Thursday 2 September 2010
By Andy on Thursday 2 September 2010, 22:33 - Computers
There have been a number of countries, like UAE and India that have demanded access to encrypted communications
of Research-In-Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry smartphones. These efforts are
misguided, and unfairly target RIM's business.
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Sunday 22 August 2010
By Andy on Sunday 22 August 2010, 17:59 - Politics
Last month
wikileaks published a large tranche of Afghan war documents, that the
Pentagon doesn't like. Actually, they want it all back, if
such a thing is possible in the download age.
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Saturday 7 August 2010
By Andy on Saturday 7 August 2010, 17:41 - Computers
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Monday 26 July 2010
By Andy on Monday 26 July 2010, 16:49 - Computers
Last month I started a contracting job with the Marine Remote Sensing Unit - a
collaboration between the Centre
for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and University of Cape Town.
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Tuesday 27 April 2010
By Andy on Tuesday 27 April 2010, 14:09 - Computers
Wikimedia projects, including the flagship English Wikipedia, have been
restricted in access to people with internet access. kiwix is opening that up, via its offline reader.
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Saturday 3 April 2010
By Andy on Saturday 3 April 2010, 07:19 - Computers
I inherited a wireless setup of three Mikrotik routers in the roof of a set
of office suites in Cape Town, South Africa. They were connected to an ADSL
router, but the owners problem was there was no accountability on usage.
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Friday 5 March 2010
By Andy on Friday 5 March 2010, 09:19 - Politics
I was invited to participate in BBC
World Service 'Africa have your say' call-in programme to discuss Zuma's
request to Gordon Brown that sanctions be lifted. I was given 30 seconds very
near the end of the programme, and I handled it poorly. This post is to make up
for it :)
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Monday 1 March 2010
By Andy on Monday 1 March 2010, 12:47 - Computers
Kiwix, an offline wikipedia selection, is installed at Kwena Malapo school.
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Wednesday 3 February 2010
By Andy on Wednesday 3 February 2010, 17:00 - Politics
Jacob Zuma has made no meaningful stamp on the
history of South Africa.
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Saturday 2 January 2010
By Andy on Saturday 2 January 2010, 18:16
Cape Town boasts a wide variety of Jazz, with
the calendar centred around the Cape Town Jazz Festival, on the 3rd and 4th April this
year.
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Friday 4 December 2009
By Andy on Friday 4 December 2009, 16:23
The Copenhagen Climate Change conference opens next week. It is
the 15th major meeting since the start at the Earth Summit in
1992 in Rio de Janeiro. Along the way we had the Kyoto Protocol
in 1997 and an attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol at the Earth Summit in
Montreal in 2005.
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Wednesday 25 November 2009
By Andy on Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00 - Zululand
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has a number of ceremonies conducted at his
palace in Nongoma, his only traditionally-built palace.
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By Andy on Wednesday 25 November 2009, 09:23 - Computers
I have been involved for a
number of years with Hilton Theunissen and the Shuttleworth Foundation and
their efforts to bring computers to township schools. A part of that software
suite was an offline copy of wikipedia.
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Monday 23 November 2009
By Andy on Monday 23 November 2009, 14:57
Living in South Africa, this is a much-overused term, derogatory, harking
back to the Apartheid era. In my opinion, it indicates a strange paucity of the
English language in a very necessary area.
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Sunday 1 November 2009
By Andy on Sunday 1 November 2009, 13:46
Toyota Cressidas are nursed into longevity serving as taxis in Gugulethu
township, Cape Town.
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Tuesday 6 October 2009
By Andy on Tuesday 6 October 2009, 10:41 - Computers
Associative memory is capable of performing highly parallel arithmetic
computation on large datasets in constant time.
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Thursday 25 June 2009
By Andy on Thursday 25 June 2009, 17:31
The African Institute for Mathematical
Sciences held the graduation dinner for the class of 2009 at the Muizenberg Pavilion on June 25, 2009. Present were
Vice-Chancellors from three of Cape Town's Universities, and the Kenyan
Ambassador Tom Amolo.
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Thursday 11 June 2009
By Andy on Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:18 - Computers
I visited Gabon
for the last two weeks of May 2009 by invitation of Yoan Anguilet, who has a
business and NGO there promoting ICT and Science literacy in schools. We had
met previously when setting up AUST, a new University on Nigeria. Yoan had invited me to
set up a similar system at two schools in Gabon, as a precursor to a larger
effort later in the year.
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Tuesday 16 December 2008
By Andy on Tuesday 16 December 2008, 13:03
The
African National Congress has led South Africa since 1994 - the start of
majority rule. Disaffection with Jacob Zuma's recall of Thabo Mbeki has set an
unwanted ball in motion - a potential split of the party before the next
election.
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Sunday 7 December 2008
By Andy on Sunday 7 December 2008, 15:08
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Zimbabwe is position in the Zimbabwean government is
currently subject to a tussle of control between Zanu-PF and MDC. However it is
overshadowed by the Provincial administration in the communal areas, which
largely controls food distribution.
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