On Saturday evening I attended a brilliant (but under-reported in the media and local blogosphere) culmination of viral marketing: The international showing of the documentary Zeitgeist at the Labia Theatre, Cape Town. I have never seen so many people entrancing and exiting this art nouveau theatre. It seems that these underground left-wing movements are great […]

Ok the title is a bit misleading, but if someone could figure out how to sleep with your eyes open he or she would rake in billions.
The product or method would be sold to millions of office workers around the world, as well as students. Papers would say it would cause a loss of trillions […]

We could call it jaywalking, but crossing an intersection diagonally makes a lot of sense. For the pedestrians of course. The motorists get cross, and the mother in the 4×4 with the baby crosses herself as she nearly hits you.

In maths, two negatives multiplied together make a positive. In English, the double negative (that is two negations in a sentence)  do not make a positive, contrary to popular belief and English shmexperts.
For instance, the sentence It is not uncommon to find organic food in supermarkets has a different meaning to the sentence It is […]

‘What is a man?’ asks Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more’.
Compare to Tennysson’s Ulysses who ‘mete[s] and dole[s] unqeual laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and no not [him]’. Obviously not a coincidence and discussed […]

Blog frequency is a thought going through many heads consciously and unconsciously. How often should one blog, and how much should one blog. Intrinsically it seems that frequent blogging on a daily basis is good and blogging sporadically is bad.
Too much blogging is not good either. If I blogged every minute my life would suddenly […]

I awoke one morning several days ago, switched on my computer, and watched my Windows XP splash screen freeze. I then proceeded to do what all computer technicians do when encountering computer problems, and that consists of guesswork, restarting, and looking in forums for people who have experienced similar issues. I was ‘luckily’ (Windows users […]

I have just come across some humourous (although very serious) sites on dining etiquette . One is a list of standards and conventions that allow one to make a ‘favorable impression’ when dining. The other is a list of table manners that vary slightly to significantly from country to country. For instance many customs […]

After trying desperately to get through to a human at one of this country’s many monopolies (this one has this annoying interactive voice response system), finally getting through to one and explaining my predicament, I was told a secret. And the secret I was told is far more useful than that pseudo-scientific new age rant […]

I read a lot and, like most people, would like to read more in less time (here I’m not talking about reading for pleasure). Over the years I’ve done extensive research and practice into different reading methods and ways to improve reading speed and retention. Here’s an overview of what I have discovered (obviously from […]