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Pascal Parent on November 28th, 2011

I have never written a review for a car, simply because I fondly believe that one needs to use any item for more then 10 minutes to review it objectively. It’s been over a 1500 kilometres and a few hours. It’s been driven on open roads and bumper to bumper traffic alike. And, more importantly, I use it everyday.

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Pascal Parent on November 13th, 2011

The past few months have been rather interesting, I moved to a new job as a senior developer in the Media 24 group and found life rather odd, I was on the same project a few years ago and he I am back, though not with the same company. So far so good, good people [...]

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Pascal Parent on August 28th, 2011

I have not traveled, outside of my work, in a while now. Even less travel involving, well truth be told, no accommodation booking. We did not book because we will follow the flowers, we hope. Merely, we are off to the fabled flowers of the Namaqualand with a short stop in Cape Town. We decided [...]

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Pascal Parent on June 29th, 2011

Studio photography is a challenge for me at the best of times, mostly because in a studio, I have total control of everything and that bugs me. Maybe, it’s the fear associated with having full control and that means that if it goes wrong you can only blame yourself. Enters Richard Ashburner, my guest blogger [...]

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Pascal Parent on June 27th, 2011

From guest writer and magician: Richard Ashburner  I love Magic. I always have. I’m not talking about spells but illusions and sleight of hand. I find that these days when a Magician performs it becomes about how he did it and not about the performance art itself. In today’s modern society very few people believe [...]

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Pascal Parent on June 27th, 2011

In my last post I chatted about the uses I found for my iPad, some expected some not, however there is conditions attached, you need the software to be able to carry out these activities. Some of the required software comes preinstalled on the iPad and are part of iOS the rest will have to [...]

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