Next week I’m moving to Pretoria for the year, and in 2009 I may well end up in Cape Town. My reasons? Well, I need a change and Joburg life is feeling increasingly stale. Although there’s much I love about web development, I don’t love it enough to be doing it as the thing I spend most of my time on. There are other things I find more exciting (like interactive visual art) and this year will give me some space to develop some of that. This move is also a move towards discipline (hopefully I’ll start having normal waking hours like everybody else!) and intentional community - something I’ve wanted to do for a while now.

I’ll be staying at a bed-and-breakfast called Pangani in Pretoria North. The guys who own it are called NieuCommunities - a community of people who orient their common life around making a difference in the world. They take some insights from the monastic way of doing communal life, which I’ve written more about here. I’ll still be doing some web development work and I’ll still be in Joburg fairly often, so let me know if/when you’d like to do coffee. I hope you come and visit too - stay for the weekend if you’d like!