Posted by Tony on Oct 29, 2009 in
General Thoughts
This morning I listened to Aden Thomas interviewing Ian Neilson, the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, on Cape Talk. The interview was about what Eyewitness News is calling the IRT costing “bungle”. The use of the word bungle confuses me. Mixing up your medications and taking the pink pills instead of the yellow ones is a bungle. Wearing one white sock and one black one is a bungle. Spending R4.1 billion instead of R1.3 billion? That’s not a bungle. That’s a screwup of gargantuan proportions. It’s very, very big.
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Posted by Tony on Jan 5, 2009 in
General Thoughts
OK so here we are in 2009. And I am painfully aware that I haven’t written a lengthy blog for some time now. That’s not about to change.
I’m still on holiday – on the tail end of a relaxing two weeks in Kimberley (is there any other way to be in Kimberley?) and while I have spent hours staring at my screen, I haven’t spent any time actually writing any actual words. Which isn’t great for a blogger and explains the dip in my Google stats over the last few weeks.
What I do have instead is a list of things I’d like to blog about. Here it is (in no particular order):
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Posted by Tony on Jun 1, 2008 in
Thought Leader blogs
I don’t know if you saw this recently — but it’s an actual screen capture of President Mbeki’s diary, as published on government’s own website. I wish I was making it up, but I’m not:
(Source: http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/diary.asp?show=President%20Mbeki)
No, you nerd, the important thing here is not that he only scored a Google pagerank of 4/10 for importance (relative to Jacob Zuma whose Wikipedia page scores 6/10, making him 20% more important). It’s the fact that his official diary is telling us what we’ve all known for years. He’s not doing anything.
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Posted by Tony on Jan 16, 2008 in
Thought Leader blogs
What if we could represent South African politics visually? What if we could take a snapshot of M&G investigative reporter Stefaans Brümmer’s brain? Would it look like a plate of multicoloured spaghetti? A box of rubber bands? Or would it look like this
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Posted by Tony on Sep 30, 2007 in
Thought Leader blogs
I bet you are wondering if our country’s First Citizen has ventured into the world of Web 2.0 during his late-night browsings. Well, I can confirm that he has. After tracking him down on Facebook, I asked him if he would be my friend. Wouldn’t you just know it, but he agreed. So I grabbed a shot of his page, and left … a bit of a hit-and-run exercise, but I thought you might want a peek at it. (click on image for full version)
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Posted by Tony on Aug 31, 2007 in
Thought Leader blogs
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 at the Union Buildings. Here it is (click on the image to see it full size):
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Posted by Tony on Aug 27, 2007 in
Thought Leader blogs
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].
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