Attie Heunis's Journey
The ramblings of a Caucasian African American
Author: Attie Heunis
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I’ve just seen on Scott Kelby’s blog (at http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2007/archives/211) that Lightroom is set to release a minor upgrade any day now. As I understand the updgrade is supposed to be free (phew!) and includes improved sharpening and noise reduction, improved file mobility & improved preset organisation (through folders). All of this sounds superb, but I…
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Elke has been getting really close to crawling all week, but today she officially started crawling. Three days shy of turning 8 months. This is meant to be early (babies usually crawl anything from 9 to 12 months), but I expect nothing less from our genius baby 🙂
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I am deeply troubled by China’s commitment to spend $20bn on infrastructure and trade financing over the next three years as reported by the Financial Times. I’ll be frank: I don’t trust China or any African leaders with $20bn. It is no secret that China are after Africa’s resources. This is quite clearly a play…
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I’ve used Adobe Photoshop Elements until now, but Elements don’t work as well with RAW so I need to upgrade. The 2 obvious choices (I use Nikon) are Nikon Capture NX and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. They both allow you to non-destructively improve your photos. This is what I’ve found: In my opinion Lightroom’s organisation and…
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Most people would agree that Australians are an unpleasant bunch. They’re extraordinarily arrogant, they talk funny; they have questionable views on personal hygiene and they have an uncanny liking for sheep. As an example, Shane Warne is Australian. Many of my Australian friends also fit this profile. 🙂 But when it comes to environmental issues…
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What I love about this movie is that (in the same way as Crash did the year before) Blood Diamond takes care not to have Hollywood goodies & baddies. Say what you like, but white Southern African white males are always portrayed in the Western media as violent racist thugs, but it is just not…
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This speech by keynote speaker Guy Lundy, formerly of Ernst & Young, Oracle, the London Stock Exchange and Dimension Data, has been mentioned a lot lately: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice…
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Lené suggested this book to me. Her previous recommendation (Life of Pi) was outstanding so I had hopes for this one. I was however disappointed. It just wasn’t a story I could get into. I know its good how the autistic boy figures things out etc. But to me there’s not enough of a story.
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This graph represents the actual sales for the Red Apple Farm Stall® from 4 December 2006 to the present. I’m obviously not going to show the actual figures, but I think this graph is very informative nonetheless. The graph illustrates clearly how much of a seasonal bump we get over Christmas. Definitely worth a look…
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This is a post in response to some discussions I had about my previous post about the controversial De La Rey by Bok van Blerk. One of my friends suggested that the word nationalism had such negative connotations that it is offensive. I must admit I was quite taken aback by this view. Lets first…
Attie Heunis's Journey 