When Alice in Wonderland immortalized the expression, “Down the rabbit hole!” it led to me exploring a fantastic new world of surprises and mysterious happenings. Many years ago, I was commissioned to make a documentary film on Speleology – caving, to the uninitiated. The area around Johannesburg, South Africa, and for some hundreds of miles […]
Talking of rugby…winning a World Cup takes a combination of skills, planning and physical attributes. Witness the World Cup that just finished in Japan. It was enormously successful for the host country’s team, proving their fitness a force to be reckoned with. South Africa’s win over England in the Finals highlighted another vital element of […]
I’m eighteen years old. I stare out from the stoep (porch) of our house overlooking the rolling sands of the Namib Desert, the oldest desert on Earth with the highest sand dunes in the world. As I sit in quiet thought, the scene is starkly beautiful and offers the sense of space and solitude I […]
Not so many years ago, before the Internet, networking was something that was done by a combination of letters, telephone calls and face-to-face communication. Back then, problems centered around who you could talk to and what you had of value to say or offer. Letters were letters, phones were phones and you could exchange real, […]
I can dream can’t I? In fact, this dream will soon become a reality … March 13, 2022. Gone are the feelings of dread as I open up my laptop, concerned that the report I filed yesterday may have gotten lost as I tried to send an encrypted version to a group I’m working with. […]
While our various means of communication have opened up dramatically over the past twenty years, we still have to keep in mind that initially the words “Social Media” were meant to describe an exciting concept that offered multiple ways of reaching other people. In others words, it was a great way of putting us all […]
According to recent research, only 30 percent of the world’s population owns a computer and most of those use one just for email or Internet. When ExoBrain launches, because of its simplicity of operation (as well as the remarkably modest fee of US$15 a month), a massive infusion of new clients will occur. Conceivably, within […]
As I gradually taught myself the basics of using a computer, not long before the arrival of the first laptops, I went through a transitional phase. This means that for a while I would still do all my creative writing longhand. Then I would laboriously type it out with two fingers on an ancient desktop. […]
Looking back to the days before laptops and the Internet, I recall my earliest attempts at writing were in1956, on a notepad that I had taken with me on a canoeing adventure from Paris to Lyon in France, a distance of some 400 kilometers. My buddy from Namibia, Alan Louw, and myself each had a […]
In terms of computing, my personal needs are fairly basic, but whatever I do use has to work well and without complications. I’ve yet to be really happy with existing systems. The most frustrating thing is when I manage to tackle something that is new for me, mostly by trial and error; then, the next […]