The latest blackout came like a bolt out of the blue, almost like last year, when Koeberg "broke", plunging Cape Town into darkness.
The hype surrounding Apple's new wonder toy is unjustified.
This year is going to be risky for all of those companies which have, as yet, failed to grasp the basics of security.
Malware has become an industry, largely motivated by financial gain rather than mere bragging rights gain.
While the law is the Ace, the regulator is the Joker of the pack.
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.