Archive for: August, 2007

Mbeki's inbox part 2

see in this week’s Mail & Guardian that the paper decided to take my post from Thought Leader and expand on it a bit, with some help of two of their journos (check out page four of the paper). While all that was going on, I was sent another screen grab from the president’s inbox [...]

Inside Mbeki’s inbox

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A confidential source working in the IT department in Parliament sent me this screengrab from President Thabo Mbeki’s inbox. Thought you might like to see it [click picture below to enlarge].

Fun places to live #456723

What I wouldn’t give to live in the town of Brattleboro, Vermont. They sound like such fun people. For years the town (population 12 005, according to their Wikipedia entry) has been nudist-friendly … there is no ordinance prohibiting nudity in the state or in the town. And so people who like letting it all [...]

City of soggy lungs and statues

(First published in The Weekender, August 2007) THE air was crisp, the ground soggy as I tumbled through the open doors of the rickety yellow bus, onto the muddy pavement. I looked around. An empty warehouse behind me, some houses in the distance. No sign of human life. I was 9000km from home and about [...]

Dear Rejected Facebook Friend

(I wrote this as a cathartic excercise to make myself feel a bit better about rejecting so many friend requests. I went through long bouts of anguish and internal wranglings before being able to bring myself to click the “Ignore” button….so this is to make me feel better. If you’re still a friend, don’t feel [...]

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