Archive for June, 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Trade Locations on Google Earth

Those using Google Earth should have picked up the nifty feature allowing one to save co-ordinates of personally noted locations to .kmz files and then share them with other people also using the program. Google itself suppliesin this regard.
Satellite ZA can take the lead from here on, but in the interim here are two [...]

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Re: Bloated Ego

I’d have to agree you on that. What Barry Ronge sees in Batman Begins is what he wants to see and not necessarily what Nolan meant. Not that this is something new amongst movie critics, but what is surprising is what Ronge presents as the crux of his argument is either just a few seconds [...]

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Bloated Ego

I don’t care about Barry Ronge’s political views. Do you? Does anybody? No, I thought not.
So why does he insist on labouring his movie reviews with them? Barry Ronge may be an okay-ish movie reviewer, but whenever he starts writing down his “insights” into war or world hunger (or whatever his pet topic is this [...]

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Sim Earth Made Real

Google has just released another interesting beta product to the Internet at large and which is meant to complement- say hello to
I’m still in the process of assessing it but if you can fulfill the download requirements and are interested you can find it Seefor more details. Also givea whirl if you haven’t already.
Looking at [...]

Wayne | 17:08:28 | Permalink | Comment?
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Memo to Greenpeace

- Frederic Miller, head of Greenpeace France’s nuclear campaign in response to the announcement by the six members of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, (being the EU, US, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea) that France will host the experiment to try create the
So there you have it folks. In an era when [...]

Wayne | 20:59:52 | Permalink | Comment?
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Curious Aspects of the Strike

While there’s substantial debate over the it was clear that there was an effect. Of course one can’t avoid cynically concluding that this has more to do with politics than economics.
Interestingly though, a lot of areas were bereft of beggars and the unemployed who linger in certain industrial and commercial regions in parts of Greater [...]

Wayne | 13:38:14 | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Satellite ZA

Following the efforts of theblog to document all major global landmarks visible viasatellite imagery, Marc has started up a local version called
Obviously the focus is on local landmarks and while Google Maps still has to properly update its records for South Africa (for example half of Cape Town and Jo’burg are still at very low [...]

Wayne | 13:20:02 | Permalink | Comment?
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Monday, June 27, 2005

Economic Aid for Economic Growth

I’ve stated before that I’ve believed that foreign aid is only really useful when it comes to real crises or exceptional situations – hence why a devastated Northern Sumatra following the Indian Ocean Tsunami last year and a shattered Europe post World War II would count.
Butpoints to an article bywhich in turn suggests an option [...]

Wayne | 23:59:11 | Permalink | Comment?
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The Curse of DA Stupidity

Of course, the deeper problem with the DA’s mudslinging is the unsound political judgement it betrays. Yes, we know the DA is a “tough opposition party”. We get it already. I don’t think there’s anyone out there saying “I would vote for the DA, but they just don’t attack the ANC enough.”
The Schabir Shaik trial, [...]

Laurence | 12:54:44 | Permalink | Comments (5)
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The Case Against Mbeki

The more I look at the DA’s flimsy “corruption evidence” against Thabo Mbeki, the less there is to see.
The bulk of their case is based on the “encrypted fax” – the same encrypted fax, no less, that was the centrepiece of the Schabir Shaik trial! So let’s get this straight. The “encrypted fax” has been [...]

Laurence | 10:57:48 | Permalink | Comment?
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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Boycott of South African Goods Called

As strange as it may sound, an activist group in London is calling for a mass boycott of the purchase of all South African goods.
The under its 11-06-05 update, is calling for a mass boycott of all South African goods as an attempt at retaliation for South Africa’s support for Mugabe following Mbeki’s ‘quiet diplomacy’ [...]

Wayne | 22:12:45 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Joining the Lecturing Ranks

I’ve just recently been informed that my application for a temporary lecturing post at a commercially focussed college has succeeded and from mid next month I’ll be lecturing under-graduate accounting to students taking the UNISA year end exams. It’s both exciting and utterly terrifying for its scope, especially as I may be taking several different [...]

Wayne | 00:30:35 | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Friday, June 24, 2005

Batman Begins Anew

Finally! After Joel Schumacher’s absolutely rubbish Batman movies and Tim Burton’s own poor Batman sequel, Time Warner have managed to break their long running duck, spanning over a decade, and produced a super-hero film that is entertaining, has substance and is true enough to the characters’ roots. That’s despite so many fears and complaints of [...]

Wayne | 23:49:29 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Is the ANC…

…moving into full-blown purge mode? The Star seems to think so.

Laurence | 23:05:21 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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