Interesting quote by Fred Wilson, discussing the relatively small difference in visitors between facebook and wordpress over the past year, and the extremely large difference in their financing amounts: But trust me on this one. The blogging revolution is the adult social network whereas Facebook style social networking is for teens and college kids. This [...]

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Motor Finance Corporation helped themselves to an extra R3k at the end of last month. Now I have to fight to get it back… What the hell is wrong with these people? How does our banking system allow this? Where are the checks and procedures?

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When Jacob Zuma starts sounding like the voice of reason in the whole Zimbabwe election-stealing saga, you know you’re in trouble.

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Yes, don’t be surprised, this is still Shaun Dewberry’s Weblog. You’re at the right place! I conducted a quick and relatively painless upgrade from b2evolution 0.9.0.1 directly to Wordpress 2.5 using the instructions located here.
As time goes by I’ll get cracking on adding all those little extras you’re used to seeing on this page. [...]

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Home Affairs had a queue a mile long this morning. Perhaps tomorrow morning I’ll be able to collect my passport. Not in the mood to queue since Friday.

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Sorry folks, no apologies for that headline. On Friday 4 April at around noon, some criminal fuckheads loaded my bike into a van or a truck and drove off with it. This occurred inside the “secure” complex where our offices are in Centurion. I happened to look out the window at 2pm and my bike [...]

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Eric from springleap has generously offered to give away a few t-shirts to the loyal fans of Vernon Koekemoer. This is such a great example of how startups need to be piggybacking off one another to bootstrap themselves forward. Thanks Eric.
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Arthur Goldstuck believes his numbers show that the time for “serious blogging” has arrived. I beg to differ. It ain’t here yet.

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