Banned from Google and back on in 2 days

I have had a roller coaster ride experience with Google. Spanning from utter reverence to complete disdain, to fear, concern, joy, revolution and many more experiences that all have left me with an impression of Google here or there. My most recent experience of Google was a two day

Media have to pay to cover Zapiro’s book launch

I absolutely love Zapiro’s work. I think the man is a genius and one of South Africa’s great heroes. With that said, I think he has made a shocking error with his book launch. It is not clear whether Zapiro is calling the shots or whether his PR agency

Rap on the knuckles from Facebook

Anyone ever received one of these? Think at the point of receiving the error I was posting a link to WhyVOTE? to a group. Oh well.

Holiday shopping - What I’m going to do

I am going to buy all my holiday gifts online. I will only shop from local online stores/products. I will keep the price per gift under R120. Those are my holiday shopping assurances.

We Blog the World - A South African Bloggers Tour

I am really chuffed to be a part of a fantastic (and very smart) initiative by the International Marketing Council (IMC). The basic idea, as I like to understand it, is that 11 international bloggers who are all prominent in their respective fields will all be heading for SA

Will.I.Am’s Obama victory song

I have registered to vote. Have you?

Today I went to my nearest IEC registration station and changed my registration details from Grahamstown to Johannesburg. The process was simple, the queues were managed well, the forms were readily available, everything worked perfectly. I was chatting to someone yesterday who made a really valid point, this

Life is a strange and worthy adversary

Don’t ever say never. When I was 18 I openly stated that I would never live in the area that I grew up in (lived there for over 20 years with my family). I also swore that I would never drive the same road to work that I had

Vote

The big day is almost here for the USA. So….vote.

What happened to Hollywood accents?

This trailer is about Germans, in Germany, an uprising of ZeGermanz. So can someone please tell my why Tom Cruise has an Americanese accent? C’mon Charlize Theron dropped her Saffa accent for you Americans, now can you please play fair and even attempt an accent in a movie? Or