24 February 2010, 11:30 am
Greenman on the BBC...
13 February 2010, 12:44 am
Please forgive my very obvious prejudice. I am an African, and I tend to pour scorn on the dancing ability of Europeans. Sure there are a few exceptions, but most struggle to bust a move without bein...
13 February 2010, 12:13 am
I missed this @spacehijackers adventure, but, it truly is another great work of art....
11 February 2010, 10:48 pm
My main objection to having a baby was the feeling that it was a sign I was getting old. For many years I was sure that becoming a parent would mark the end of my youth, that it would mean I had for...
8 February 2010, 4:20 pm
What kind of birthday present is this? As life struggles to return to some level of normality, I’m left with so many questions.The kind of questions that you can’t easily answer when you are as cl...
18 December 2009, 6:40 pm
Goodbye naughties and welcome twenteens! I’m off to spend 10 days in silence. http://is.gd/5sDdM
It sounds scary at first, doing absolutely nothing for a whole ten days, but once you have been throu...
16 December 2009, 12:20 pm
I actually bought a track on Itunes: “Killing in the name of” is now mine, again....
13 December 2009, 8:49 am
Santa does bail-outs...
11 December 2009, 3:25 pm
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11 December 2009, 11:45 am
Walking. It’s sometimes the best way to think. Maybe I’ll reach the office, maybe I won’t....
10 December 2009, 1:10 pm
The birds escorted me through the park. It felt a bit special - but I think they are just hungry.
I had just stopped for a moment next to the pond. I had my headphones in my pocket and thought it mig...
4 December 2009, 3:00 pm
As Open source software projects grow the cost of communication grows even faster.
At some point in the life of the project the energy required to develop the community process becomes greater than w...
4 December 2009, 12:15 pm
exactly two women at the openhardware conference. This is a problem. #openhw
I have a great belief in the big ideas behind open source. Although the modern version of all this has come from a traditi...
2 December 2009, 11:24 am
Insurance. One of the great scams of the modern world. As a South African, I have been trained to get medical insurance, but for the last seven years I have been pumping money into the coffers of evil...
1 December 2009, 8:34 pm
Learning to use my brain is taking a little longer than expected. I had assumed that it would all just come naturally, but that does not actually seem to be the case. Slowly, and only with a lot of ef...
1 December 2009, 1:36 pm
Reinventing School of Everything: It’s been amazing to watch School of Everything grow, but something has to change. One of our fundamental principles with the whole project has been our belief th...
1 December 2009, 1:17 pm
I think I am becoming more and more sceptical of technology as I get older. Sometimes it’s best just to use pen and paper. For my last presentation, I just scanned in the pages from my notebook.
Not...
1 December 2009, 1:09 pm
The Seven Days of Naughty. A little project to re-establish the ancient festival of Santanalia. (The Romans spelled it a bit wrong and called things “Saturnalia”.)...
1 December 2009, 1:06 pm
I’ve started again. A new blog, a new phone and now I need some new friends. Well, it’s not quite that bad, I just want to sort out my address book. I’ve got over 1000 contacts and I don’t eve...
