Tag Archives: Telegram

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis leads by example, gets his hands dirty to keep beautiful Cape Town clean, including Camps Bay!

 

On Saturday 14 May Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis attended our Community Litter Clean at Maidens Cove in Camps Bay, his presence attracting 77 adults and children, with 145 bags filled and taken for recycling by I know a Guy Recycling!

I organise a Community Litter Clean in Camps Bay once a month, usually focusing on the Camps Bay Beach area, meeting opposite The 41 Restaurant, which sponsors a beverage for each participant, and a prize of two The 41 burgers for the person collecting the most litter. Continue reading →

Corona Virus: My Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 20 of Level 3 Adjusted, 16 January 2021

 

Saturday 16 January 2021, Day 20 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 297 of Lockdown đŸ˜·

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a beautiful day after rain overnight, warming up to 23C; for a fragmented sleep of three parts, not enough in total; for a very very long Telegram call of advice with a local, helping me with an issue I’ve been dealing with this week, the quality of the call being excellent, with no reconnections like on What’s App, my first one; for a walk up to Clifton 4th Beach, scoring 200 Discovery points; for a one hour Skype Committee session with my Canadian tour operator, so grateful to be part of this, and seeing a training video they have created for new tourist guides, in which I also feature; for a pop in at my client; for the Loadshedding scheduled for 14h00 not happening, as it would have affected the Skype call; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Johrney Journal, Day 14 of Level 3, 11 January 2021.

 

Monday 11 January 2021, Day 14 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 292 of Lockdown đŸ˜·

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Gratitude for another beautiful sunny day, the wind picking up this afternoon but not too badly; for an industrious working morning and afternoon; for the luck of having adopted a Kitten, which I’ll fetch later this week, thanks to Johnny Nortje for sending me a link to the adoption agency đŸ˜»đŸ˜»đŸ˜»; for an energetic Camps Bay cardio walk uphill, including the dreaded Houghton Steps, worth it for the 300 point reward; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

What’s App, Telegram, and Signal: what is it all about? Much ado about nothing!

 

All of a sudden, the talking point aside from the Corona Virus, is the degree of privacy which more than 2 billion What’s App users have, given that the Communication App belongs to Facebook. A Facebook Terms & Conditions update due for February will apply to What’s App too. Scores of persons are running off to newer and similar platforms Telegram and Signal, the latter said to be the most secure of the three and is recommended by Elon Musk.

Not understanding what the huge furore is about, I Googled to find information about the three platforms.  Few local publications have written about the topic, so I selected a detailed explanation I found on India Today: ‘What’sApp vs Signal vs Telegram: Which is more Secure’. Continue reading →