Paul Jacobson

Tag: Don’t be stupid

  • Rotten core of the Apple

    So there I went, thinking my new Apple gear supplier, C3, is messing me around and making me wait for a month for my Leopard Up To Date disc and it turns out it is their supplier which has been dicking around. I may be wrong here but I believe the local supplier is the…

  • Crazy talk about employers

    I have been having crazy thoughts about employers (in the broad sense considering I am not employed by anyone – I am self-employed) lately. Many of these thoughts are similar to other crazy thoughts I have had about being a customer so maybe there are some parallels here … Wouldn’t it be something if the…

  • Bolton Deventer … Guy McLaren … is there a difference?

    There is a fair amount of chatter in the local blogosphere about a new character on the scene, Bolton Deventer, who apparently has some controversial views about sex and Web marketing. Bolton has caused a considerable ruckus and even Mr Maher has stepped in and posted his thoughts. I got to play in the Guy…

  • The Guy McLaren debacle

    Ok, I know I said I wouldn’t comment on this saga publicly at the risk of being sued but sometimes I have to just get my thoughts out there. I read the posts on Muti about McLaren’s offering to his clients including Nic’s post and the initial post on The Colony. I also watched two…

  • Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go service misses the point

    So Microsoft has announced a pay-as-you-go option for emerging markets, ostensibly to make Office 2007 more affordable to people in these markets. This option is only available to people who buy new computers (now with Windows Vista) and costs R199 for the first three months with first time users to receive an additional 3 months…

  • If you link to me I’ll link to you …

    How many times have you received an email from someone you don’t know asking if you’ll link to his or her blog and in return you’ll get a link back? It happens quite often to me and I am growing increasingly less receptive to these requests (I am shifting from indifferent to moderately hostile) and…

  • New license plates: it’s all true!

    I was wondering what would happen when Gauteng ran out of numbers on the current license plate system and it turns out we just get new license plates … which we have to pay for! The new license plates are supposed to be launched in the next month or so and we will have to…

  • First the work and then nothing …

    I haven’t posted much the last few days and I was going to do some serious blogging yesterday afternoon to make up for it only to discover than some nitwit had cut my line completely (not even a dial tone). I called Telkom who has sent out a message to a technician who will hopefully…