Category Archives: this is south africa

Waze and means…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 22, 2012

I’ve been fiddling with the Waze app on my Android phone this week. It’s not the first time I have played with it, but I found that it was of very limited use last time out (probably about a year ago), simply because I was the only (slight exaggeration) person in South Africa bothering to [...]

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Late Night Lab Work

By 6000 | 6000 | March 21, 2012

It’s a public holiday in South Africa, but TB has no respect for days off, so I didn’t have a day off. In fact, it seems that having any time at all is a bit of a luxury at the moment. Anyone else ever have this feeling?

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Simplicity

By 6000 | 6000 | March 20, 2012

As someone once kindly said: Simplicity is more often than not, a thousand times MORE. And that’s probably why I love this picture taken at Strandveld Winery so very much. I spotted it in the Cape Agulhas 2012 Tourist Guide and it popped up on my timeline again today. It’s almost as though it’s hinting [...]

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City to frack CPD?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 14, 2012

Wow. This is huge. The contents of a previously confidential and completely fictitious City of Cape Town report which were revealed during routine business in the Western Cape High Court this morning look set to cause outrage across the city. The report, commissioned late last year, outlines details of plans to move the Cenotaph from its [...]

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March desktop

By 6000 | 6000 | March 12, 2012

Belatedly, I know. But I couldn’t find anything worth desktopping and I don’t want to give you rubbish, so I had to wait until I took this photo this weekend. Twilight on Suiderstrand beach on Saturday evening, with the waves gently rolling in onto the pebbles as the sun sank slowly, but surely, into the [...]

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