Wandering South African and dad-to-be currently working for a tech company in Silicon Valley
Leave the great indoors ranks 926 in Africa and 604 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 3437, and 1573 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 1607 and 1007 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
The ultimate blog post to defend the use of vuvuzelas at World Cup matches has already been written, but based on the constant Twitter and Facebook onslaught I am getting about this, I really have to say a couple of things about it too. First, consider the lead-up to this tournament.
This weekend I had the best coffee I’ve ever had. My good friend Wil has a large bag of unroasted, green coffee beans from Kenya, and I watched as he prepared a cup for me. The whole process took about 30 minutes — from roasting the beans
It has now been two weeks since we arrived back in Cape Town after an 8 year stint living abroad, and I am still hesitant to write this post. I keep thinking that I need to give it more time, that my unconditional euphoria about being back has to be
A friend recently posted this Paulo Coelho quote on Facebook: Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move. R.L.Stevenson once said: “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
I am not sure how this happened, but I had never read the preamble to South Africa’s Constitution. Until my friend Annie posted it on her blog earlier this week. I felt even more ashamed after reading it there because she is not even South African – she is an
I just read a blog post about South Africa that I don’t think had quite the effect on me that the author intended. It’s a post written by a South African who returned home after 9 years in the UK, had a horrible experience, lost all hope, and 9 months
The 9th season of American Idol just started. Before each season I vow to boycott it, and I go on a snobbish tirade about how I don’t understand why people watch that show. And then the first episode rolls around, and I know why people watch that show. This week,
I don’t need to write anything about the nature of the devastation and loss of human life in Haiti after the earthquake. We’ve all seen the images. There are so many ways to help there right now, you just need to pick one that works for you and do something. Here
Earlier this week I started the bed-time routine of reading to our 3-month old daughter. It is an important occasion for a father, so I wanted to select a book that reflected that gravitas of the moment. After proper research, I decided to go with a book hailed as “one
This is the time of year when the Internet goes crazy with “Best of 2009″ lists. And I have to admit, I love it. From the most-watched YouTube videos of 2009, to Mashable’s insightful “What Twitter and Facebook’s 2009 Trends Tell Us About Ourselves,” to the Wall Street Journal’s best
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