Archive for November, 2018

Khanya Blog

• Blogiversary: Khanya blog is 12 years old 13 February 2019
  Twelve years ago I started Khanya blog. Here are some stats: Best ever post 12,094 views All time 678,905 views 5,034 comments   Over those twelve years, these have been the most popular posts: Title Views Home page / Archives 96,971 What is Google installer, and why is it trying to access the Internet? 42,782 […]
• Climate change, dystopia, history and politics 7 February 2019
  Our Neoinklings Literary Coffee Klatsch today was mainly about the kind of dystopia likely to be brought about by climate change, and we discussed some dystopian fiction that followed such themes, and also history, mainly European, and some of the problems brought about by changing borders, with consequent demands for changing loyalties. But first, David […] […]
• Social media, generations and me 2 February 2019
  Yesterday I heard someone speak on social media, and a lot of it passed me by, and were completely remote from my experience. The main things I took away from it were: A Millennial is someone who knows what a Millennial is Millennials use social media almost exclusively for entertainment Millennials think they are cool […]
• Logres, Azania, Wakanda and the Inklings 26 January 2019
  King Arthur And His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green My rating: 5 of 5 stars Roger Lancelyn Green was one of the lesser-known members of the Oxford Inklings, the literary circle of whom J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and perhaps Owen Barfield are the best known. Many of them seemed […]
• The Stranger Diaries (review) 21 January 2019
  The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths My rating: 5 of 5 stars A rather good whodunit wrapped in a ghost story. One of the problems with reading a good book immediately after reading a bad one is that one is likely to see the good one as better and the bad one as worse than […]