Cape Town, the mother city

[Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com>]

Folks,

  I returned to Cape Town, the mother city, the first city in
  South Africa. I am staying with friends from work, who have
  an apartment overlooking the Atlantic.

  The smell of the sea in the morning, and the sunsets, one every
  day, computer access, a resort town.

  I step symbolically onto a plane on June 2nd, as the country
  takes part in the second election since apartheid. I am visiting
  the States for a month, until early July.

  The ANC will win, the question is whether they will attain the
  two-thirds majority necessary to have the option of fiddling
  with the constitution.

  The Democratic Party and (New) National Party appear to be running
  neck-and-neck, and the IFP will be regionalised to Zululand and
  the mines. A good scattering of kook political parties..

  I am back at InTouch, looking at the progress on SMS delivery
  software we write for Vodacom, the major cell network in South
  Africa. I am also doing a peer review of software within the
  company, and setting up a few more linux servers, and reading
  about the new Merced architecture ..

  wizzy.com will be re-hosted soon, so I am doing some work in
  that area too - with vservers.com, your own virtual machine.

  Last night I went to see "The Matrix", a new SciFi movie.

  When I come back to South Africa, I would like to publish a
  (free) weekly CDROM, where content providers would pay to
  have a presence. It would also contain free software, mp3s,
  and maybe some educational websites. Later versions will
  have a search engine, to tell you which previous edition
  had the information you wanted.

Cheers,    Andy!

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