Paul Jacobson

Category: Mindsets

  • Why TechCentral's Google+ review is the worst I've read

    Craig Wilson has written the worst Google+ review I have read so far. This isn’t because the review is critical of Google+ or questions whether it has what it takes to compete with Facebook and Twitter, but because the review is factually inaccurate in some respects, misleading in others and reads a little like Wilson…

  • Standard Bank employee: Listen to me!

    I popped into Standard Bank’s Norwood Mall branch to reset a card’s PIN and was standing behind a clearly anxious woman in the queue. I overheard she needed help with a Marketlink account and was told to wait in the Enquiries queue for help. There were two people in Enquiries helping customers ahead of her…

  • About that whole "@picknpay sucks" thing

    My wife, Gina, told me about a post Laura-Kim Allmayer posted recently in which she had a good experience with Pick ‘n Pay after a pretty nasty one. I am not exactly a Pick ‘n Pay fan and, to paraphrase Worf in Star Trek Insurrection, I definitely feel “aggressive tendencies” when I shop at our…

  • How to cultivate lifelong fans

    This is fantastic: A fan shouted up to Paul Simon that she learned to play the guitar using this song. “Come on up here and play it on my guitar,” he told her. This is what happened next: (Source: Roger Ebert’s Journal)

  • A few thoughts about tomorrow's elections

    We have the right to vote, or to choose not to vote. We have the right to choose who to vote for. We have the right to criticize politicians. We have a multi-party political system. We have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution that makes all this possible.

  • ANC SMS spam ahead of elections

    The Democratic Alliance was heavily criticized in the last day or two because of it’s massive SMS election campaign. I didn’t receive the most recent SMS the DA sent out (which makes me wonder about it’s database) but I did receive this gem below from the ANC instead. As you might have guessed, it is…

  • Time for yourself

    Jeanette Verster wrote a post titled “Needing time, needing change” about demands on her time and how she so rarely has an opportunity to take time for herself. I identify so strongly with what she says in her post, particularly this: She asked me when I have time in the day for myself. She asked…

  • When foetal genetic manipulation is useful

    Blue eyes and athletic prowess are great but what would really be useful would be the ability to manipulate the times kids go to sleep and wake up. Imagine being able to set your kids’ wake up time on a Sunday morning for 9am … That would be something!