After nearly 6 years of absorbing the hustle, bustle, and electric vibe that is Joburg, it’s now official, I’m heading back to my home town - Cape Town.
At the end of July I am going to be leaving BMW South Africa, one of the best places that a digital marketer can wish to work at, [...]

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Saw these busses driving toward Johannesburg from Durban. The right doors are raised which I presume is for the platforms at various Gautrain stations. There are the normal “lower” doors on the left hand side.
Excuse the photo quality, shooting through a window isn’t ideal!
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Bread made at a recent camping trip of ours. Right out of the potjie pot!

I’ve been tagged by Quirk. This time, it’s for something that’s actually got a point, AND a good cause attached to it.
It’s all about bread. Baking a loaf of bread. “The Worldwide Blogger Bake Off“.
From Quirk’s blog:
The Worldwide Blogger Bake [...]

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Springleap, a locally based, recently launched site focussed on the design and selling of t-shirts, is running a competition where contestants have been challenged to get themselves to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) on a search for “Springleap“.
Not a bad idea from a springleap side of things. I do have an [...]

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Saw this from a friend’s note posted on facebook. Taken from the modern classic, Napoleon Dynamite..
An exchange between Don, the high school bully, and Napoleon.
Don: Hey Napoleon, did you wet the bed last night?
Napoleon Dynamite: Hey Don, did you take a dump in your bed last night?
Don: I could kick your butt Napoleon so I’d [...]

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Just got this spammy jargonated goodness from KAE.

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KAE believes that identifying where your organisation sits in the corporate growth cycle - and whether a period of future growth or consolidation is on the cards - offers a useful means of prioritising your core marketing insight activity and spend.
In our latest thinking, we have mapped [...]

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What do you do on the day when you and your colleagues are all to be laid off? Make a music video of course!
(Password is “aollover“)
L’amour a la francaise from pyc on Vimeo.
Reader synopsis: “AOL office in Paris. starts with “to a lost love”. people show their affection for AOL. but in the end, it [...]

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Woops!

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How’s this for a more direct (and forward) type of scam mail?
Dear Friend
Please make a hotel reservation for me and tell me the nearest airport to you and await for my arrival.This is a transaction of $11m (eleven million USD) from a genuine source and duly certified.It is my inheritance with full legal right.
I [...]

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Being the festive season, where one can consume lots of glorious beer, I thought i’d do a quick check on the nutritional info of the major players getting us all a little tipsy this december..
I’ve really only been able to find the Alcohol and Carbohydrates data on the brewer sites:
Brand / % alcohol / kJ/100ml
Castle [...]

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