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Web of truths?
With the rise of the Information Age, Fraser Thompson laments how school kids these days have it easy – with search engines at their fingertips making school projects as simple as cut and paste. And the result, he says, is a planet of parrots, squawking reams of meaningless facts and figures copied from the parrot in the cage next door.
Going AWOL
No more dangerous, clumsy glasses and bottles. No more cursing the empty ice-tray. No more of the nasty organic compounds that cause the near-death symptoms associated with the morning after a night on the town. iafrica columnist Fraser Thomson explores a new alternative to booze, the dubiously titled AWOL...
The (re) birth of a Neo-Consumer
My tragic naïveté has resulted in a long history of emotional and financial disappointments. I’ve been screwed over by dodgy businessmen more often than your average Sea Point street-walker, and each time I’ve forgiven, forgotten and gone back for another fleecing. No more, writes iafrica columnist Fraser Thomson, a re-born Neo-Consumerist...
The Good Life?
Most city dwellers of a certain age have dreamt of packing it all in at one time or another, escaping from the rat-race to an idyllic life in the countryside. But country life is not all it's cracked up to be, writes Fraser Thompson, whose had to grapple with weather extremes, rampant wildlife and the fact that nature is so, well, natural...
Rage against the Flying Machines
Air travel is a perfect example of an activity so strange, so horrible and so perverse that commonsense dictates there must be unseen hands at work behind the scenes. What else but a Machiavellian plot could explain the fact that millions of people pay good money to do it, asks Fraser Thomson in the first of his iafrica.com columns, 'Unreliable Source'...
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FRASER THOMPSON
Biography
Fraser Thomson's work has appeared on a number of different web-sites. One day, he feels sure, a kindly Editor will give him pots of money and a ticket to Fiji, but in the meantime he continues to write short stories, travel articles and music reviews. And a new column on iafrica.com: Unreliable Source. Read more of Fraser's writing on www.helpmekaar.com
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FEATURES
A Farewell to Ash
"I'm determined I'm gonna crack it this time," says Highlife guest writer Fraser Thomson on his ongoing attempts to conquer his 40-a-day cigarette habit. Nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, he's trying it all. And to help focus his mind on this mammoth task, he's keeping a journal chronicling the positive and negative aspects of kicking the habit...
A Farewell to Ash (Part Two)
"I sat down and proceeded to finish the entire packet of cigarettes – smoking one after the other in a masochistic miasma of jet-lagged self-disgust before crawling into bed to blot out the awful day." Highlife guest writer Fraser Thomson continues his saga to kick the habit. Will he? Won't he? Read on and find out for yourself...
A Farewell to Ash (Part Three)
"The very good news is that today marks my fifth consecutive completely smoke-free day!", writes Fraser Thomson, Highlife guest writer, from a rig in South East Asia. We've followed his quest to kick the habit over the last two weeks, and this week feature the final episode in his often hilarious, sometimes nail-biting account of bidding a firm farewell to cigarettes.
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