I really hate regurgitating other blog posts and stories but sometimes there is just some really great stuff out there that needs its due recognition. Instead of reproducing the same stories from my perspective I am going to list a couple of cool things that are going on or have gone on and briefly just talk about one particular story that made me laugh.
To begin:
SA’s extreme swimmer to swim to North Pole
A swimmer who grew up in South Africa will be braving the icy waters of the Arctic as he attempts to swim to the North Pole in an effort to raise awareness about global warming. – sagoodnews
Just Jinjer is back and rocking out in June. – insidepeakperformance
Afrikaans version of Firefox released
That is freakin’ kool ekse! – sagoodnews
Everest 2007 Summit champs return home
I have posted about this before, but these incredible South Africans are on their way home!
Finally, on to the laugh for the week:
Yeah!Fi has a great post titled “Idiot of the Week“. What a laugh.
The post is centered around the bandwidth issue here in SA. The fact that people are being forced to host their local sites abroad has become a major issue of late. It has even pushed a group of people to start a website that is calling for people to place viruses on local sites that drain bandwidth and put pressure on Telkom in this way.
Are you kidding me? That is a really smart idea in principle, it really is, but think about it for a second, local sites will suffer now and today if this works and telkom will be laughing to the bank. Change needs to happen in a gradual process and I think that there are things in place that are making life a little easier, but not overnight.
I think it is great that people are noticing the problems here in SA and are thinking outside of the box to solve these problems. Now we just need to get people to stop being malicious in their approach to solutions and we’ll be set!!
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