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I am a huge fan of 27 Dinners and after kicking them off here in Durbs in 2007 they have grown quite considerably in Durbs. Cath & Briget will be orkanising the May event. If you in Durbs, I highly suggest you make a plan to get to La Bella on the 28th May. Here is all the info you need:

27dinner | Durban | May 2010

The 27dinner movement aims to bring together informed, networked individuals with a common passion for technology, media and business in an informal but valuable real world space.

On the 27th day of every month of the year since January 2007, hundreds of interesting people from diverse walks of life have collected under one roof over good food and wine to celebrate a common passion for technology, media and business.

These 27dinners have fast become a staple entry in the calendars of South Africa’s smartest, funkiest and most networked entrepreneurs, business owners, designers, developers, geeks, marketers and even good old corporate jacket-and-tie’s.

The dinners provide these fascinating humans with a unique opportunity to share ideas, debate industry hot topics, meet new contacts and even fire up collaborative endeavours. Slowly but surely companies are realising the value of engaging an audience like this in an authentic conversation (Cluetrain Manifesto-style).

We’d love to meet you – regardless of whether you simply want to come along and participate, share your latest venture with like-minded people or even sponsor the event.

Like all infamous Durban “scenes” though, we’re full of apathy. So, with that in mind, get off your butt, sign up and come along to the next Durban 27Dinner. We’d like to thank all of you for attending the last 27Dinner, in February, and hope all of you will come along for the next one!

Our second 27Dinner in Durban for 2010 will be taking place on 28 May 2010 (we took a little poetic licence there and shifted it to the Friday, as most people find it easier to attend a Friday night event!).

For May, we’ve decided to showcase some brilliant Durban women, who are:

Lungile Zondi from http://www.myshuttles.com/ who will be discussing her awesome initiative that’s going to make travelling in South Africa a breeze, especially during the FIFA World Cup 2010!

Briget Ferguson of http://www.myr260car.co.za/ and winner of this year’s Nerdies, will be talking about her brave and quirky approach to a social media campaign

Questions? Cath on [email protected] or call 0820600071 or Briget on [email protected] or call 0823379441

Date: 28 May 2010

Venue: La Bella Cafe, Corner of St Thomas and Essenwood Roads, Musgrave, Durban.

Time: 18h30 for 19h00

The Important Stuff: Cash bar and buy your own dinner! (Hey, I told you we’re low on sponsors :P)

RSVP – sign up on the 27dinner website here: http://www.27dinner.com/ and RSVP to the event here: to be inserted once event is up on website

Lastly, please pass this on to anyone else you think might be interested!

Hope to see you there!

Cath Jenkin and Briget Ferguson

Last week I posted about how Google is coming to the South African party by upgrading Google Earth to include 3D buildings in some of the Major cities.

I have done a bit more research and found that they have now made all of the stadiums being used for the World Cup available as 3D Buildings. This is really really cool.

I have created a KML file (Download), which you open with Google Earth, which will allow you to “fly” to all the stadiums and see them in full 3D glory :)  Make sure you have 3D buildings selected in Google Earth when loading the file.

Without being biased, being a Durbs boy, I honestly honestly have to say that the Durban stadium takes the cake this round. It is by far the most awesome looking stadium out of the lot…Promise, no bias :)

If you been following the IPL Pro20 series that is currently underway in India, you may have noticed Australian  and Chennai Super Kings Batsmen Matthew Hayden coming out to the middle with a rather odd-looking bat.

The bat, called “The Mongoose“, has been specifically been designed for Pro20 cricket. The blade of the bat is 33% shorter than a standard cricket bat, while the handle is 43% longer. The bat apparently also provides about 20% more power to the batsmen using it.

It’s great to see innovation been made in Cricket, and especially in Pro20. This bat definitely looks like it could be a game changer. For more info on the Mongoose bat, check out the informative information on the Wikipedia Page

This morning I woke up bright and early to get down to the Durban harbour to see my latest purchase the worlds largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, make it’s way into South Africa for the first time ever.

I had read up quite a bit on the ship, and was absolutely blown away to see it arriving this morning. She leaves Durban this evening, and docks in Cape Town on Thursday, before carrying on with her rest of the round the world journey.

The boat has 17 decks, and is 72m high and 345m long. Queen Mary 2‘s facilities include fifteen restaurants and bars, five swimming pools, a casino, a ballroom, a theatre, and the first planetarium at sea. They even have kennels on board if you fancy taking your pooch along for a sea cruise !!! To get a better idea of the size of this monster, check out this image below, that compares it to a couple of everyday objects. To read up a bit more about the Queen Mary 2, check out the Wikipedia article

I took a couple of shots, which I have posted to a Flickr set.