South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
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Tagged Civil Liberties, Crime, Education, Hotties
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Allison Stokke, reluctant Internet celebrity
Love the headline, which is for an article about the stunning Ms Allison Stokke (above) who has become an unwilling Internet celebrity thanks to the photo above being posted on a sports blog. Click the picture to go to the Washington Post story about the whole affair.
High laugh rate for me: http://www.techakke.com
http://www.lastminute-auction.com/
I received my first Gouranga Spam today. Wikipedia explains.
One of Opera best features is its programmable searches and bookmark aliases. It allows one to to configure the browser to search from virtually anything right from the address bar.
For example I can type: g [space] “getting things done” and it will invoke google to search for “Getting Things Done”. It can even handle [...]
As a consultant based in Eastern Europe I find myself regulary having to do currency conversions between three currencies: Euro, Pound and Serbian dinar. Because the Serbian dinar is so little known, I needed a site with every currency in the world with up to date rates. Only the highly popular XE.com made the grade, [...]
15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away)
An interesting look at uses for RSS.
Also see “The RSS NewsMaster’s Toolkit
And The Creation Of RSS Information Radars” $99
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Jason Bates is one of the smartest people I know and now he has a blog!
Get over to the Autonomics Weblog for an intellectual feast!
[This is a placeholder notification. Autonomics and Jason deserve a detailed post but I am unable to write it now.]
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Tagged Education, Interesting People, Men's Movement, Personal Effectiveness
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