Awesome Quirk showreel and a little family mention
Quirk published an awesome showreel video a couple days ago and we watched it for the first time today. Its an inspiring and really well produced video: I got a...
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Missing Link sent me a Broken Bum care package, thank you @presorockgods
You may have read that I injured myself last week. It turned out that the “bruise” was a little more severe than I thought. The thoughtful folks ove...
Europcar stars
I had a bad experience with Europcar about 2 years ago when I flew to Cape Town and found I couldn’t hire a car I booked through kulula. The main issue wa...
Ster Kinekor versus the Twitterati
The new Ster Kinekor website is an old story already and a lot has been written about its pros and cons. I got back into the story yesterday when someone behind...
3 different video chat services, 3 interesting approaches
I was just watching the recent Facebook video calling announcement and the ad for video calling is at the end of the announcement video. It struck me as a littl...
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 sh...
Social networks: Twitter versus Facebook
I’ve been thinking about Twitter as a social network a little the last few days. I don’t really see it as a coherent social network and certainly no...
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 ...