The Great Proteas

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Hey, don’t let the cricketers give a good flower a bad name. This still life courtesy of a well positioned skylight.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy

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A doodle during a meeting today. Actually, it was a very smooth meeting in which decisions were made quickly.

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Newsroom management

The above was spotted at the Johannesburg zoo … 
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What makes for bad newsroom dynamics? I think it has something to do with unnatural selection. To succeed as a reporter, you must be competitive, individualistic and aggressive (old school, but still relevant, I think). If you succeed, you get promoted and you take all [...]

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The Apple iRack

You know those (not so) funny Apple ads in which two stereotypes have a go at each other? Well, they have kind of played out in our discussion about the hardware platform we will be using for The Times. I `grew up’ on PCs, but have never liked them. The operating systems have never been [...]

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A serious problem with Google blogging. Yuck

Just had a bad blogging experience. I just visited my picture blog which is hosted by Blogger (Google in disguise) to be confronted by a very nasty shock. Expecting to see the pictures of my toddler daughter which I had posted, I was instead confronted by some sicko’s gallery of pornographic comic images. I followed [...]

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