Well, it’s done. My market has now officially been disrupted by Stormhoek through my blog and gapingvoid.
A bottle of Sauvignon Blanc was delivered by Kempen Wine Merchants (who seem to have a good range of wines they trade in).
Here’s the proof: (with my own genuine gapingvoid marketing note imitation)

Ok I didn’t get a number or [...]

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Leery playing at Charelli’s. All right I guess. They didn’t blow me away though. I’d think twice before going to see them again.

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Lovely, they’ve had a Stormhoek bloggers wine freebie in the UK, Ireland, and now France, so where’s the freebie for South African bloggers?
While we may not be the target market, or the largest market, we are a market, and we’re the home market.
I’m a blogger. I’m South African. Disrupt my market dammit!

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Tuesday evening is the night in which we pillage beer in vast quantities and smoke way too much.

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So the wonderful b2evolution blogging engine comes with a ‘mms.php’ file to allow for parsing of MMS messages sent via mobile phone into blog entries.
It was a little tricky to get going, but with the help of the b2evo HowTo I managed to get it going on my Motorola RAZR V3.
The steps taken were as [...]

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Moblogging. Cool! Here we have an MMS post from my MotoRAZR to my weblog (which by this very action is now actually a moblog). I’ll post the details a bit later…

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Google’s latest, a blog searching tool is now Live!
Seems to work pretty well:
It’s at http://blogsearch.google.com/

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Sun this week released their new X86 64bit servers – a set of machines that blast the competition out of the water. Check out the benchmarks for the Sun Fire tm X2100,X4100, and X4200 64 bit X86 servers – they destroy the competition and set a whole bunch of new world records. Awesome stuff.
Bundled with [...]

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Good news is that local domestic airline Kulula.com has taken up the task of campaigning government to introduce daylight savings time.
Excellent. This can only be good for South Africa.
Show your support by signing the petition here.

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Excellent news is that Telkom has dropped their threatened R5 million lawsuit against Hellkom.co.za.
Good. Fuck Telkom.
Obviously once sanity started to prevail and the legal costs started adding up they realised they were going to lose.
More info at ITWeb.

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