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I wanted to share a few things about getting online, both in terms of internet and mobile in South Africa, particularly for UK residents.
The first thing I did when I landed was pick up a HSDPA package from Vodacom Hire. This is a really convenient service for a temporary solution. They give you a [...]

I was digging around on the Wayback Machine today, and got all nostalgic looking at old versions of Subdivision, from back when I was a student from 1999-2001, producing similar feelings to poking around in those old boxes of photos under the stairs
2/2/2001: "subdivision was officially launched today, much to the rapture of... well, just [...]

Client: Multinational media training institute
Date: September 2005
Involvement: Entire process, solo project
Applications: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Fireworks
Target: Potential web, 3d and multimedia students
Published: Digit

Client: Multinational media training institute
Date: September 2005
Involvement: Entire process, solo project
Applications: Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Fireworks, Flash
Target: Potential web, and multimedia students

Client: Multinational media training institute
Date: Various
Timeframe: Approx 2 hours each
Involvement: Entire process, solo projects
Applications: Illustrator, Photoshop
I've produced several banners for the SAE website to promote workshops in the past. The timeframe was horrifically short every time, yet there was a requirement to make them 'different' each time! Here's a selection of a few designs.

A really cool book of stories, as much about 'social engineering' as actual down & dirty hacking written in primarily non-techie language - each one could be a 'Catch me if you can' or Swordfish style film.
Robin Hoods, opportunists and plain old thieves, but all the people featured display amazing ingenuity and sideways thinking.
Mitnick himself [...]

Being Digital
N. Negroponte
The DNA of Information
Bits and Atoms
The best way to appreciate the merits and consequences of being digital is to reflect on the difference between bits and atoms. While we are undoubtedly in an information age, most information is delivered to us in the form of atoms: newspapers, magazines, and books (like this one).
Our [...]

Code: The Hidden Language
Charles Petzold
Best Friends
You're 10 years old. Your best friend lives across the street. In fact, the windows of your bedrooms face each other. Every night, after your parents have declared bedtime at the usual indecently early hour, you still need to exchange thoughts, observations, secrets, gossip, jokes, and dreams. No one can [...]

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Enquire Within upon Everything
When I first began tinkering with a software program that even-tually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for "Enquire Within upon Everything," a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London.
With [...]

"A small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics."
There is a way to embed any font into your webpage, and retain good web standards. Try selecting the title text on the website [...]