Mark's Digital Farm

Well they say imiation is the most sincere form of flattery, but when someone quite blantantly steals not only your design, but your idea it can be a little more insulting. Regator, a new blog aggregator, has recieved quite some media attention today with articles in Read Write Web, Techcrunch and on Mashable. None of the articles posted seem to mention its uncanny resemblance to our Afrigator.com. Perhaps because ....

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On Saturday we braved the masses of face-painted, flag waving, brandy and coke drinking South Africans living in London and congregated at Hyde Park for Nelson’s 90th Birthday Bash. The party was not only packed with 46 664 screaming Mandela fans, but a star-studded cast of performers and supporters. Live music was provided by the Soweto Gospel Choir, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Razorlight, Queen & Paul Rodgers, Annie ....

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If you are on a Mac do yourself a favour - copy the below text, paste it in your “Terminal” window and hit enter. If you don’t know where to find Terminal, search for it in spotlight. It’s a useful thing for geeks writing code and stuff. osascript -e 'say "oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard ....

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Last weekend I finally got around to watching “Into the wild” and now i’m blogging about it, even though the movie was released in 2007 and has been reviewed plenty of times. Into the wild recounts the life of Christopher McCandless, an actual student-athlete at Emory University, as told by his sympathetic sister. In response to a materialistic, manipulative, and domineering father, McCandless destroys all of his credit ....

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Last week I went to see the awesome Zimbo band Mann Friday perform at the famous Halfmoon in Putney. (Halfmoon has hosted live music full time since 1963, with occassional performances dating back as far as the 1920s. From The Rolling Stones to Kasabian, Kate Bush to Natasha Bedingfield the venue is steeped in music heritage.) I can’t tell you much about Mann Friday because I couldn’t find much ....

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One of the more fun projects I have completed in the past couple months was a Zoopy profile page for South Africa’s much loved comedian Evita Bezuidenhout. Zoopy is South Africa’s first and foremost video and photo sharing social network. I’ve always been a fan of their neat and usable design so when Jason, at Zoopy’s headquarters, asked me to take on one of their projects I jumped at ....

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One of the reasons, amongst the many, I have been so quiet the last few weeks has been one of the projects I have been working on for Hillsong London. Hillsong is the church I belong to in London. It’s services take place at the world reknown Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road. The Dominion Theatre is also home to the show “We Will Rock You”. Going to a ....

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