Wham! Bam! Instagram!
If you’re a regular visitor to my blog you might have noticed that I now have an Instagram feed on the home page. Joining Instagram is something I didn’t expect I would do. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but I’ve always been deeply skeptical about the quality and real value of our social exchanges in this age of unprecedented connectivity and networking. Of course, I do see the merits of social media, but I...
Wham! Spam! Thank You Ma’am!
The server that hosts my website e-mail has spam filtering software that’s a little on the overzealous side! A while back I discovered that it sometimes mistakenly quarantines e-mails from people I’ve marked as safe. Whenever I would receive follow up calls after urgent messages went unanswered, I’d look in the junk folder and there they’d be – e-mails from bona fide senders in the unsavoury company...
April’s Fool
I can’t believe this is my first post for 2015! The year is, somewhat predictably, whizzing by in a blur. Is it April already? I feel so cheated! It all started with the 2014 silly season (the only time the South African television production industry takes a break, albeit a very short one). I was especially excited about this particular end-of-year time out because we weren’t expecting any stay over guests – so...
Snapshots
“You say a lot, but reveal very little,” read the message. Clever and observant “Joe”, as I shall call him, wrote to me recently to convey his thanks, in particular, for the “Dear Young Person” series of posts on this blog – but he also added that he felt a “little cheated” by the fact that I seemed excessively guarded about my personal life. “I understand that you...
