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When the truth hurts ....

So by now i am sure you've all seen the Zpiro comic and you have your own thoughts on it. He then proceeded to update it this morning with this one ... My thoughts .... well good for him! It is not racist. It is not sexist. It is simply portraying the situation in South Africa as many of us who are...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 09-12-2008
Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 Photos

I took some candid photos at Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 down in Durban and I’ve blogged them on my post over here .

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 08-12-2008
Tech-Ed 2008 South Africa

The agenda is updated, here are the 2.5 sessions I will be presenting: Building Data Driven Applications using Windows Presentation Foundation 04 Aug 2008, 12:30 - 13:30 Session Room 7 Level: 300 Most rich applications present data, often lots of it. To avoid writing lots of code to support the presentation...

Posted to Rudi Grobler (Weblog) by rudi on 06-26-2008
Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams reminder

Just a quick reminder that there is still space available for the SA Developer .NET session Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams . Please take a moment and RSVP over here on the forum thread.

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-20-2008
South Africa's electricity crisis

I recently received a chain email from a friend where the original author was complaining bitterly about the massive electricity price hikes being mooted by Eskom (our state-owned electricity company) in order to pay for their build programme. The author felt that since it was Eskom and government who...

Posted to Coding Sanity (Weblog) by codingsanity on 04-18-2008
Telkom in the dwang for claims

It looks like Telkom is in a bit of a pickle over its recent " Do Broadband " advertising. A post on MyBroadband details the complaint from a consumer that says its false advertising. Mr Moorad lodged a consumer complaint against Telkom’s “do” broadband campaign, arguing that the advertisements...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 09-20-2007
MadLove wins Xbox Soundtracks competition for South Africa

In a previous post I originally announced that two South African bands were in the top rated tracks list in the Xbox Soundtracks competition run by Microsoft and Universal Music. Today it was announced in a press release that the local Johannesburg based band MadLove had been crowned as the South Africa...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 08-22-2007
The death of Home Theatre PCs in South Africa

I was saddened to open my feed reader this morning. A local developer and Windows Media Center enthusiast, Colin Savage, who was the man behind the ZaEpg service has been legally forced to cease and desist by the South African television monopoly known as MultiChoice. Yes everyone that is running a HTPC...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 08-20-2007
Nickelback to tour end of the year

Its been a few months since I blogged about the Nickelback tour to South Africa. The organizer, Kusasa , never did get around to a press release and the concert wasn't rescheduled for early in 2007 as was claimed last year. So I finally got on the phone to the organizers them and apparently the band...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 07-29-2007
eNaTIS Security

Well, well, well, it appears that we will need a separate topic for this. My eNaTIS Performance post was very popular, with a lot of people expressing their dissatisfaction with the system. As before, I'd like to try and keep this to facts and figures, however in this case that may be difficult....

Posted to Coding Sanity (Weblog) by codingsanity on 07-05-2007

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