I joined the madness at Computicket on Friday evening to wait in queue for a chance to get my hands on some Robbie Williams tickets on Saturday morning. Fortunately luck was with me and I was not one of the many disappointed fans who missed out on tickets when they sold out at about midday. [...]

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I spent Sunday in the sun on the grandstand at the inaugural Grand Prix Masters race which was held at Kyalami.

What a show it was! Upon arrival, the exotic cars were already screaming around the track, laying down some rubber in anticipation of more excitement to come.
Shortly after that we decided to go on [...]

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I spent Sunday in the sun on the grandstand at the inaugural Grand Prix Masters race which was held at Kyalami International(yeah, whatever) Raceway. They don’t even have a webpage to link to.
So let me get the bitching over first:
1) Kyalami is a great track, surrounded by crappy facilities.
There are no bathrooms anywhere to be [...]

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I’ve been privileged this week to be able to test a new search engine to be launched for South Africa soon. (Ok, actually I bitched about how it was indexing my blog like crazy and then Alistair Carruthers from Jonga contacted me about a tweak they made to correct the issue and offered me [...]

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Bitch bitch bitch.
How can one be expected to be an effective support engineer, when the only access one has to customer systems is via email and phone. Software is far too complicated to be able to provide effective support in an offline manner, especially with foreign language customers.
But hey, the model works in the States [...]

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Friday Night’s LG Xtreme Concert turned into a really worthwhile event. For a mere R80 entrance fee we were entertained by Fokofpolisiekar, The Narrow and The Violent Femmes.
Being the first time I’d seen Fokofpolisiekar perform live, I was not sure what to expect, but any and all expectations were met and blown away. This is [...]

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So Standard Chartered Bank, in their infinite greed, er, wisdom, have decided to sell off online bank 20Twenty.
If they do manage to sell the service to another bank, it will be 20Twenty’s third owner in 4 years. And yet 20Twenty customers are still as fierce supporters of their bank and its low costs and impeccable [...]

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