The act of successfully submitting an award entry, through a frustrating system, is in itself deserving of an award.
This year's African ICT Achievers awards featured a bewildering assortment of genuine achievers and incompetents among its finalists.
I like awards; I like being able to call myself an award-winning journalist. And I imagine this is why companies enter - or like being entered - into such competitions.
It is easy for me, as a journalist, to criticise government on issues that make for good scandals, but are at times, irrelevant.
No doubt Novell thinks that this new era of co-operation will give it a much-needed boost.
Most of the money paid locally for software licences gets repatriated abroad, widening the country's current account deficit, and not necessarily boosting the local economy.
Government`s offset programmes have been touted as a means to counteract the outflow of foreign exchange, but have, in reality, led to expropriation of the local industry.
The good fortune of broad-based black economic empowerment is reserved for the select few.
The Cape Futurex ICT exhibition was an opportunity missed for organisers, exhibitors and visitors.
Rather than getting on with the business of IT, it appears women are shining the glass ceiling to better reflect their trendy hair-dos.
The crimexpo forums, limiting freedom of speech, highlight one of the biggest problems with discussion forums.
With the Internet, everything is accessible, and people seem to forget that just because it doesn`t require retyping, the information is not free to use, abuse, and plagiarise.
Is the industry really interested in allowing freedom of choice?