June 2010

Vaudeville’s July Menu

30 June 2010

It is sensible, when feeding many people off a set menu that offers only three main course options (meat, fish or vegetarian), to stick to the safe, middle-of-the-road options. Any menu items that deviate from the broadest base of acceptance run the risk of creating problems due to the limited number of diners that would [...]

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Cape Town’s hottest new (old) address

19 June 2010

One of my favourite parts of the Cape Town city centre is the top of Adderley Street, where Wale Street joins from the right. If one continues up Wale it cuts right across the city (parallel to what would have been coastline), ending up in the Bo-Kaap, just below the point where the Noon Gun [...]

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Great Software Finds

17 June 2010

Leaving the secure embrace of full-time employment at Cloof in December last year had a number of implications. One of the most significant was the need to get my own laptop. I really, really badly wanted a Mac, but it was going to cost about R6000 more than a Windows machine. The first consideration was [...]

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Shades of Grey

16 June 2010

My online work often puts me in the position of needing to select colours for navigation menus, not to mention buttons, headings and many more. The problem is that one can’t just call something red, or green, or yellow. Not only does one need the Hex code for the colour (e.g. #000000 is black and [...]

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The World Cup’s Public Transport Legacy

13 June 2010

Almost every political leader with any kind of following has pronounced on the extent of our ‘World Cup legacy’. The most usual examples given are tangible ones – the bricks and mortar infrastructure upgrades to roads, airports, stadia and hospitality providers. Highest on the list of intangibles is the marketing effect of having the world’s [...]

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The Sport of PIIGS

1 June 2010

The Euro zone is in the news for all the wrong reasons at the moment. In fact, if the currency continues the way it’s going, South Africans may not be as keen to accept Greeks bearing euros. OK, maybe not only Greeks, but also Germans, Dutch and French. The most troubled European economies make up [...]

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