Hooray! Time for our 2nd official Stormhoek Geekdinner has arrived. If you haven?t been to one yet, and you are a geek, don?t miss out! (If you are one of the mighty lucky ones to be visiting or living in Cape Town this week that is). It?s this Friday 22nd December

oh hooray.. silly season is almost in full bloom, and the grown-ups get to play too. Blogger tag coupled with a postsecret edge attached. I got tagged by Stopforth who was tagged by Dave Gale who started the game..  naughty Mike said it was 5 dirty little secrets (shriek!) but thankfully, tootling over to source...

I have a deep and abiding fascination with time (as I guess most of us temporally-ensnared humans do – what would the plastic surgery industry be without feeding such obsession) ..(or in fact the Getting Things Done cult.ure of time management..wish I could say I was an acolyte, but I’m yet to crack the nod...

Imagine if you will a clean white island of tranquility with superb service and utterly yummy foodies, as a welcome counterpoint to the frenetic work.office.calls.proposals.logistics.aaargh! end-of-year sprint>> Mmm.. heavenly. Such was the lunch I spent at in the fine company of Graham Knox, he, inspired and award-winning! winemaker (Stormhoek), ballsy marketer (most popularly celebrated for...

I love a little social subversion if it helps to tease life back into our being. Reviving the numbness set in by constant busyness, the thrusted assault of advertising or frustrated impotence as we’re bludgeoned with increasing horrifying news we can do nothing about. Progressive complexity and ever more wonderous tools and toys avalanche towards...

..words emblazoned on my spirit, From poetess Mary Oliver, that I shared this morning with some bravehearted entrepreneurs (recent escapees from corporate slavery), angel investors and assorted inspiring beings who refuse to squander their youth & fire to the smothering comfort of safe employment.. (poppy petal thanks to the beautiful lens of Miss HP on...

You know the feeling when something fairly small and relatively insignificant just confirms your suspicions that you made a really good choice?

(a quick visual follow on from yesterday).. for the celeb spotter in us all.. this really did it for me (don’t think you’re immune BTW). We all have our heroes and villians who populate the ancient story, which appears to be deeply embedded into every human OS. If you haven’t read what I believe may...

Take the ringside seat as the billion $$ behemoths battle it out. Such fun! our very own pantheon of the gods. Those who hold sway in this peculiar parallel dimension of online reality, do so by sheer weight of those who believe in them.. (in Google we trust). Once again the big boys are out...

In a few days Cape Town will be welcoming a new coder to our fold (or is that strand/helix whatnot).. JazCook.. dad of Dr Don. Already infusing wit to preface his arrival: I quoth in his stead: “..The geek shall inherit the earth.. or at the very least the mirth“ (digg you already Jaz, welcome...

THANK YOU MIKE!! Huge thanks to that force of nature: Stopforth wentforth and magicked up a brilliant evening for the Jozi geeks to map their network offline. Big smiles and lots of surprised people, whose illusions/delusions of what geekery is, have been soundly smashed. It rocked. Mike & I are now veterans of the SA...