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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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March 11
“ Fifa, the monopoly organiser, is the major beneficiary while South Africa, the host nation “carries a disproportionate share of the cost burden”. Citibank’s research arm - Business Report - Home - World Cup’s main beneficiary is Fifa, and SA’s slice slims
Tags: Fifa South Africa soccer worldcup 2010 quotes
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February 10
Africa will soon be awash with bandwidth Take a look at the thickness of the lines. The thin black line is the SAT3 undersea cable that South Africa has been reliant on for years. See how it’s dwarfed by the capacity of the new cables. Nice, nice, nice. I have always maintained, that there are 3 things in life that there’s never enough of (or said another way - you’ll use all you get): money, parmesan cheese and bandwidth. The WACS cable makes the funky new Seacom cable look skinny! Bring it on. via African Undersea Cables «Many Possibilities

Africa will soon be awash with bandwidth

Take a look at the thickness of the lines. The thin black line is the SAT3 undersea cable that South Africa has been reliant on for years. See how it’s dwarfed by the capacity of the new cables. Nice, nice, nice.

I have always maintained, that there are 3 things in life that there’s never enough of (or said another way - you’ll use all you get): money, parmesan cheese and bandwidth.

The WACS cable makes the funky new Seacom cable look skinny! Bring it on.

via African Undersea Cables «Many Possibilities

Tags: South Africa bandwidth charts tech articles
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January 21

360 degree Virtual Tour of Cape Town’s new Stadium

Please click the Full Screen option on the top right
Tags: Cape Town South Africa Stadium World Cup
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December 13
Highest Definition picture of Cape Town, South Africa

This is pretty cool. 205,000 pixels wide!

1850 images, each 10 megs in size, all stitched together.
Tags: Cape Town South Africa photography
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December 9

Most searched for politicians on Google South Africa

  1. nelson mandela
  2. jacob zuma
  3. julius malema
  4. helen zille
  5. robert mugabe
  6. trevor manuel
  7. mvume dandala
  8. jackie selebi
  9. patricia de lille
  10. ian khama

I wonder how Helen feels being pipped by Julius :-)

For more insight - go here

Tags: Google politics South Africa
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December 2

Realtime Energy Consumption Monitoring for World Cup 2010 Draw in Cape Town

This is a great initiative! Go to http://www.measure2manage.co.za and watch the realtime stats of how much energy is consumed during the draw process.

From their website:

“Eskom has partnered with the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) and embarked on an energy saving initiative, ‘Measure 2 Manage’, which will measure energy consumption in real-time from 30 November to 7 December, 2009, monitoring the pre-draw and final-draw activities taking place at the CTICC.”

Tags: energy Cape Town South Africa World Cup FIFA Football soccer
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November 18

All things being equal, we’re not doing too badly on CO2

Tags: charts google eco South Africa
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November 9
Burgernomics I think positioned half way just better than Rome and worse than Paris sounds fine.

Burgernomics

I think positioned half way just better than Rome and worse than Paris sounds fine.

Tags: economics charts South Africa
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November 8
“ The number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded the number banking from their PCs in South Africa. World Wide Worx - via TechCentral
Tags: tech mobile phone South Africa quotes banking
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November 5
“ So, we’d all like to be more Catholic than the Pope, and we commend the Honourable Zille on having attained that status, but let’s be real about this issue as well. Trevor Manuel: Purchase of expensive car ‘not well-advised’ - Mail & Guardian
Tags: fun quotes politics South Africa
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October 18

Mail & Guardian’s ZA News

Puppetry & satire at it’s best

Watch some more here: ZA News

Tags: politics fun news South Africa
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October 11
Google StreetView car in Voortrekker Rd Cape Town Google is in full tilt to get this done by 2010 World Cup. Go guys, go!

Google StreetView car in Voortrekker Rd Cape Town

Google is in full tilt to get this done by 2010 World Cup. Go guys, go!

Tags: Google StreetView Cape Town South Africa tech maps
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October 9
Cool pics of Cape Town’s new Stadium in Greenpoint View the full gallery here:

Cool pics of Cape Town’s new Stadium in Greenpoint

View the full gallery here:

Tags: Cape Town soccer stadium South Africa FIFA
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September 21
A year-by-year tour of how Twitter has been taking over the world Click-through to see the world maps from 2006 to 2009. Interesting!

A year-by-year tour of how Twitter has been taking over the world

Click-through to see the world maps from 2006 to 2009. Interesting!

Tags: twitter tech south africa stats
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September 1
Google to launch Maps “Street View” in South Africa This is great news - been waiting to see Google do this for ages. They have really upped their game on the SA Maps lately, getting all the SA street names and places mapped. Google SA are teaming up with Toyota and will be using the Prius to drive around with the cameras in the coming months. I can see a whole bunch of opportunities to “do something silly for when the cam cars drive down your street”. All this before Soccer 2010. Nice.

Google to launch Maps “Street View” in South Africa

This is great news - been waiting to see Google do this for ages. They have really upped their game on the SA Maps lately, getting all the SA street names and places mapped.

Google SA are teaming up with Toyota and will be using the Prius to drive around with the cameras in the coming months. I can see a whole bunch of opportunities to “do something silly for when the cam cars drive down your street”.

All this before Soccer 2010. Nice.

Tags: google google maps south africa toyota prius tech
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