Category Archives: learning curve

New Pet Peeve

By 6000 | 6000 | December 8, 2011

This one’s pretty simple: people taking video of school events on iPads (or any other 10″ tablet, for that matter). We all like to have a visual record of our children’s school shows. Hell, I’m there like a bear with my camera and the good old Sony camcorder, frantically recording each and every moment for posterity and [...]

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Keep the change

By 6000 | 6000 | December 8, 2011

Fresh on the heels of the weeing on bougainvillea saga, here’s some more Popular Mechanics Top Tip Letters Page brilliance from Al de Bruyn: Keep the change Finding change for car guards at short notice can be a pain. To solve the problem, I store a few coins in my car’s ashtray, pressing them edge-on into a [...]

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All mouth and no trousers?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 7, 2011

Big words from the Western Cape Transport MEC Robin Carlisle this week on two new plans to improve road safety in the Province. Firstly, he outlined plans to institute huge fines for parents who do not belt their children in when they are in the car. And those driving on the roads of Cape Town [...]

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Hoax emails hurt

By 6000 | 6000 | December 5, 2011

…as I’ve said before. I don’t expect that anyone who reads my blog forwards this sort of junk on anyway – you’re all far too intelligent, right? (right?!?). Thus, I really don’t expect this to make much of an impact in the greater scheme of things, but the trouble is that some people do believe [...]

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Android is *still* blowing everyone away

By 6000 | 6000 | November 17, 2011

Remember when we told you that Android was Blowing Everyone Away back in May of this year? They were on the up, with about 37% of market share, RIM was in freefall (down to 25%) and Apple was doing “ok”, fairly steady at about 25%. Well, now Business Insider have updated that graph for November [...]

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