally hoping that Afrigator would snatch it, seems Mail and Guardian are kicking ass and taking names, since Thought Leader also won the best Blog about Politics.
The rest of the results are available at http://www.sablogawards.com/2008/
Heres to Sightings winning next year’s best new blog!
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