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19 March 2010 01:47

Superman's alter ego - Quintin Tarantino's analogy

Here is a small section of the Kill Bill script that I enjoyed very much. In true Tarantino story telling style, Tarantino analyses superman's alter ego and makes a few interesting deductions. "...l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially...
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23 November 2009 23:46

Work in progress...

A few pet projects I have on the go... 1. I am building a 3-tier WPF application that implements CRUD against the Northwind database. The middle tier include the WCF layer and the business layer and will leverage the Entity Framework to expose IQueryable...
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09 June 2009 20:01

Jean Hibbert's Terminator Salvation.

Terminator Salvation (Alpha Version) - a Story by Jean Hibbert. Some of the ideas have been stolen from the movie, and most of the scenes in the movie can be re-used on my take of Terminator Salvation. The reason I have re-written the story is because...
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03 November 2008 23:19

Seattle Day 1 - Sunday

The jet lag was pretty rough.... I still find myself waking up at wierd hours of the night and checking the time. I also have a lot on my mind at the moment, and am looking forward to the conference which kicks off in 1 hour. This blog post is about yesterday...
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24 September 2008 17:48

"Nice to have" VS "Must Have"

Programmers enjoy writing code. As long as we are not under too much preassure, its always fun to add those features into the system that are "nice to have" rather than critical or "must have" features. We have become "Code Addicts"...
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20 September 2008 04:40

Passion

Passion. It's a double edged sword. It can be used to achieve your wildest dreams and goals or it can make one very self destructive. Its that feeling you get in your chest when you listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony and the vocals kick in. Its...
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07 July 2008 06:37

The Matrix - "Temet Nosce"

I'd say I'm one of those people with an ingrained skeptical view of "societies view of what is write and wrong". My skepticism is also based on the idea that most authority figures are not necessarily basing their decisions on what they...
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02 May 2008 18:31

Lessons from the Dark Side of Life

This is a way overdue blog post, but one that I will enjoy writing. I have learned much from my past work and social experiences here in the UK. One thing I don't have(fortunately) are regrets. All my decisions have paid off so far and I now sit in...
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13 February 2008 19:42

Poor leadership in South Africa

I'd like to dedicate this blog post to Thabo Mbeki. I've never met the man, but I can say he has never failed to dissapoint me. He's never made any difference to South Africa, or voiced any speech that could inspire since he has come to office...
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12 February 2008 07:22

Daily thoughts...

Ok, its time to start using my blog. For much of 2007 and all of 2008 this poor blog has been deserted and left to wallow in it's misery. I actually feel sorry for my blog, I mean... not only does it only display meaningless blog posts that are incomplete...
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