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On the web

The Friday Picture: Duct Tape

The Friday Picture will provide you with inspirational and (de)motiviational guidance to make the approaching weekend so much more appealing:

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Life in RSA

Waterford Land Rover: How to get shafted!

I ain’t no wrench-jockey or grease-monkey and my knowledge of cars does not exceed the recognition that E stands for empty on the fuel-tank. The closest mechanical expertise I have is changing a tyre, but over the last 8 years...

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Life in RSA

MTN in trouble due to “lottery scheme” stops celebrating

It has been very clear in my previous post “MTN under fire“, that their “customer-extortion-competition” (also lovingly called “Celebrate 15 years of MTN”) will face a sudden death once the lottery board gets wind of it. Unlike Vodacom’s “100 car’s...

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Background / On the web

I found the Disco Stick

Lady Gaga wants to ride one of those in her latest song “Love Games” (“… this beat is sick, I want to take a ride on a disco-stick…”). Intrigued by what a disco-stick is (as no-one in my social circles...

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On the web

The Friday Picture: Temptation

The Friday Picture will provide you with inspirational and (de)motiviational guidance to make the approaching weekend so much more appealing:

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Consumerism / PS3

Credit card fraud: Shopto?

It certainly makes you wonder (and worry) that within one week at least 3 members at the PS3ZA forum faced credit-card fraud (here, here and here). Allegedly all users have been using ShopTo.net and I am aware of users who...