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One week from now there is an orienteering race in Stellenbosch (Coetzenburg). I simply cannot let this opportunity to race without spending much time travelling, slip past. As such, I’ve started training again, yay! I’ve gone for two runs, the first on Friday night, in the dark, in the mud. Depending on your level of [...]

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At times, I’m torn between citing my sources (giving credit where credit is due), and respecting the privacy of my sources. This happens most often when I want to quote out of a personal conversation, the conversation is private and the person I’m talking to or emailing, does not expect to be quoted on a [...]

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Traditional blogging wisdom would say I should have more than one blog, to keep the subject matter more “focused”. Well, oops. What can I say. I’ll sort that out when my thesis is done. (Like the rest of my life. ) In the mean time, I’ll always feel some urge to not post more technical [...]

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A job is something that you do that is of value to someone else – that someone else then does something for you in exchange. Of course, since we often do things for people who have nothing to offer us directly, we do an indirect trade… through use of tokens we call money. The resource [...]

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I saw “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” yesterday, on the big screen. Unfortunately it wasn’t surprisingly good. (“Sequels are typically bad” still applies). On Metacritic, Pirates I, II and III scored 64/8.8, 53/6.6 and 50/5.2 successively. I can understand that. (That’s critics/users, and >60 for critics, is a “favourable” score.) I am unfortunately [...]

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