The first 27Dinner in Durban for 2010 will be taking place on 27 February. I am very excited for this year and what it has in store for us. Last year was a fantastic year for 27Dinner itself and for the online community in general. Lots has happened, and changed in the past year and will lead to great topics of conversation. We have Rohland De Charmoy from Clyral who will be discussing what they...

StevenMcD & NoonoosMcD have finally had their baba. Having a brief chat with Steve this morning over Blackberry IM, he says Lana is doing well and that once they’d learnt how to burp the kid properly, things started going perfectly. Please say hello to little Tatum McDonald: Louisa Bouwer also went into squat mode and popped out a gorgeous little girl formerly known as Squishy. I...

For those of you who know, the couple also known individually as StevenMcD and NoonoosMcD, are about to embark on a new journey.  Today, the 18th December 2009, they will become parents to a beautiful bundle of joy named Tatum.  Who will arrive by means of forceps dug into Lana’s abdomen. Welcome MiniMcD! We can’t wait to see pictures of you! As soon as I know anything further, I’ll...

It’s no secret that Jeremy Nell is my favourite cartoonist.  He may be a bit of a mate too, but even so, that is not the reason I secretly have a shrine in his honour.  It’s because like me, he decided he hated corporate and went his own way pursuing his dreams.  Like me, he jumped into a career with no formal training whatsoever.  Like me, he speaks a load of shit for a living.  Or...

So tonight is the 27dinner, one of the hottest events on the Nerd Calendar. The sign-up list always fills up in about 2.5 seconds after opening. Unlike last time, when SheBee and I had to bribe certain people,  with offers of boobie pictures, to give up their seats so we could attend, we managed to sign up on time. Mostly because The Goose sms’d to remind and prod us to do so. This time around...

I was thinking the other day, that EVERY true geek should have certain items in their posession. This we all agree about. But I often see magazines list specific 10 things that you should have, and I always disagree with some of the stuff on the list. So instead of telling you, that if you’re a geek you should have an iPhone and not that nice new BlackBerry (yes Ed, that’s for you), I want...

Jeanette Verster or @Jenty as she is known to those who follow her on Twitter is a very inspirational and in my opinion, talented portrait photographer. Learn a bit more about her and her photography with the first of my monthly photographic interviews. Should you wish to contact Jeanette her details are available at the end of the interview. How long have you been shooting photos for, both socially...

So after the raging success of Guitar Hero, they made a Guitar Hero II, and then a Guitar Hero III, and then a Rock Band, and Guitar Hero Aerosmith, and their latest release is the rocking Guitar Hero Metallica! So all you metal heads out there and now rock in your own living room, invite all your Goth buddies over and have some wicked fun. Check out the site here, and it rocks from a design point...

If you haven’t heard of the 27Dinners then you must be living in outer space.  Or Egypt.  They were started by the legendary Mike Stopforth a couple of years ago and from the time when I was still a baby geek, I always wanted to attend one. It was bad enough having to watch twitter streams live tweeting the events but then speaking to people who’d actually attended drove me off the edge...

I think it was @arthurficial whose first question upon meeting me (for the first time at the Durban 27 Dinner) was “why do you swear so much?”. Good question, Arthur. And I think it was @blindcripple who said, yesterday, that it’s only sexy if a girl swears sometimes. In other words, not all the time. And in even more other words, not all the time like me. While I may not be able...