Free KEYNOTE addresses at LINUXWORLD this week!
The Linux conference is this week (as part of FUTUREX) and if you’re interested in the FREE KEYNOTE SESSIONS best you get moving and register (we’ll be suprised if they’re not full yet!) Keynote speakers are: John “Maddog” Hall from Linux International Chris Pratt from IBM Canada Jeff Waugh from Ubuntu The penguin logo is not gr… eat and the website is very bland, but click here to go and check it out for more information. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Dates: 16 – 19 May 2006 Times: Tues/ Wed/ 10h00 – 18h00; Thurs 10h00 – 20h00; Fri 10h00 – 17h00 Venue: Sandton Convention Centre, Gauteng, South Africa Since its debut in 1999, LinuxWorld has remained the world’s leading event series for open source professionals and all who are interested in Linux and open source technologies. Linux is the fastest growing operating system in the world and predictions for coming years indicate that open source is and will remain one of the major issues in IT. At present, 22 shows are held worldwide. And is once again being collocated with Futurex 2006 in South Africa – the country’s leading event for the information and communications technology and electronics industries....
Mix n Match stripes and lace in Hong Kong
WOW! Hong Kong has blown Editorista’s mind and is now ranked as her favourite city in the world. It’s mind boggling. She will be writing a travel piece on it in the next few weeks for another site and will let readers know where to go and read all about it. But for now… she let’s you in on a little more Eastern fashion. ECLECTIC has to be the only word that one can use … to describe the awesome style that trend-setting teens and young hipsters are wearing in Hong Kong. The three dominant colours are red, navy blue and white and the dominant fabrics are stripes and POLKA DOTS!!! Oh yes …. Dots are everywhere. And don’t forget to add in lots of LACE. LACE LACE LACE. LAYER. BAGGY. BOLD. MOSHIMOSHI If you look at this photo you’ll see that there’s something about the way the clothes are combined that reminds Editorista of the Japanese craze known as HARAJUKU girls… have you heard about them? Harajuku girls are part of the new Japanese generation – girls whose fashion comes from the streets and is displayed on the streets – they hang out in Harajuku looking wacky, wonderful and certainly weird for some. Who knows, maybe Hong Kong girls are trying to emulate the Japanese style but their look is so crazy you have to love it. Gwen Stefani recently featured some of the girls on her song HARAJUKU GIRLS where she sings all about them… Click here to go to Gwens site and see some HARAjUKu girls. Harajuku is actually the suburb in Tokyo where all the girls get dressed up and hang out in waiting for photographers to snap away…. There is another suburb called Shibuya which also has its own mode of Shibuya style fashion. Here is a more succinct explanation: “Real harajuku girls are just the funky dressers who hang out in the Japanese shopping district of Harajuku. To the uninitiated, harajuku style can look like what might happen if a 5-year-old girl jacked up on liquor and goofballs decided to become a stylist. Layering is important, as is the mix of seemingly disparate styles and colors. Vintage couture can be mixed with traditional Japanese costumes, thrift-store classics, Lolita-esque flourishes and cyber-punk accessories. In a culture where the dreaded “salary man/woman” office worker is a fate to be avoided for this never-wanna-grow-up generation, harajuku style can look as radical as punk rockers first looked on London’s King Road or how pale-faced Goths silently sweating in their widows weeds look in cheerful sunny suburbs.” Excerpt from an article on http://www.kissui.net by MiHi Ahn. Click here...
Watch “Special A” if you live near a cellphone palmtree!
Reports tell us that those innocuous looking faux palm trees hanging out in suburbia certainly don’t promise pina coladas on a beachfront. Unless you’ve been watching too much Baywatch you too would have been suspicious of their authenticity and perhaps also noticed that they don’t sway in time with the other trees around them. The artificial palm trees have been created by some… ‘geniuses’ who like to think we are easily quelled and fooled. How can you not notice the blinking cellphone mast that stretches out of the middle of the trunks transmitting the waves that enable us to yak on our free minutes on our over-priced cell phone contracts. Well big business, we’re not buying it. We know they’re plastic. Special Assignment investigates the possibility that they may be more sinister than they appear. While this intro is fairly tongue-in-cheek it looks to be a serious...
Get ready for the Durban Film Festival!
Well we hope you got those entries in& There are over 300 films on offer so we will assume that you did. Joburgers battling with the Jozi cold, head down to Ethekwini for a bit of SHISA humidity. The dates have been confirmed& Dates have been announced for this year’s Durban International Film Festival. The 27th edition of South Africa’s longest-running film festival ta…kes place from 14 to 25 June, 2006, and film fans can expect over 300 screenings of the best in current world cinema. Principal screening venues are Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Nu-Metro CineCentre SunCoast, Cinema Nouveau Gateway, Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre in KwaMashu, BAT Centre, Stable Theatre in Alice Street, with further screenings at tertiary institutions and in township areas where cinemas are non-existent. Programme booklets containing the screening schedule and synopses of all the films will be available free at cinemas, Computicket, and other outlets towards the end of May. Full festival details can also be found on www.cca.ukzn.ac.za or on 031-260 2506 or 260 1650. ————————————————————— Moviemakers, get your films ready for the Durban International Film Festival – they have to be in by March so get going. Click here to go to the entry form. 27th Durban International Film Festival , 14-25 June 2006 The 27th Durban International Film Festival, taking place from 14 to 25 June 2006, will present over 300 screenings celebrating the best in South African, African and international cinema. Most of the screenings are either African or South African premieres. The festival also offers filmmaker workshops; industry seminars; discussion forums; outreach activities that include screenings in township areas where cinemas are non existent, and much more. The festival calls for entries from around the world. Feature films, short films and documentaries are all welcome. The festival does have a competition component. ENTRY DEADLINE: Short films – March 1; and March 15 for documentary and for feature films 2006 UNLESS BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal , Durban 4041 South Africa +27 (0) 31 260 2506 fax +27 (0) 31 260 3074...
ZUMA TRIAL – a REpresenter tells us what he thinks.
Thanks to the young RichieRich in Durban for sending us this article on the ZUMA trial which has filled the papers for the last few weeks…. What do our readers think? Do most think that his “shower” sentence was his undoing? Or is he a suitable candidate for vice-president? Let us know your thoughts! Monday the 8th of May 2006 will go down in history books throughout South Africa and abroa…d when Judge Justice Willem Van der Merwe acquitted former deputy president Jacob Zuma on all charges of rape after he “allegedly” raped a 31 year old family friend at his house in New Forest Town in Johannesburg on November the second last year. After 26 days of vicious courtroom drama friendships have been broken and enemies been made. Zuma (64) a member of the African National Congress ( ANC) is seen by many as a so called “war hero” after apartheid days and being on “the ground” unlike his counterpart President Thabo Mbeki, Zuma joined the military wing of the ANC and actively participated in protests and demonstrations against the then apartheid government. Many have questioned the steps to contracting HIV/AIDS after Zuma testified that he had taken a “shower” after engaging in sexual intercourse with an HIV positive lesbian to reduce the risk of Contracting HIV, while hundreds of South Africans have called the National Aids Helpline questioning such a statement. His testimony in the Johannesburg High Court also revealed that Mr. Zuma knows very little about HIV/AIDS prevention, bearing in mind his former leadership role of the South African National Aids Council. Sadly as some say that the governments HIV/AIDS “ABC” prevention campaign has now gone unheard of and ignored while others say that it had now become “ABCS” standing for the Abstinence, Befaithful,Condomise and Shower. A split has emerged between and within the ANC with divisions beginning in July last year when President Thabo Mbeki faced a challenging decision over Zuma’s drop of active duty and relieved him of party work. The ANC’s Youth League taking a different stance by ignoring ANC directive officials ordering that all demonstrations in support of Mr. Zuma should be co-ordinated and “monitored “through the general secretary. They have continued to support Zuma during the rape trial with a vociferous manner outside the high Court in Johannesburg. Zuma’s supporters in COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) have fallen silent since the rape charges were brought against him, but have continued to support him through his corruption charges set later this year, labeling it as a “Political Conspiracy”. Zuma’s Legal team rested largely on the fact that the sex with...
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