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If Microsoft repackaged the iPod video

Go to YouTube and watch “ Microsoft iPod Packaging Parody ” it’s absolutely brilliant. In a nutshell it shows how Microsoft would repackage the iPod. It highlighted for me how Microsoft’s marketing strategy for their products are technically focused, appealing to an audience that knows what they are looking for. The success of the iPod’s simple packaging is because the product inside does not require the user to know how it works and so there’s no need for technical specs. Did you ever understand...
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Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks your mailbox

Put away your photo edited Hoff pics and make way for the latest internet retro-celebrity glorification. It’s Chuck Norris and he’s roundhouse kicking his way into mailboxes across the world! For those outside the loop (or who don’t receive a lot of mail) there are lists going around of Chuck Norris “facts” describing the most outrageous things about Chuck Norris mainly focusing on his killing ability. Examples include “The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain” and “Chuck Norris counted to infinity...

Monkey Island Movie

Ah, but to wish that this was true; unfortunately it’s just part of a collection of “games to movie” photo manipulated posters from Something Awful . While Gabbahead (thanks for the link btw) thinks the movie would suck (based on the normal mess ups the movie industry makes of books and other stories this would be true), but with a good cast and a crew story writers who’ve actually played and finished the game, I don’t think it could be that bad. I’m still waiting for someone to produce Sierra’s...

South Korea: A step towards a digital lifestyle

So in South Korea the justice system is taking a step towards engaging in people’s digital lifestyle by notifying its citizens of legal notices, fines and penalties via text messages. You can read about it in this news article from IOL . While the thought of receiving any legal notice (because they’re never good news) electronically doesn’t cause me to jump with glee, I am happy to see social services and governments move towards the new medium of engaging with people as it definitely makes everyone...

Forum post makes the news

Wow! I can’t believe how an article can go from forum to email distribution and then to a newspaper; and what’s more, the instigator is none other than an old SA Developer Lead, Stuart Gunter from Durban! Stuart’s post “ The true cost of Telkom ADSL ” on the myASDL forum points out how it’s cheaper to fly to Hong Kong to download 100GB than to use Telkom. But now he’s in the news about it! (You can read the article here from IOL ) I have received 3 emails from my various joke contributors with a...

CANSA Shavathon 2005

Just a quick post for you to see Ruari ’s head being shaved and spray painted for the CANSA 2005 Shavathon yesterday at Sandton City. His wife, Coral, and I also went under the shears and his 2 kids got their hair coloured. Despite the scandal around the use of the money, and the road to hell being paved with good intentions; charity is good karma , a lot of fun and Does benefit its intended recipients. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Be Happy or you're fired!

This is just dumb! Nutzwerk , an IT company in Leipzig, Germany, has implemented a good mood policy as part of their employee’s contracts. It is a fireable offence to be in a bad mood, be grumpy, moan or complain. This draconian enforcement is a scary sign because it probably means they’ve already gone down the route of team building sessions, desk re-arranging, employee-of-the-month awards and team restructuring. And if those “management pleasing” mumbo jumbo methods didn’t work their problems run...

The game development industry and Bollywood

When I talk to some people about my ideas for growing the game development industry they try to drown me in reasons why I won’t succeed. These people will never achieve anything worthwhile in their lives with that defeatist attitude; and while their advice is welcome, their cynicism is ignored. But one comment stuck, and the fact that an evident alternative was available didn’t hit anyone. It was said that the game development industry is like the movie industry; besides needing lots of money to...

"Chopping off a man's fireman is NOT cool!" - Eric Cartman

You know, society can really find some fucked up things to get excited about! The latest in South African parliament is the proposal to ban male circumcision . Now I’m not going to get into the fight about whether we should, shouldn’t or need to have circumcision; nor am I going to go into the “sexual abuse” that these people are claiming that parents inflict on their 8-day old sons which leaves emotional scares all through the child’s life. I don’t even want to...

I'm back, baby!

Yes, it’s been exactly a month since I last posted, and I’m sticking with the excuse that my old job tried to get every last drop of ability out of me before I left. I spent most of my time at customers without internet connectivity. A lot has happened in the last month; from learning “Beer Good, Fire Bad” playing fire poi with my friend Peter (you can see he’s much better at it than me) to Microsoft sponsoring me to run an SA Developer event in PE , which rocked. There...

You too could be a Nazi stoner

I’d like to thank the American DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) for highlighting Drug paraphernalia otherwise I would never have seen this wicked gasmask bong . You’ve got to love “denial of service” organisations that give all the information you need to perform the activity they’re trying to stop on their own website ! Special thanks to Gabberhead for providing the links . Just remember; drugs are bad m’kay! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...

my i-mate is my ipod; till it breaks

Damn and Blast! I’ve managed to break my i-mate JAM ! I managed to drop my phone about a week ago, which killed the telephone speaker on the phone. Now it rings but if I want to hear the person on the other side of the line, I have to use my earphones! This morning, the damn thing just doesn’t want to come on! It’s spent the last hour on the charger (not that it needed it when last I checked) and I don’t even get the charging light to come on! On a more positive note, I got...

Kicked out of Newscafe!

Who gets kicked out of Newscafe? Well… I do for start! They’re opened a new Newscafe just off New Road in Midrand and I thought I would meet a couple of mates there for a pint or 2 before the weekend started proper. As I approach the door a bouncer stops me and says I can’t come in with shorts; strict policy! I’ve been to the Newscafe in Bedfordview, Rivonia & Sandton, and I’ve never seen a bouncer before. Apparently there’s a strict rule of “no shorts”...

Friendly Google errors

I love the errors you get from Google’s GMail . The “Oops” and “Arrghs” seem to lend a sympathy to your plight and keep the whole affair light hearted (it’s only mail after all :P ). I wish I had the nerve to put such comments managing errors created in my applications. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

The Greatest harm in Africa

Not long ago I did a Gonzo comic showing Bob Mugabe kicking everyone out of the country. But this latest scheme of his has my jaw dropping to the fall. According to a report on IOL , it is now illegal to grow crops in urban areas which mean a lot of people in the South of the country who were depending on such subsistence farming, with be severely affected. Forget Sleeping America , Throttled China and The Burning Middle East ; even our own Pestilent Politics can be take a back seat to the horrors...
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