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Friday, May 7th, 2010 | Feelings, Opinion, Personal, Rants, Useful | No Comments
A rough calculation using our bank records gave us evidence of how much money we actually have been spending on Vodacom airtime in the last two years.
It was because of this reason we decided to have a Telkom ADSL line installed – this was back in February 2010. So we applied at the Telkom shop in Canal Walk, completed the forms and I gave my ID copy.
Just over a week or so I received this letter from Telkom. Now in this letter you will see that already they apologised for not installing on time. Note that the date they sent it was 23 February 2010 and there is no name of the person that signed that letter. They also got my title and name wrong but thats a minor.
Scanned copy of letter (click to enlarge) -> 
End of April I had to move because I was evicted as the landlord wanted the place for her “grandson” from JHB. I used to live in Walmer Estate at the address in this letter and I requested that this application just be moved to a new address.
I won’t tell you a word of a lie, but Telkom called me on 30 April (the Friday before I had to move) , to say that they were going to install the line in Walmer Estate on Monday 03 May 2010 – the same day the moving van was going to move me… › Continue reading
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | Education, Entertainment, Review, Useful | No Comments
The visitors center at the stadium reopened and tours are once again available to the public. We managed to get a booking for Tuesday 16 March at 2pm.
- there are three holding cells – one for males, one for females and one for juveniles – this is inside the police station that is available at the stadium
- the first female crane operator in South Africa, Zoliswa Gila, helped construct the stadium and is now employed as a tour guide at the stadium; she said she had to climb up 90 meters to get in to her crane every day – imagine she needed to go to the toilet!
- The entire stadium was built in 33 months from 2007 to December 2009 › Continue reading
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | Entertainment, Music Related Links, Useful | 3 Comments
The 16th annual MTN South African Music Awards will be held on Saturday, 17 April 2010.
To qualify for entry for the award, the album must have been released between 29 November 2008 and 27 November 2009.
Nomination entries will open on Monday 2 November 2009 and interested participants will have one month in which to enter before the closing date, being Friday 27 November 2009.
New Award:
“International Achievement Award.
This Special Category award will recognise the South African recording artist who has achieved the most success with the development of their recordings outside of South Africa in the year of the award in question.”
Anxiously anticipating to see who this one goes out to!
The official Rules for the Award ceremony has not yet been uploaded to their website. Be sure to check back.
The show will be broadcasting LIVE from 20:00, on Saturday 17th April 2010… just 166 days to go!
The official MTN SAMA #16 website : http://www.samusicawards.co.za
Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Entertainment, Music Related Links, Personal, Questions, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
Made a new last.FM image chart using the chart builder. The my recently played tracks can be seen in a chart style and updated automatically. The purpose was to have a image chart inserted as html onto the sidebar of this site; instead of a plain rss on as previously. A preview of the image is shown below – Click on the thumbnail for a better view:
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Entertainment, Fun, Opinion, Review, Tips / Learning, Useful, food | No Comments
Nearly two years since I first went to see what the buzz was about at this Caribbean restaurant down the road. I remember driving by that place (that was once a house) and seeing all the renovations being done and wondered what the place would eventually turn out to be.
Was thrilled to hear that it was another restaurant and it had such a cool name: Jamaica me Crazy.
Tonight after probably attending for the fiftieth time, I described the food as Heavenly and simply felt the need to compliment their amazing food and also for always making want to go back there again. Hell I even got a very fussy friend liking the place so much, he decided to have his 30th birthday there!
We all know what Mondays can be like at the office; that’s right, 
Monday, June 8th, 2009 | Opinion, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | 3 Comments
I have been using the AnyFont WordPress plugin for a while now and I think it is by time I raved about it.
At first I was irritated by the amount of updates that became available but these days I can’t wait for the next update, as each time there is a newer, better, more easier add on to the plugin, which makes it all the more fun to use.
The AnyFont plugin is made by a South African guy named Ryan Peel. This plugin makes an image of your text into whatever font you feel like using at the time.
At this stage, you can customise your blog title, description, widget headers, your post titles and recently added, text within your posts that you write. › Continue reading
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | Tips / Learning, Useful | 4 Comments
There are currently four Mobile Network Providers in South Africa namely Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Virgin Mobile. The services offered are alike; so are the service numbers. It can be quite a tedious task trying to remember or finding out which is the correct three digit number to use for whatever mobile service, you wish to use at the time. › Continue reading
Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | Music Related Links, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | 5 Comments
I tend to forget birthdays and depend on a list or some sort of recuring appointment in my Google Calendar, to serve as a reminder. In turn the scheduled event will send an sms reminder to my mobile phone.
I found a way to add birthdays from the Facebook Birthday Calendar application, to your Google Calendar.
Step by step instructions:
(Update* March 2010 :please note there is an update to the process to follow – I explained it in the comments below)
Friday, May 8th, 2009 | Education, Opinion, Questions, Tips / Learning, Useful, thoughts | No Comments
‘Aweh’
pronounced ‘Ah-wear’
This South African word, in real context would mean:
Newsfusion describes it as A Greeting “Aweh my bru” (Hello my friend)also “howzit“, “yooit“, “hoesit“, “yo“.
Urban Dictionary describes the word as A South African slang word used to acknowledge something or greet someone. (Hey guys) , “Oh aweh man!”
The other day, I ordered my meal at this restaurant, the waiter then listened, wrote down what I wanted and “aweh’ed” me. › Continue reading
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Entertainment, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Life Lesson, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
Two great documentary releases, Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, is currently screening at the Labia theatre in Cape Town.
As reviewed by the Labia theatre “…is the mind-blowing documentary by Peter Joseph, and is the most viewed motion picture on the internet …The award-winning movie takes a staggering look at the lies sold to the world via media, politicians, bankers and those standing to benefit.”
“Its follow-up, ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM, focuses on the shocking truth behind the monetary system, and › Continue reading
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