Thanks to the high-level of service from every South African's favorite company (http://www.hellkom.co.za) I can expect my new ADSL connection to my house to be installed at some undisclosed time in the next four to eight weeks.
Tectonic (http://www.tectonic.co.za) is running an article to find the most important FOSS milestones from Africa. The completed timeline (http://www.tectonic.co.za/timeline.php) will be submitted to Linux Journal with the hope that some of these entries will eventually make it onto the global list.I have already submitted the two most important milestones regarding OpenLab (the formation of the company and the first public release) as well as the release of mcedit. One I am holding back on is the launch of the OpenBSD project by Theo De Raadt for although Theo is South African born, the project started only after he had been living in Canada for many years. It can therefore at best be considdered African Inspired (at least as much as Ubuntu anyway) – as it is certainly not African. I still want to post the formation of Obsidian Systems (http://www.obsidian.co.za)which as the first FOSS services company in South Africa (and probably Africa) laid so much of the groundwork which companies like mine would later build on. The current timeline is however still incomplete, so fellow old-timers and newbs with a love of history – help out please, let us get all our greatest achievements listed.
Well I am here, that much has become abundantly obvious in the past day. I had prescious little to say about the initial layout of my furniture, since Denis and Lombani took care of that while (can you believe it) I spent moving day helping a customer with some work. I don't have internet to my new appartment yet – but I will hopefully be able to rectify this pretty soon. In the meantime, I have begun to settle in (just barely). My new beanbag furniture is way cool and totally comfortable – and so is my new computer desk (courtesey once more of Denis) although I will have to move it. So I am sitting in a cybercafe after having spent the afternoon listening to the best bagpipers in the country at the annual SA pipes competion held at Benoni High School and hanging out with Denis' numerous relatives, I've had a couple of beers but luckilly Rynfield is pretty much trafficless and I should be fully out of my buzz by the time I head home since I am going to see Superman Returns at 7:45 before heading home (right now – I am going to have some supper).The price for tonights movie: R15 – and half price on tuesdays compare that to an average R50 per person for a movie+popcorn in Jozi.My new appartment is a major step up from the last one – the bathroom alone is huge – two basins, a bath AND a shower, and even a wall-heater so if you have a hot shower on a cold winters morning the air you step out into won't freeze-dry your skin.As ever I live life one day at a time, and as I begin to explore my new surroundings I take much the same approach. Ironically I think I know more people here than I did in five years in Randburg. In fact yesterday, as I was moving out I had, for the first time in five years, a conversation longer than 'hello' with the neighbours from accross the road – whereass here I by now know not just Denis but a fairly significant section of his extended family Not much else to say really, new town will take a bit more time to get under the brim off, in the meantime I treat the change like I treat everything in life – one big adventure. Of course I should add, I had been meaning to move out of my place in Randburg since about 1 week after I moved in, amazing how it took me five years…
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