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19 May 202313 May 2025 Janette Bennett

Let’s talk about Chat

Artificial intelligence, Reinvention, Technology, Writing
Let’s talk about Chat

The world changed while I was not looking. In a flash, artificial intelligence (AI) was melded to real life. Of course, there was warning, but

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24 June 202120 January 2023 Janette Bennett

The convenient face of corruption

Eastern Cape, People, Technology
The convenient face of corruption

When facts don’t get in the way of a story If you blinked in the past few weeks, you might have missed the complete clearing

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12 December 201920 January 2023 Janette Bennett

A few of my favourite things

Environment, Sustainable living, Technology, Work-life
A few of my favourite things

My most favourite things right now are a small inverter, two water tanks and a sense of humour. It’s been hard to keep the latter

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5 December 20196 December 2019 Janette Bennett

I’m planting trees. Are you?

Environment, Technology, Trees, Work-life
I’m planting trees. Are you?

Every single time I do an Internet search, I am planting trees. Yes, you read that correctly. And you might have noticed that I did

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2 August 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Let there be light (and TV)

Technology, Work-life
Let there be light (and TV)

Wrapped up in a fluffy blue blanket, I am shivering behind the wheel of my stationary car. It’s night time, somewhere in the middle of

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4 June 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

Power to you

Life, Reinvention, Technology, Work-life
Power to you

When my children were very little people, they asked me if I’d been “alive when the dinosaurs were alive”. When I stopped laughing long enough

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5 May 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Autumn in the global village

Garden, Technology, Writing
Autumn in the global village

Today, we all live in the “global village” that Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan first spoke about in the ’60s. That’s why people like me can

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28 March 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

Inside the storm

Technology, Weather, Wild things
Inside the storm

Living here, on the south-eastern edge of South Africa, we experience some really wild weather. I once watched a black thing ooze over the sea

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