Avoid mzan.si, and a sad pub tale

Late last week, a column of mine was published in which, almost two months after first alerting their implementation agency to the problems, I finally took SA Tourism to task for the badly broken URL shortener it has tried to foist on patriotic South Africans. The mzan.si service has learnt none of the lessons about URL shorteners that litter the internet: Why you shouldn’t use mzan.si is available on ITWeb.

Over at The Daily Maverick, I wrote a sad tale, in which my heart bleeds, a grown man cries, and what do I blame? The destructive power of government, of course.

Thanks for the great comments on my piece from last week, on the bonsai economy. There’s much meat there on which to base a future column about labour laws.