A particular coach and motivational speaker has a nasty habit of not just criticising the work of others, but bullying them and denigrating their characters. I, for one, have had enough of this unctuous fellow. The word “Pecksniffian” alone may make last week’s ITWeb column an entertaining read.

There was a bit of an outcry over a lawsuit brought by Gold Reef City against the television show Carte Blanche. It is certainly a large suit, amounting to some R47 million, but contrary to some views, this is not a threat to freedom of the press. On the contrary. If people did not have legal recourse against the media, the ANC would be justified in calling for a Media Appeals Tribunal. Read on, at The Daily Maverick.

Neuroses about food additives are far more likely to kill us than the scary-sounding chemicals themselves. Here’s a Daily Maverick column from last week (somewhat lighter and less controversial than its predecessor) in praise of MSG: That finger-licking, lip-smacking taste.

My patience with the Iranian regime reached breaking point this week. Needless to say my response, Bomb the barbaric lot already, attracted a fair amount of strident discussion.

Mobile money has never really taken off in South Africa, despite several attempts at it. There are reasons aplenty for this, so the quesiton now is whether the latest entrant to the market, Vodacom M-Pesa, be the breakthrough? I’m hopeful, but sceptical. Will M-Pesa also fail?

Government is forging ahead with a series of raids on defenceless consumers, with a green tax on everything that moves. Needless to say, I’m opposed, on a whole host of grounds: Green tax: another raid is coming