Chris goes by the moniker of 24KaratChris on Twitter. He is also a Karatbars affiliate and he runs a very successful YouTube channel called Grit, Grind, Gold. He is also…
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Zoom – A Security Review Of The Online Meeting App
Zoom is an online meeting app that allows users to collaborate and have online video conferences. In the current remote working enforced due to the global viral pandemic, it has…
South Africa’s Approach to COVID-19
South Africa’s Approach to COVID-19: A Timeline of South Africa’s response to the Coronavirus Pandemic I have been spending my lockdown researching the approaches of different countries to the pandemic,…
How you can use the Pomodoro Technique to hack your attention span
Getting stuff done is not easy. Sometimes life just gets in the way of being productive. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to killing our own…
Scams, MLMs and crypto – in conversation with Jon Walsh
I recently started a podcast and my very first guest was Jon Walsh. John is SVP header of strategy Europe for a digital company called AMX digital that does programmatic…
10 things I’ve Learned By Working From Home
With the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), there is a fundamental shift happening in the world. Technology has made it possible for us to work from almost anywhere unless your…
Not Everything That Glitters Is Gold – The Crash of the Gold-Backed Coin
Gold company Karatbars promised investors a stable, gold-backed cryptocurrency. But the KaratGold Coin (KBC) has lost massive value since December 2019. It seems that not everything that glitters is gold.…
How PayPal Ghosted Me
I’ve been using PayPal since at least 2006 for shopping on eBay. This online buying and auction bidding turned into a serious addiction. By 2010 I was mostly over it…
Fuel loyalty programmes push small retailers out of business
The Fuel Retailers Association (FRA) said this week that the rise of loyalty programmes at fuel stations are pushing independent fuel retailers out of business. In light of this, they…
Facebook glitch exposes Greta Thunberg’s account administrators
Wired reported on Friday, 10 January of a Facebook bug that exposed the identities of anonymous Facebook Page administrators. The glitch, that has since been patched was accessible for at…