Monthly Archives: April 2010

Goal.com Traveller’s Guide To South Africa: Crime And Safety

It’s actually very difficult to get an objective view on crime and safety in South Africa. As with many subjects, it depends on the perceptions of the individual as to what sort of report you’re going to get. And those reports will range from the hysteria of the ex-pat in Perth to the firmly-staying-put South [...]

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Money for research

As a scientist, I know just how difficult it is to secure funding for research projects. That’s why it annoys the hell out of me to see that someone (albeit not a scientist) has gone and got a lump of money to find out if television wildlife documentaries infringe on animals’ privacy. And apparently, yes [...]

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Apparatjik – Snow Crystals

One for the High-Powered Lawyer Girl: I have been listening to more and more of the Apparatjik album, We Are Here and it’s really growing on me. Described as a “side project” for certain members of Coldplay, Mew and a-ha (hence my interest), it will appeal to anyone who enjoys any of those bands, plus [...]

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Early morning sunset

Taken last night at 18:22 CAT: Posted here 12 hours later (with no enhancement whatsoever) for your enjoyment.

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Pwned.

As a biologist, I know that if you want to know what something does in a biological system, you remove it and see what happens. Usually, this results in a mouse dying. Seacom decided to see what happened to South Africa today when routine maintenance work on an internet cable ran over by… ooh… ages and then observed [...]

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