Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • Nothing beats Beethoven (for me anyway)

    I have been suffering of music fatigue lately. You know; when everything on your iPod sounds old. Then last night I stuck Beethoven’s Triple Concerto by Herbert von Karajan and I just realised again what an absolute genius this man was. Nowadays we use the word genius way too much, but I don’t think anyone…

  • Clapham Common Fireworks

    We went to see the annual fireworks at Clapham Common on Friday. I wanted to experiment with night time photography as I’d not really had any success with this before. I did learn a lot and I’m looking forward to the next oppurtunity, but I do think I managed to take some nice ones. View…

  • The Heunis Family

    I don’t know nearly enough about the Heunisses so I’m thinking of putting together a Heunis database. I figure that Heunis.NET will be a good place to host this as well. All I know of the Heunis family tree from my sisters (Katinka Ladewig and Abbie Heunis) and I (Attie Heunis) up is: Rulan Heunis…

  • All work and no play

    Moi at work. This photo was taken by Wanda. Note the high tech way that my colleagues and I, as technically inclined people, have presented our functional requirements.  

  • The Newell & Budge Boys (or New Biscuits)

    These are The .NET Consultants for Sopra Newell & Budge. Regrettably Adrian Rodgers will be making his presence felt (-up!) elsewhere from tomorrow. I wish Adrain (sic) all the best and I have to admit that it was brilliant to work with him. He will certainly know what I mean when I say the “thick…

  • iPod Nano – I couldn’t resist anymore

    I’ve been slagging off people, including LenT, that own iPods for a while now. My opinion was that they’re much more about fashion than about music. But since I had my first play with a Nano I was interested and today I couldn’t resist any longer. I hope the ú179-00 I paid for it is…

  • WWF Walk for Wildlife

    We have just come back from our Walk for Wildlife sponsored hike. It was a gorgeous day and it was only 5 miles around the Thames and Richmond Park. It is such a beautiful part of London you shouldn’t really need an excuse to do this walk. Each year the WWF choose an animal as…

  • When things were different

    Whilst going through a bunch of old photos, I came accross these classics. These are The Boys. They’re a rare breed of genial yet modest software magicians. The code that these freaks came up with could well have changed the world had they not lost The One. Once The One had left – now nowhere…

  • 10MB Broadband upgrade!

    I’ve just been informed by Telewest, my ISP, that my connection will soon be upgraded from 2MB to 10MB for downloads and from 256KB to 384KB for uploads! The best thing about this is that the upgrade is 100% free. Is this the time to start thinking about hosting from home?

  • Happy Birthday Blog!

    Today, exactly one year ago I created my first post. So far I have found it a very worthwhile exercise. Much better than watching trash on TV anyway!