For those of you who didn’t believe me the other night at Toastmasters >> you thought I was just being silly: but NO! In the interests of ensuring that we get a clearer understanding of the economic and social determinants that drive our future, we sometimes need to pay attention to peculiar and surprising forces...

oh hooray another GeekDinner! Thanks Mike for organising :-) and Graham for sponsoring the delirium juice – which I will be staying clear of this time! Think this one’s going to be a rowdy one .. seen some names on the wiki that I know to be purveyors of playful mischief, amongst some seriously smart...

I’ve no good excuse for not posting other than maybe that I need firmer discipline (ouch!). Harnessing passion, vision, determination fuelled by an unwavering sense of purpose with superior logistics = crystallised genius. It’s the latter bit of the equation I’ve been missing.. and it’s starting to hurt. [Acceleration demands integrity so all the particles...

Want to flip the AVERAGE BIRTHDAY PARTY concept on its head?

There is something so exhlirating::so electric about watching massive late afternoon thunderheads banking against the blue highveld summer sky .. the anticipation of the powerful heavy storm to come. Growing up in Jo’burg has infused my body with this natural sequence as indelible cellular memories. I miss it sometimes. It’s what gives balance & strength...

Aaaaaargh! Mr Cherryflava referred to us as NERDS. Is a geek an evolved nerd or are they simply interchangeable in most people’s minds? Somehow I?m feeling a tad slighted. I know I?ve some traces of the geek – but heaven forfend – a nerd?! I rushed to Wikipedia to allay my blistered ego and found...

Our Geek Dinner [THANK YOU so much to geek marketing maven Dave for organising this!! :-D] happening next week (30 August ’06). It promises to be a riot of dazzling minds, blazing new ideas and business opportunities brought back from the very edge of fresh tech, design and marketing.. all swimming in Stormhoek wine (sponsored...

Fed on fairytales, with all life’s occassionally brutal and unfair edges polished off, can lead to rampant rages against whoever happens to be in charge of the Universal Luck Lotto. “BUT IT’S JUST NOT FAIR!!” We howl in impotent fury >> How come the rich get richer, good people suffer, innocent children starve while warlords...

..know those times when you feel the earth move? When titanic shifts are rumbling under your feet, you can’t see their effect yet, but you KNOW that when they break ground it’ll be momentous?! Last week was one of those big ole techtonic* shake-ups for me. Think it may’ve started with the meet.up with the...

“As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges” – Rilke Wintery Sunday morning all foggy outside, a mug of rich velvety hot chocolate, broadband …aaaah heavenly :) The teeny little girl on my lap in head-to-toe pinkness has...

Thanks for coming :: I am a hunter of GENIUS in all it’s beautiful and extraordinary iterations.. and have been dazzled by the crazy creative tweaks are springing up globally. If there were any doubts that we’re engaging in a dimensional evolutionary reworking I hope the ideas that follow will shift that perspective. South Africa...