All News
Why the Stormers won’t win the 2012 Super XV
With the 2012 Super XV season almost upon us, I couldn’t decide whether to publish this piece before or after the Stormers’ first game of the season against the Hurricanes on Saturday. God forbid they should lose and some nut should curse me for jinxing them beforehand. In some parts of Cape Town the following piece of writing might even be considered blasphemous. But as a passionate supporter of the Super 15 franchise from the Western Cape, I feel that as we kick off proceedings,...
The Almost Anti-Valentine’s Post
Valentine /?val?nt??n/ n. 1. a card sent, often anonymously, on St Valentine’s Day, 14 February, to a person one loves or is attracted to Two weeks ago Stuart Hendricks suggested that I add an article towards his blog. I initially thought he was joking but to my surprise he was not. I spent 45 minutes daydreaming looking endlessly at my Blackberry of something ‘bloggy to write – hence Valentines is today and is an appropriate subject to irritate and recover the...
Social Network Obsession
To say that the Internet is an endless abyss of content would be a truism. It is a vast repository filled with useful and useless information, and has become so integral to our lives that it really would be hard to fathom life without it. It is used for good deeds, and similarly used for bad ones, too. But what worries me more is not so much the depth of the Internet itself. My concern has to do more with the sheer span of social networks which the Internet facilitates, and the...
RealTalkRealThought: A Public Service Announcement
I’m not sure what else to call this announcement. A PSA just seems like the right thing to call it, because it sounds all official and stuff. So in keeping with the official nature of this announcement, I’d like to inform all readers and followers of this blog that RTRT is changing its focus somewhat. Read More
