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You are your words

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:04:18 +0100

The Fifth Edition of the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language was recently launched. It is promoted as the "greatest resource for discovering new thoughts and perspectives, forming your own ideas and opinions, and expressing them your way". For Americans, at least.

This landmark Fifth Edition features 10 000 new words and senses, the latest research on the origin and meaning of words, and over 4 000 new full-colour images. Three different formats let you accessRead More...

Battle of the boxes – a new kid joins the fight

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:14:48 +0100

Battle of the boxes – a new kid joins the fight

This business of beauty is a fickle one. I’ve not subscribed to either of the sample box services for January, and I don’t really regret it.

My champion from 2011, GlamBox, has absolutely nothing in this month’s box that appeals to me. Sure there are full-sized items, but they’re not products or brands I use or want to use.

Check Desmond Tutu in the nearest mental institution

Just finished reading a letter to The Star by former Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his views on Johan Kotze, the man who ordRead More...

American legislation threatening internet freedom

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:14:31 +0100

The American national Internet strike# protesting two bills under consideration in the U.S. Congress, H.R.3261 (the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, or SOPA) and S.968 (“Protect IP Act”, or PIPA).

In response many american websites are being blacked out to protest the proposed US legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act.

Personal blogs to Wikipedia, all types of american sites all over the web — are asking you to help stop Read More...

Elegy to a longtime nightly companion

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:36:59 +0100

Every day I excitedly counted the hours until the stroke of midnight, knowing that I would be hearing his soothing voice again. Even if the reception was marred by irritating static, the crackle could not disguise the loveliness of his voice, infused as it was with warmth, kindness and, often, mischievously tinkling with humour.

That voice made me happy to be, if not a full-blown insomniac yet, a definite night owl. He was always so punctual that you could set your watch by him with upRead More...

Back to Windows

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:13:23 +0100

I thought I was rid of Windows forever. Unfortunately not. A recent flooding of my flat resulted in my laptop being damaged and having to be sent in. The insurance company phoned me and told me that my computer was beyond repair and that I needed a new one.

I have been given a Lenovo, loaded with Windows 7 pro and while under guarantee I will have to leave the current OS in place. The old one was solid and had many memories attached to it. It's weird how you can get attached to an old Read More...

Get paid to do surveys. Part 2.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:09:15 +0100

Last week I wrote about online surveys. Companies that have to do market research are willing to pay you for your time and opinion. Unfortunately, there are many sites out there that Read More...

Forget the Oscars, get your name in celestial stars.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:55:19 +0100

Andy Warhol started it with his statement "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." We can see some of the truth of it in the reality shows 'Idols', 'America's got talent' (huh??), etc.

However there is another way to get your name in lights, in the stars. Astronomers have released another 150,000 time lapsed photographs from the Kepler telescope onto the Planethunters website, with the request for volunteers to review these and identify potential planets. The rewaRead More...

Win with Kingston!

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:30:00 +0100

Greetings myDL

As per your newsletter, to kick start 2012 the myDL way and to get everyone back into the blogging swing of things, we're starting off with a small competition!

We have 10x 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 109 flash drives to giveaway - kindly sponsored by Kingston Technology South Africa.

Malema versus Domestic Workers

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:15:52 +0100

First, commiserations for 2011. Here’s to 21 December 2012. May we all live to see its passage and debunking; unless of course, it all comes true and this commentary would have been worthless!?

Recently I was taken in by a news report that received extremely little airplay on the mauling of a two year old Cape Town girl by a Rottweiler. A leash-less dog, that was left to its own devices by its owner, who in the end was only fined for tRead More...

Father-In-Law and Android

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:48:47 +0100

My father-in-law knows about technology, but what he knows
about technology is a little old, and the times, they are a changing, and very
fast I must say as well.

About Three years back we would discuss about which Smartphone
operating system is best, and at that time I already saw potential in Android,
and he on the other hand was a diehard Nokia fan, and I must agree, at that
time Symbian was still one of the best.

UsuaRead More...

My Very First Blog.

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:14:20 +0100

Well this will be my first blog, and I am just typing this
for the fun of it and how technology changed my life and what it helped me with
the past few years.

I was introduced to this site by my man, since I met him I
am more tech savvy... he always told me I am technologically dyslexic and I’d
get mad at him.

Now I realize that it important to know about these things called
cell phones. The things we use for communiRead More...

Kingston Entry: All Bases Covered

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:42:08 +0100

Granted, my Ideos S7 Slim will never be able to take my
wife’s place, but it surely is great competition, I love my tablet, I go with
it everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE.

I do all my emails, research, blogs, social networking, andRead More...

Meeting the ugly side of Twitter

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:56:54 +0100

Some people should keep themselves and their egos off Twitter, because people like me, who has no awards and in no way or form considered a celebrity of any kind, may respond to something you say and kind of expect an interesting, if not intelligent, conversation to flow from it.

On Friday afternoon I saw a tweet by an accomplished man, who IRead More...

Creating an On-line community

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:19:48 +0100

Online communities are the stock of trade in the human media age:

There are people that will pay you to do surveys. Nothing funny about it, they are doing market research and they need people to interview and they will pay you for your time and opinion.