Beyond Today

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Great Speech: Last speech from Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator

When you need to refill your belief in the human race. Here it is: Link to video: http://bit.ly/wAUZD2 Transcript: http://bit.ly/xiVK3B

On the Rivonia Trial – Odd things at the DMV

A number of weeks ago while at the DMV, we were asked an intriguing question by a fellow New Jersey resident. This is after the citizen found out we were from South Africa. He asked: “Is it true that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist?”. This was a very unexpected question and I answered the best [...]

Educating South Africa, The plot thickens.

Education in SA is a growing concern and even worse crisis. There has been a lot of writing on it and sometimes I feel people dont hear what is being said but just react. There are a lot of debates raging in SA but really action should be taken. Communities need to rise to save [...]

Music in the Clouds

Finally got my Google Music Beta invite. So this will be another music inspired post. You can check out the last one (April 2010). The is a growing,  media managed, push for more of our personal collections of anything to be in the cloud. What is the cloud? Let the Wall Street Journal answer that [...]

The Joys of Peapod

This will be a different post. In this case its a review of Peapod, the delivery service for Stop and Shop in New Jersey. For those in South Africa, home delivery of groceries is still limited but Pick and Pay offers the service through its PnP Online service. I have never used it, never had [...]