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I've got a new Blog

So, after using this blog for the last while, I've upped and moved to a new one at lesterhein.com running on WordPress.Please visit me and have a look aroud :)

Dear Western Cape Traffic Department

Today I went to renew a vehicle registration. This is a fairly simple jobbie: I come in with the little piece of paper you sent me in the post, I give you my little bits of paper with numbers and in return, you give me a brand new piece of

My second favourite song of all time

My second favourite song of all time

A couple of things to think about when sending email

With all the focus lately falling on social networks and social media, it feels a bit like email is getting a rough deal. Make no mistake, email is still alive, well and very important as a communication, branding and sales tool. So with this in mind I jotted down a

4 things I started doing that helped my productivity

1. Wake Up EarlyI'm a big fan of working late at night. I'm nocturnal by nature so this usually suits me fine. The problem here is that no one else is awake at the time, so all of answers/input/feedback that I need to get from other people needs to wait

Thinking about Genres

A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music - WikipediaA while back, I set out to try and classify all the music I have in my library. Mostly, this was in order to try

Heineken Walk in Fridge, part 2

Every guy has 'his beer.' Mine's Heineken, It's delicious when it's cold, comes in a green bottle and ha my name in the title. What's not to love? Anyway, after making us all laugh with their first walk in fridge ad, Heineken have now released a sequel, and it's pretty

Learn the South African national anthem

So after the entire internet going crazy about the debacle surrounding the way that Ras Dumisani sang the South African national anthem at the Sa vs France rugby match last week, I thought it might be useful for anyone else thinking of singing the national anthem to actually know the

Danger-Ras

So, after my previous post about the South African anthem being sung at the SA versus France game, Ras Dumisani has generated his own meme. The internet, radio and even TV is buzzing with talk about the botched SA anthem.There's a phrase saying that there's no such thing as bad