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Police try to help truck owner to apprehend pirates!! I have to admit, not by design really, but more by circumstances, that I find myself starting the holidays a little earlier than normal. The reason is that my new home will only be ready in January, and I had to get out of my last home today!!!! So now I live in a small beach town 100 kms away from the city. For the next two weeks I have to travel [...]

  Well, it’s official (apparently), I am about to resume my weekly column duty with IOL, writing a career column on the IOL Jobs website. I’m looking forward to this as it brings a kind of discipline to my writing which frankly I was missing for a while. I hope it’s going to continue on the five years that I have already invested in writing over 200 columns with Independent Newspapers [...]

Well, it’s official folks. It’s crayfish season in SA and the locusts are sitting here mouths watering waiting for the new season’s first catch to be presented by the one who calls herself my sister. Although we all refer to her by her scientific name, “gambero cacciatore”. Being the most feared crayfish hunter south of the Parrot Crossing, it is no surprise that everytime [...]

Okay, so before you think I’m about to reveal whether I’m a butterfly, hornet or slug, let me explain why I’m even getting into this. It started last week after attending a great talk by Barrie Bramley on Social Networking, hosted by Acsis Financial Planning in Cape Town.

How many of you have ever heard someone say, “I can read your mind?” There’s always somebody who thinks they can tell exactly what’s going on in your head. But with me, I think it’s impossible. Sometimes I can’t even make head or tail of what I’m thinking! But now, there appears to be some scientific folks who believe they can capture your thoughts in images.