Fathers, Sons and questions from reading Manhood

 Last weekend, I spent some quality time with my best friend, Bradley Minnaar. His mother passed away recently and has now moved back in from a granny flat into the main house. All his sisters are married with kids, and his one brother is married with kids, while the other became a missionary after his […]

Where is Facebook in the workplace?

 Facebook is a social networking website dedicated to user-generated content and global connectivity. At its heart is the individual user, who creates a profile and then searches for friends already on the network. Complements to that initial concept include groups dedicated to a multitude of interests, including religion, sport or even profession. Applications on Facebook […]

5 basic steps of personal computer security

 After almost 20 years of using computers, I have come to appreciate the importance of computer security. That irritating obligation you may feel to run an anti-virus check on your system once a day just to feel more secure, the wish to eliminate those nagging spam emails permanently from your Inbox, and more recently, those […]

iTxt a bad MXit clone going nowhere slowly

  At the end of 2006 I was contacted about a new mobile message company iTXT, that claimed to launch safer chat rooms on cellphones. This was at the height of MXit’s initial negative publicity. I investigated the company and signed up on my cellphone to evaluate the service. I immediately found some usability problems […]

Peter Diamandis on Stephen Hawking in zero gravity

 It feels like yesterday that I met Professor Stephen Hawking in Cape Town at the AIMS 2008 graduation and the launch of the Next Einstein project. While at this event, I spoke at length with Pik Both, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he related how he had met Stephen Hawking in the 1990s. And […]