Oh my god the hangover just won’t go away. It’s getting worse. A “regmaaker” beer didn’t even fix it.
A quiet drink. A quiet drink.
It’s never just “a quiet drink”.
Time to curl up with my head in my hands and sob softly beneath my desk.
There’s something real dodgy in the glasses at Monroe’s. Been there twice, [...]

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Ahoy! I be writing me blog ta inform ye squires of this great day of celebration – the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Now smartly me lubbbers, be ye seeing this here web-treasure-map-link buried by them salty sea-dogs?
It be pirating yer speakin proper. Arrrr.
Tags: pirate, talk, scurvydog, tlapd, avast

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Finally someone has gotten their game on in the music download industry in SA. I present to you Rhythm Records, an online music store focusing on South African Music.
Their music downloads are not DRMed – use it as you choose – and use your conscience. The variety is small but growing. So far there is [...]

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Here’s a quote from Bruce Schneier’s Beyond Fear.
“A hacker is someone who thinks outside the box. It’s someone who discards conventional wisdom, and does something else instead. It’s someone who looks at the edge and wonders what’s beyond. It’s someone who sees a set of rules and wonders what happens if you don’t follow them. [...]

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The screen clip above is from here (IE sorta/kinda only). Oh my word! How dare PnP be that pompous?
That’s no apology. Seth Godin would be either laughing or crying at the complete disrespect of the customer and the insane amount of damage to their marketing image that this sort of comment is causing.
Fortunately for Pick ‘n Play, their [...]

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So, grocery retailer Pick ‘n Pay has hopped into the music download business. It’s a place they certainly don’t belong.

And to make matters worse, the first thing I see when I open their page is this popup box telling me I have to change browsers just so that I can get DRM licenses. Wow!
So let [...]

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It looks like more and more marketing is shifting to the virtual realm of Second Life. The latest is a T-Shirt design competition for rock band Seether that will be hosted in a virtual area there.
That in its own is pretty cool. There is one caveat though.
If you’re marketing to members of Second Life, [...]

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I’m continuing my love affair with Youtube Internet Video with my latest discovery:
This page is a list of links to 80s music videos which are available on Youtube.
Click with caution – you may just lose your entire day to the likes of A-HA, Katrina and the Waves and Nena (and you’d better be prepared for big hair and shoulder pads too!!)
It looks like I’m [...]

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If you have the connectivity and you’re not watching the little duckie show, you should be. This is what TV should be like, instead of some faked-out, prerecorded-laughing attached to a string of b-grade actors with a script full of bad sexual innuendo.
Tags: zefrank, theshow, tv, towatch

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Unreal, in a little over 48 hours, tectonic has managed to get pledges to the value of R42500, 85% of the amount required to tell Telkom just how much we hate them.
There’s got to be something wrong with telecoms in SA when this sort of enthusiasm to stick it to the man prevails.
Go Tectonic!!
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