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In the old days, you lived for 24 years next to Alice, banging on the ceiling, walls, floors and pipes. Now there is facebook…

Modern manufacture, ancient style. These beads and bracelets are made in Venda today. The style still follows the ancient pattern established even before the days of Thulamela. Aerial view of Thulamela, looking north-east. This is the edge of the settlement, with the excavation of Ingwe’s grave taking place in the foreground. The edge of the [...]

Ensuring the permanence of digital data consists of four steps, namely backup, refresh, migrate and document. A strict routine of backup, refresh, migrate and document will ensure that important data will remain viable and can be used effectively when and where it is needed. What follows is a very simplistic view of ensuring permanence of [...]

This article about inflation and interest rates makes for a very good read. My car might be old and beat-up, I have a hand-me-down cellphone, but at least I don’t own money on any of these. But I am still amazed at the fact that people do not seem to stop spending. So we are [...]

Juan is an idiot.

I recently stumbled across this site – outside the (toy) box – by a mother of two. Browsing this superb site led to The Underground History of American Education. Not a very comfortable read if you have kids on their way to school… Chapter 3 (see Name Sounds, Not Things and The Meatgrinder Classroom) led [...]

I have just downloaded w.bloggar and will see how it works to expediate the process of posting material on this website. This is the first attempt. I have used ScribeFire before, and that worked ok with one or two small irritations. The biggest advantage of ScribeFire is that, once I was authenticated by our firewall [...]

If you have a youngster, there is a good chance that you have to suffer through at least weekly episodes of Barney. So it is with us. And when we got invited to lunch with friends in Johannesburg, we decided to make use of the opportunity to take the child to the Barney Show running [...]

Mapungubwe as seen from the air, looking in a north-easterly direction.

Every 5th of June is a day used by the United Nations to stimulate worldwide awareness of environmental issues. Banana peel reflex Long, long ago, when we were all monkeys swinging in the trees and hunted those elusive bananas for lunch, a reflex was fixed in the genes and are still present today: the banana [...]