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The Gautrain

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Gautrain2, originally uploaded by hartleyr.

Felt a bit like it was watching me like HAL. “Good morning Ray. I hope you will enjoy the ride.”

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The Gautrain

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Gautrain2, originally uploaded by hartleyr.

Felt a bit like it was watching me like HAL. “Good morning Ray. I hope you will enjoy the ride.”

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p1 November 25 08

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p1 November 25 08, originally uploaded by hartleyr.

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 As of today, I can be found on my souped-up The Times blog on the new blogging platform developed by (the ever-so-slightly overworked) Colin Daniels for the interactive paper. I’m not so sure about the pictures on the masthead, but I’m told this is the corporate look … I suppose there is always photoshop.

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Lesley starts blogging

The redoubtable Lesley Mofokeng, entertainment reporter extraordinaire at the Sunday Times has started a blog on the Times platfrom. It will follow his life as Mr Entertainment and, of late, as a contestant in the Strictly Come Dancing competition. He is the second blogger on our platform following the somewhat hurried launch of the Bullog.

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We have been on a steep learning curve since Wednesday last week when we started working to our regular schedule. Here are some issues:
 Our final dummy has a lot of added value concepts that require focus and hard work to find, write, edit and lay out. The streamlining of scheduling and the features production process has [...]

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Masthead for Friday …

Masthead, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
A glimpse of the masthead for our friday dummy while it was being designed …

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Gotta love those brilliant Amatomu buzzgraphs. Check this one out on the Bulls vs Sharks.
Meanwhile, SA Rugby has issued an official statement on how much Luke Watson bench-pressed. Really.

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First Splash

First Splash, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
An ever-so-slightly tense news editor, Marvin Meintjies, edits the first splash contender after our first dummy run today. Note the clenched fist …
 Added Friday morning: I can happily report that no other newspaper had our splash! Phew!

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Read this great piece from Wired about over-reaction to the Virginia Tech killings. In light of the recent Blog Day Afternoon over Bullard, this sentence did catch my eye:
A high school student was suspended for customizing a first-person shooter game with a map of his school.
Just the kind of geek that … ?

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