GETWINE delivers

31 May

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No, Jonathan, it wasn't three or four hours.  It was actually less than an hour and a half from when I ordered a case of wine from GETWINE, and had it delivered in my office.

Groot Constantia

30 Dec

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One of the great things about living where I do, is that there are wine farms less than two kilometres away, including Groot Constantia, the oldest wine farm in the country. On late Tuesday afternoon we headed off to have a picnic there.

Grad 2004

05 Apr

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Have now graduated and have a piece of paper and a few photos to show for it. Executive summary: Uneventful drives, saw friends in Grahamstown, graduated, partied.

Wine tasting

14 Mar

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Down for the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, Barry and Yoland invited Jeremy and I to the Blaauklippen wine farm for a tasting, along with Pieter. The BVS Merlot 2001 was the best of the lot in my opinion. Unsatisfied, we headed to Avontuur, where I picked up two Cabernet Franc 2000s (my favourite from the tasting) and Barry picked up a case of their Vintners Red and some others.

Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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