Slow Thoughts from Dale du Preez

  • A Lingering Effect of Apartheid

    Apartheid lingers on in South Africa in so many more ways than just racial tension and structural inequalities. I don’t find this in itself surprising, but I haven’t come across much analysis of many current events and trends in terms of the past. More specifically, I haven’t seen much written…

  • Flickr Update

    As you may have noticed, I updated my Flickr stream with photos from my recent trip to Seattle. Here is a nice photo of the Space Needle:

  • The Cost of “Safety”

    I read a recent email on Dave Farber’s Interesting People mailing list that surprised me somewhat. The email was in reference to the extreme level of phone tapping used by the FBI in fighting the “war on terror”, but the thing that surprised me was not the content of the…

  • Amusement

    I couldn’t help but find two posts from Jeremy Nell’s Trash Media to be absolutely hilarious. The first is the text of a post entitled “Why I don’t hate American Idiots.” An excerpt won’t capture the politically incorrect, off-the-wall brilliance of the post, so I won’t give you anything more…

  • Be(com)ing a Bum

    Cable television + high definition pictures + broadband internet + comfy couch + no money + lazy Dale => uber-bum. I’ve been terrible for the last few days. I’ve gotten as far as scaring myself. I have become a truly lazy bum. I could feel it coming on, but my…

  • Photo Update

    I’ve added the best of my photos from the last while to my Flickr account. Should you wish to see some of my photos, feel more than free to visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/daledupreez/. Oh, and comments either on Flickr or here are more than welcome.

  • Back in Action

    I am now back from home and actually have a meaningful connection to the internet and all its denizens. I still need to process all my photos from the trip around the US and South Africa, but I’ll notify people of that as and when such things come to pass.…