This past weekend I decided to buy a new couch for my home. Wearied of endless trips to Fourways, battling through the traffic, wasting petrol, dodging Metro Police roadblocks, I decided to check out online catalogues for the stores before traipsing ...
The famous Australian based web community site Sitepoint, originally founded in a roundabout way in 1997, launched its "new look" front page this week. A pretty mixed response it has received, and as I often tend to do, I'll try to remain as unbiased...
Since this is my first post on Tech Leader, I thought I couldn't go wrong with a top ten list. Don't worry, I'll try not to do it too often.
This list of software consists of tools I use almost every day. Some of them are better than their proprie...
I'm grateful for search engines, but I still find it hard to accept living with Dead Text. Letters and figures on a screen. Not able to be mined, found, unlocked, extrapolated into meaning. What irks me in particular is tables of figures, especially ...
So here we are, 2008. We have Google, Flickr and Facebook. We have YouTube, MySpace and Twitter. We have more IM clients than you can shake a stick at, and enough Web content to sink a flotilla or two. How, I ask you, is anyone expected to cope? If y...
Most corporates have terabytes of unstructured data floating around, which they do not know they have. New legislation is about to make life very interesting in this sphere. The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the Privacy Act as it i...
I've been covering IT, and its newer acronym, ICT, for nearly ten years. In that time I've had the joy of watching the trends go around, and around. I've watched hype become reality, usually in a far longer time period than the vendors would like, an...
Driving around a typical Johannesburg suburb, the most eye catching thing is that every house is surrounded by a wall at least 6 feet high. And these walls are decorated with electric fences or barbed wire. Their electric gates let in only the right ...
Science fiction is not normally my first choice of reading material, unless of course it is about the trips through galaxy as described by a very funny writer called Douglas Adams. But I have been converted to the modern Cory Doctorow-style science f...
I was not going to bother with another article on Facebook, or any other social networking site. But then a video flitted across my Mac and it just forced me to take up the pen again, or pull up the keyboard and touchpad.
There are two things I wa...
