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Book sales
Published on 2012-02-22 02:40:00
I went to the Exclusive Books summer sale yesterday, and came home with seven books for R231.00Bartlett, Rosamund Benn, Anna. 2007. Literary Russia: a guide. New York: Overlook Duckworth.Callow, Philip. 1998. Chekhov: the hidden ground. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.Conradi, Peter J. 2010. Iris Murdoch, a writer at war: Letters & diaries 1938-46. London: Short.Conrad, Joseph. 2010. Heart of darkness. London: Collins Classics.Crystal, David. 2007. By hook or by crook: a journey in search of English.
The South Africa blogosphere, unravelled
Published on 2012-02-18 02:15:00
Amatomu's slogan used to be "The South African blogosphere, sorted."Well, now it has become unsorted, because Amatomu no longer seems to work. To "unravel" means to pull a knitted garment apart so that all you have is separate strands of wool, and you can no longer see the pattern or shape of the garment, or even the garment itself. It has gone.And one by one the tools that I used to use to find interesting blogs have gone, or become unusable.The first to go was Technorati. It's still there, I t
Unisa refuses to communicate by e-mail
Published on 2012-02-14 06:50:00
The University of South Africa (Unisa) used to be the biggest distance-education university in the southern hemisphere, but don't expect to be able to communicate with them by e-mail.Unisa refuses to accept e-mail from Telkom SA, South Africa's biggest telecommunications serivce, and the one that most other ISPs ride piggy-back on.Back when Unisa first started offering tuition, in 1961 or thereabouts, there was no e-mail, and so it was a correspondence university and everything went by snail mai
