Sergei

Just another mediocre bad guy 



November 25, 2008

South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) doesn't allow citizens living abroad to vote

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in South Africa has recently come under fire from the SA blogging community and traditional news websites for failing to provide an accessible website to users of software other than Internet Explorer on the Windows operating system.

As a result of the recent Presidential succession in South Africa and (most likely) the overwhelming result of the US elections, there's been a host of South African expatriates seeking to take part in the upcoming 2009 National Elections.

Unfortunately, they have discovered that the IEC does NOT in fact allow South African citizens living abroad to register or vote in National Elections.

This is in direct contravention of the country's constitution and the electoral act that governs the IEC.

I've decided to cover the developments of this issue at http://freemyvote.co.za and will be reporting on these issues daily.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I should proceed with this cause, please visit the site, drop me an email or comment on this discussion.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards
Sergei Muller
Free My Vote
http://freemyvote.co.za

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October 31, 2008

Justin Bond's Lustre

Last night I went to the Soho Theatre in London for Justin Bond's cabaret show called Lustre.

I had no idea what to expect because it was the first time I've ever been to a cabaret show.

Coincidentally... this would also be my first time to a theatre show in London.

On the whole, it was great. The venue was small, but didn't feel crowded. Acoustics were great and the performers seemed to connect really well with the audience.

Justin was accompanied by Our Lady J on piano and her performance was something to experience. I haven't seen piano playing skills like that in years. Here's a clip of her performing Pink Prada Purse.



Also performing was Novice Theory who rocked out on the accordion and seriously impressed everybody who attended.

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October 28, 2008

Obama 2008

Callie Shell had the privilege of photographing Barack Obama during his 2008 Campaign for the US Presidency.

View her website for some great photographs.

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October 27, 2008

Computer History in Legos

"German engineer and computer pioneer Konrad Zuse posing in front of his almost-finished masterpiece, the Z3."

Original article

via Matthew Buchanan

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October 16, 2008

Brendan Adams Trio

Brendan Adams Trio from South Africa rocking a very melodic song called Butterfly Chronicles.

Check out more of their work at http://www.brendanadamstrio.com

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September 5, 2008

dConstruct 2008: The Urban Web

Stephen Johnson's talk The Urban Web was quite interesting.

While I find that his product, outside.in is quite good, I did feel that much of the talk sounded like a sales pitch.

Let's hope the rest of the day focuses more on new developments /  technologies in the social media industry.

Apart from that one niggle, the conference is going quite well - even though I mistook a delegate for one of the Madgex team.

Check back for more after the next talk.

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September 4, 2008

Ushahidi launches to monitor crisis

Ushahidi, which means ''testimony'' in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi's roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.

The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa. So far there are representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Netherlands and the US.

Ushahidi plans to make the Ushahidi mapping tool available globally for free. After initial testing with NGO's the tool will be distributed to interested parties and organizations, and the Ushahidi team will provide technical customizations and support as needed.

Here are 2 of the current deployments of the system:


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August 11, 2008

Vasco for sale :(

My girlfriend had her horse, Vasco, shipped over from Stuttgart, Germany to London, England at the beginning of this year.

Due to back problems she's decided to part with him.

If anyone knows about avid horse lovers in London, please point them to Vasco's website.

This is a very sad sale because he's such a lovable horse.

Thanks in advance guys.

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August 8, 2008

Charity T-Shirt Campaign

For the past day, I've been looking for a T-shirt supplier / digital print company in Cape Town, South Africa.

Instead of trawling dozens of websites with shoddy design and content, trying to asses whether they can meet my needs, I dropped a message onto Twitter and Facebook.

I was amazed at the amount (and quality) of responses I received.

I'm hoping to contact these companies over the course of the day to get quotes for a T-Shirt campaign I plan on running to raise money for community projects in Cape Town.

In the meantime, I'm selling one design on my Cafepress store with all profits going to charity.

The T-Shirt says: SOUWF EFRIKA ARE WHERE THE HEART'S AT

It's written in the English dialect of a first language Afrikaans speaker and means, "South Africa is where the heart's at".

Have a listen to this radio show to hear what I mean.


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August 6, 2008

More experiments in photography

I found 2 more pics I took ages ago...

I was just messing about with my shitty little point-and-shoot Canon Powershot A530.


   
Click here to download:
More_experiments_in_photograph.zip (886 KB)

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