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My view on Detroit terror attempt
On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a son of one of Nigeria's richest families was preparing to board a flight to Detroit from Schiphol Airport, in Amsterdam one of the world's...
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NASA announces 2nd 1st space tweet
I thought I was having a senior moment this week, when NASA announced the "first tweet from outer space this week," by astronaut TJ Creamer, who declared: "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting...
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Help me Wow them at WTF, South Africa
I will be taking a double red eye to South Africa to speak at a conference called WTF at the University of Technology, Capetown campus. Yes, the letters stand for what you think they stand for. I...
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Cape Town & Good Hope
My first thought is that Cape Town is a dramatically beautiful place, a glistening thriving city cloistered between dramatic mountains and two oceans, one green, and the other blue. My second thought...
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Pilgrimage to Mandela’s Island Cell
[ Billy Nair. Former Robben Island Prisoner. Now a tour guide. Photo by Shel] Everyone I meet in So. Africa seems to hold Nelson Mandela in high esteem. “He is Tata,” Marian Pike told me,...
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US Rethinking Air Travel Security Procedures
On one of the busiest travel days of the year, as protesters vow to challenge screening and pat-down procedures by TSA security officers, the US has announced it is reconsidering whether or not all...
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Location-based services: Where are they at?
So many of my early adopter friends have embraced certain kinds of location-based services [LBS] such as FourSquare, Gowalla and BrightKite. I have not joined them. I do not enjoy their frequent...
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