Other Thoughts

What would you do if there was no technology, no internet, no cell phones? How would you cope? We depend on tech for so much. Has technology already changed our skills?

I’m presenting the XML and Schemas course this week as a favour to a client. I suspect I’m one of a small minority of people with a fondness for XML. (Although I can’t say the same for schemas.) Probably because I learned to use it for documentation, which I enjoy,

We all sometimes choose the easy way. But easy doesn’t produce great results. And sometimes easy is just plain wrong. Maybe it’s time to develop a 7th sense.

I spent last weekend with a friend in Cape Town. My friend’s super power is her sense of fun and humour. What’s in your glass? I am a "glass-is-half-full" kind of person. To my friend, however, the glass is almost full. After speaking to many people recently for whom the

Let’s be honest. When we have a question, the first thing we do is Google it. Or Bing it. For the more tech elite, we might Duck-Duck-Go it. (That doesn’t quite work as a verb, but you know what I mean. And if you don’t, just Google Duck Duck Go.)

Thanks to movies, you’ve probably heard the term "the butterfly effect". The butterfly effect is the idea that small changes can have large consequences. Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorology professor in the 1960s, suggested that the flap of a butterfly’s wings might cause a tornado. It’s a big universe Last

A Mail and Guardian reporter wrote that this January has already been 3 months long. My week has certainly been long enough to count for next week as well. It might be the "back-to-work" syndrome, but I think it’s also "load-shedding syndrome". Is that a thing? It should be a