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.

Category: Tech

  • Back to Corporate life, but this time in SA

    Because of the economic downturn Lené and I decided to send me back. Back to the evil dungeons of corporate life. In other words; a real 9 to 5 job. I haven’t worked in corporate since leaving the UK in August 2006. Everyone knows corporate has its bad aspects, but by-and-large I enjoyed the environment.…

  • Avoid BSmart!

    I’ve been a reluctant customer with BSmart for over a year now. I am bound by a contract I signed with them, but my attorney says that hopefully I might be able to get out. If and when I do I will NEVER EVER do business with this highly unethical company again. It was my…

  • iPhone kom Suid Afrika toe

    Ek is ‘n groot aanhanger van Apple se goed. In Engeland het ek ‘n Nano gekoop en dit was fantasties – ek gebruik hom nou nog; by die werk gebruik ons iTunes as ons musiekspeler en ek het onlangs oorgeskakel na Safari as my amptelike browser. Apple se ontwerp is net eenvoudig die beste ,…

  • Boesmans sunrise/sunset & more

    I have just updated the Bushman’s River Mouth homepage to show a 3-day weather forecast. This data is ‘live’ and pulled via an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed from BBC. Sofar the forecasts have been very accurate. I’m still trying to get an RSS feed of the tides, but sofar the closest match is for…

  • Brand new Mercedes C Class: a beauty!

    We just saw the brand new Mercedes C Class outside our shop. It is so new it has not even been priced yet in this country nevermind released. I must say it is a beautiful car! I’ve always been a fan of Mercedes since my dad had the W126 (the best selling shape Merc has…

  • Digital cameras to benefit from new colour-filter

    Kodak has anounced a new colour filter that is supposed to be twice as sensitive to light. This means is that you will be able to take great photos in even darker conditions than you can presently. You can go pretty dark as itáis, butátypically you need to either keep the shutter open for longer…

  • Online at Last

    I am finally back online with an acceptable (albeit expensive) connection. I did manage to send a few emails and to update my blog once, but all of that was done through my parents’ 56K modem with the good ol’e tone and all! ADSL in SA is insanely expensive. Our 1MB that is capped at…

  • Nikkor 18-200mm VR… finally!

    I was very lucky to have purchased a highly rated Nikkor 18-200 VR lens today. I have been looking for this lens since November 2005 but they are almost impossible to get. Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Tina Aarsen of Fixation that changed today. I can’t wait to test it out so I’m hoping…

  • The old Steve Jobs: a bright star indeed

    Whilst reading up on Steve Wozniak, I came across some true Apple gems. Check out these video clips of Steve Jobs in his absolute element here. Look out for Bill Gates as well.

  • My Frappr page

    I don’t really get Frappr yet, but here is my Frappr page anyway. Please join (I think?) if you want to.