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How to lose a customer

October 10th, 2008

The other day I went to a certain computer store in Somerset Mall where I planned to buy a iMac computer. As I marched into the store I was swarmed with sales men trying to convince me to buy the iMac. The thing is I had already decide to buy the iMac but I listened [...]

 
The government has for the first time admitted that its a total failure. Not only are the high paid political losers not doing their jobs, they are utterly failing, not only them but the entire country.
Well we’ve been trying to tell them that.
Deputy Minister of Justice, Johnny de Lange told the parliament on Tuesday that [...]

Before going to the olympics George Bush condemned Beijing’s human rights record, forgetting about his torture policies in Iraq. Yes, he may torture people while messing in the business of the rest of the world.
China said:
“We resolutely oppose any words or actions which interfere in the internal affairs of another country in the name of [...]

I really dont care what happens in America but this guy is funny.

Imagine you have no readers. Or you get banned by google, your site crashes and you have to start from scratch. Yes that will suck and it will also remind you to make regular backups.
Now imagine something smaller like posting to many off topic posts or not using images in your post. Big deal right?
Well [...]

Make money
one of the more obvious reasons is to make money, you can start a business, a blog or whatever interests you, you can later change it to suit you better.
Showcase you cv
You can have a website to showcase your cv, instead of sending people your cv in only text, send it to them as [...]

I just deleted 7000 emails

March 11th, 2008

Its weird how you can sometimes get so attached to digital stuff. I do, I dont know about you but I just deleted 7000 emails and deleted everything in my Facebook account including messages etc. Now I am about to delete everything I can that I have ever done online except this blog.
Just think of [...]



This is brilliant this guy is suing the government because he was shot and believes someone should be held responsible. Here is the original article : http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2275833,00.html
I support this because our police force is a joke they have to many responsibilities and do not train their personnel correctly.

Why destroy our history

February 22nd, 2008

I can remember as a child that we were taught of the Boer war and always saw it as a great tragedy for South Africa because I believe that is were it started. We were a country with great promise full to the brim of potential and minerals now. If you think of America when [...]

Government or rather the ANC government is planning to legalize corruption as soon as the removal of the scorpions. The ANC would like to remove the scorpions to succeed in their bid to get corruption legal and have a free for all criminals country.
Here are some links about the scorpions - News Links
Scorpions’ fate [...]

Mbeki trying to save scorpions

February 10th, 2008

This is the first time I’m proud of our president. While his party wants to get rid of the scorpions he has stood up, even though this would make him very unpopular, for them. He believes that South Africa needs the scorpions and I agree. At the moment they and the media are the only [...]

Media under threat

February 4th, 2008

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2262993,00.html
Here is just one example of how the media is under attack in South Africa. First the health minister sues the media now its Zuma’s turn. The media is the way the people can stand up against the wrongs of our countries governing party because even there are apposing parties none of them have enough [...]

Being an South African

February 3rd, 2008

We live in an age were the future is unsure for us. As an white South African there is many more concerns and fears. I saw what happened in Zimbabwe the country where my mother was born. We once had family there but I never had the opportunity to see for myself and my mother [...]

-Their foot shall slide in due time- Deut. xxxii. 35
In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding [...]

Seeing adii from adii.co.za in a fight with small potato from wpdesigner.com it got me excited about the politics of wordpress theme designing. So during the next few weeks I have decided to learn how to make wordpress themes. I am no coder but I can design so following some tips online I will be [...]

So having 20 blogs pays off

November 30th, 2007

I figured that I would go back to 20 or 30 blogs since the money increases dramatically with every new blog I have. Having more than one blog splits up your content and clogs the internet with information that belongs to you. That’s obvious. But having more than one blog gives you more traffic. You [...]

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