Archive for: October, 2008

The Internet Buzz Election – Britney pips Obama? Not quite….

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Every time you turn the television on these days you get more talking heads crunching numbers about the US Elections – whispering urgently about who is going to win which states and why. I’m feeling a little left out, so I thought I would do my own analysis. In the internet age buzz is everything. [...]

The thing with cables….the cable thing

What is it with cables? Put them together, neatly rolled, in a box and, before you know it, they have unravelled themselves, snuggled up to each other and intertwined like fat, horny earthworms. All lovey-dovey like. I have such a box of copulating cables. Long ones, short ones. Every kind of one. It seems that [...]

Nhlanhla Nene's chair fails….and then his sense of humour follows

Today’s Argus reported that Nhlanhla Nene, parliament’s Finance Committee Chairperson who is now famous the world over for his chair collapsing on live TV (see my blog entry below if you’re the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen it) has had a massive sense of humour failure. He’s taking legal advice on how [...]

Festival TV ad

In case you were hiding under a rock earlier this year – or you have PVR – here’s the 2008 National Arts Festival TV ad. We were quietly pleased with it. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-ahx57bWs

SABC News – the collapsing chair

By now I think everyone has seen this, but it is worth re-playing (mostly because I want to test embedding YouTube clips into posts on my shiny new Blog….) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7nElMp-aYA

Sosaties and roosters: dipping a big toe into Potch

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It is either slightly disconcerting or enormously flattering when you arrive at a hotel for the first time and the receptionist greets you by name. In the case of my arrival at the Rapid Waters Hotel (and I use all three of those words advisedly) 29km outside of Potchefstroom, it could only be the former. [...]

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