Nevermind the soccer – bring on the technology
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Jake.
The arrival of the Soccer World Cup later this year is either going to be a massive boost to the economy and to national morale or a waste of resources that will only benefit the rich, depending on who you ask. But while you could argue that many of the stadiums that are being built [...]
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Geek God – Jack Dorsey
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Jake.
Twitter creator Jack Dorsey helped transform the way the world communicates online. A true geek god, we owe him credit every time we tweet.
Weighing in at 138 characters, the above sentence summarises the content of this entire article, and, in the process, demonstrates the primary way that Twitter has changed the way we communicate – [...]
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Google’s Nexus One Released, But Not in SA
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jake.
Not too long after the iPhone was met with mixed reviews, Google released their highly anticipated Nexus One Phone last week, and already some at the CES 2010, the world’s most influential international technology trade show, have declared it ‘an iPhone killer’. The phone, which does seem to pick up where the iPhone left off, [...]
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It’s all Geek to me
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Jake.
Recently I mentioned that non-geeks tend to complain that geek-speak is hard to understand as an outsider. Whiny as these non-geeks may be they are absolutely right, and not only do we have our own language but our own code too. For those lesser geeks who have never heard of it, The Geek Code was [...]
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Virtual smoking
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Jake.
Smoking used to be so much more fun. Back in the day smoking a Stuyvesant was an automatic passport to the good life, just one puff and the smoker was instantly transported to someone’s private yacht to drink expensive alcohol while cavorting with semi-naked models . Or, if adventure was your thing, a drag of [...]



