Archive for January, 2008
Who you gonna call?
31 January 2008 by alan_cameronThe lights didn’t even flicker. My computer screen just went black.
Fortunately I had just updated the pages I was responsible for, but that didn’t give me much time to wait around for the electricity to come back on before they started to seem slightly stale.
IOL is in the fortunate position to have some smart (and [...]
Taking a load off
17 January 2008 by JuanitaEveryone is talking Eskom’s load shedding.
Yesterday it was the turn of IOL’s offices to be without power - luckily it happened at about 4pm when many editorial staff had already left for the day. And thanks to great planning by our technical department, we have four desktops on our side of the office to ensure [...]
Buzzing in the night
14 January 2008 by JuanitaI know there’s the Selebi case, as well as the new Springbok coach but Dimitri grabbed my attention with this email:
Hi there,
On Thursday 10th January 2008 , I was attacked by this giant mosquito. It made a buzzing sound so loud one could hear it from the other room. I managed to kill [...]
