Cell C has helped tremendously to reduce the cost of mobile broadband in South Africa. This is about to change because they are increasing their pricing from1 November and ending their promotions which offered bandwidth as low as R0.07 and on prepaid options. Before the speed stick contracts were the norm for3G/mobile broadband. There is…
As I thought about what to write on my BLOG this week, I remembered a famous quotation by Winston Churchill, “Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming…
My best friend Bradley Minnaar introduced me to the beautiful poetry of Pablo Neruda. He paid me one of the best compliments I’ve ever received by telling me that my poetry was similar to that of the great Neruda. You can read my poetry on the Allpoetry.com website. But here is one of the classics…
A friend of mine Jess Miller wrote a book called “We’re all in this together”. In the book, he spoke about Stress, Tension, Loneliness and Depression (STLD). I have been through two serious bouts of depression first in at the end of 1999 and into 2000 and then to a lesser extent in 2001. These…
Superman, the archetypal comic book superhero was born in the early 1930’s Depression-era America. The brainchild of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster Superman was initially a villain but soon became the greatest hero known to mankind. The myth of Superman is essentially that he was born on the planet Krypton with a…