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jasonadriaan | 14 years ago | on: Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

It's incredibly difficult to overstate the importance of this moment for science and humanity as a whole. The commercialization of space travel is the only way that we will ever see the stars, as no longer are we at the mercy of the fluctuating interest in space travel from the already over-extended tax payers of certain nations. This is a beautiful moment for humanity, and a damn awesome way to start the weekend!

jasonadriaan | 14 years ago | on: SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)

Elon Musk is South African

jasonadriaan | 14 years ago | on: Yahoo proves that Silicon Valley is no different to Hollywood

well put :) too bad yahoo is going to drag us all down with them though.

jasonadriaan | 14 years ago | on: Video: Quantum Levitation

not exactly, I just posted it to tumblr. It would be blogspam if I were running ads, but I don't.

jasonadriaan | 14 years ago | on: Earn money in your sleep

adii ftw!

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Redesign.techcrunch.com

Looks like 8-bit green vomit

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

Well the post is my reflections on a number of conferences. That's why I said hundreds of people, because I've been to plenty of em. :)

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

lol

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

I guess I could to that but it would be an e-mail to like hundreds of people, easier just to blog about it. Also this is much more entertaining :P

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

Hey @f. Firstly you're reading my tweets out of context. Yep I'm sure the environment is vastly different and that VCs and Angels are more salted in the States. The names on your list I would obviously PAY to see. But this doesn't hold true for the guys surfacing in Africa and asked to speak at conferences.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

Very true, I actually wrote about Umbono a while back. http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/20/how-googles-umbono-g...

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

Also... 5.) Speakers who use the MS Office 2000 templates for their slides.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

Hello there from Cape Town :)

Thanks for the insight, yeah I agree totally. I'm sure there are a number of VC's/Angels worth listening to but the vast majority of them don't know what they're talking about imho.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

In South Africa it's weird, Social media people are almost always speaking at Tech Conferences. This annoys the hell out of me because they are essentially marketers.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: The Young Successful Drop Out – The Most Dangerous Lie in Tech

Play it safe I say and finish up at college.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Why Facebook should Police their API

Took them days even after being published all over the news. Apps should be checked before they go public. Having said that the Bin Laden malware didn't use the API although many other apps do.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: War on Sony – 102 million accounts compromised

Agreed. It's becoming more apparent that individuals within Anonymous or outside are taking credit or making threats on behalf of the group. No one else has yet taken credit for the attack officially though.

Sony is ultimately to be blamed for what is happening here, they were not paying attention to security and now a hundred million people have fallen victim.

jasonadriaan | 15 years ago | on: Ubuntu Servers around the World

From this map one can deduce that Europe clearly doesn't love paying for Server software.