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Breathing Space
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A blog containing articles that revolve around South Africa, Life Death, Politics, Economics and anything else!
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Memories: Youngs beer
I first tried Youngs beers in London in the early seventies. At the time most British pubs were dominated by the ‘big 4′ breweries. Most pubs were owned by these breweries whose beer was watery and full of chemicals. But Britain also had ...
Reverting back to the landline
The explosion of cell-phone technology has been a major area of growth. Cell phones have become ultra smart. They emulate computers. They are able to show videos in high quality and stream television programmes. The latest models include GPS navigati...
Local resident
Many creatures live on our property. Many, such as this little lizard, are not seen very Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d252').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5})...
Behind everything that we do, there are words
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me Words are not mere words. They are a powerful weapon.Words can bring about peace, friendship, invention, understanding and education. That happens when words are used wisely, to ...
Performance management just doesn’t work
A very large parastatal organisation has spent hundreds of millions over the last five years developing so-called Business Intelligence (BI) systems to measure KPIs or key performance indicators. Each division spent years employing an army of consult...
What is cloud computing?
When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the words to “Get off of my Cloud” computers were far from being a part of everyday life. The computers of the day were huge monstrosities that belonged to big companies. In those days, computers ...

