I'm sure Americans will be searching for another planet since they are not willing to put in the slightest effort to save the environment or help reduce climate change. They did not ratifying the Kyoto Protocoll and now they start the COP17 meeting in South Africa with "we're not doing anything unless China and other countries does something as well".

China has around 4 times the population of America. How can America say anything before China exceeds their emissions by 4 times. I was hoping America would pitch up and bring some leadership with them, for instance "we understand the problem and we will start by bringing down our emissions by 10% in the next five years, no matter what the rest of the world does", but instead all we get is selfishness. I am tired of America and glad that their relative wealth to the rest of the world is falling as this is getting old.

If I was a spy, I would set the spying device on the router I've created to activate after a number of hours has passed. Say after it has been switched on for at least 2 months and continuously for a week. Catch me if you can!

I am more concerned about the information they have about me that I did not give me. A friend of mine recently registered a new user and the first thing Facebook asks is if she knew these people. A list of friends and family of her. How did Facebook get this information?

Technology in South Africa is being developed at a rapid pace as their bid for SKA is gaining ground. With the completion of the first 7 antennas on the KAT-7 project, the first use of composite materials for dish reflectors. With Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya and Ghana partnering with South Africa in the bid, Africa seems to have overcome all the major obstacles associated with the project. Nokia is willing to supply the 15 petabyte per second infrastructure and EMSS Antennas have already built the first seven cryogenic low noise amplifiers. 64 dishes for the MeerKAT project has just been approved and after completion it will be one of the largest, most sensitive radio telescopes in the world."
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And in this way you keep African farmers unable to compete in a fair market which in turns prevent them from utilizing their farm land. So you have overseas companies extracting oil from Africa, subsidizing farmers in their home countries, bribing African officials to prevent them from nationalizing their resources and the poor remain poor.

I am concerned with the amount of engineers America churns out. Isn't engineers and scientist at the basis of innovation? You can't really create that hovering car or see-through airplane without them. Perhaps it is easier to outsource the engineering functions to countries where they are paid less. On the other hand, what is it people are looking for more and more? When I arrive home I want to check out an awesome TV program. We've got the TV-thing figured out - just import it from China - but good shows are still in high demand. As an engineer in South Africa, I must agree with the chap in an above comment that we are doing quite well, but perhaps it is because South Africa has difficulty finding many people with the required maths abilities.

My skype just keeps on crashing and my colleague working on Linux experiences the same problem. I've checked with five other colleagues and their skype is working fine, so the problem is clearly intermittend

Everyday I travel by car, I feel this frustration that the car still needs me. Having to stop at traffic lights as the cars aren't synchronized and worrying that I might be distracted when the car in front of me brakes suddenly are only two of my gripes with driving the car myself.