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Media empire blogger, Jon Cherry has Announced a new blog into his stable of growing blogs.
Along comes Feverpitcher, a sports blog edited by Dan Nichol.
Feverpitcher delves into the in’s and out’s of the South African and world sporting arena.

Check it out at www.feverpitcher.com

As we all may know by now, our lovely Power Struggle Supplier, Eskom, is at it again.

Last year’s buzzword, Load Shedding (uughh, don’t want to dwell on that word for to long), is now being implemented all around the country. To see when you should stock up on candles click here.

But the irony of the situation. Reading this article this morning on MG, Eskom will be alerting us ON TV, as to when to turn off our “non-essential” appliances.

“Orange indicates an electricity strain — consumers are prompted to switch off non-essential appliances such as tumble dryers and dishwashers.”

Um, does that mean we get to keep our TV’s on all the time ?

On Friday my RSS reader alerted me very nicely that Dell was going to give me a free laptop.
Word soon started spreading, and Mike Stopforth ordered 6, and was going to donate them to Baragwanath.

Until today, when I received the following mail from Dell SA.

“Dell Inspiron 640m and 9400

Dear Marc,

I am writing to you to inform you that as a result of a technical error we have inadvertently advertised the Dell Inspiron 640m and 9400 on our web store at R0. This is incorrect. The goods should have been priced at R6,990 and R10,990 respectively. As a result we are unable to fulfill your recent order for these goods. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have already paid for any associated goods, software or delivery charges forming part of your order for the Dell Inspiron 640m and/or 9400 please furnish us with your banking details and you will be reimbursed within the next few days.

We are in the process of correcting these technical issues. We hope to have this store up and running by early next week.

Please do not hesitate to contact me or your account manager if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely

Gavin Slevin
Brand Manager – Mobile Products
[email protected]”

Pity about that, would have been great if we would have got a laptop for only R570. Pity Dell couldn’t have made a plan and even perhaps offered a discount voucher on a future purchase.

Would love to see how this one pans out on the web.

*** Warning Rant up ahead ***

As a nation, South Africans are generally quite lazy. We all know the slang, “just now” or “now now”. We all use it all the time, knowing that half the time, we will never get the job done, and when we do do it, its usually a half hearted effort. I’m not saying all South African’s are like this, but there is definitely more a majority than a minority. A perfect example of this a couple of years ago, was the drivers licence cards. Why was it that on the last day there were “queues around the block”, of people waiting to renew their cards. Same goes for when the gun ownership legislation changed.

Why the Rant ??

Well the company I work for, deals with the dialing of International and Local numbers.
Recently Telkom and Icasa announced that when dialing an international number, you need to no longer dial 09 as we have for thousands of years, we must now conform to the “international standard” of dialling 00. Like wise when dialling a local number in the same dialing code area, you now need to dial the dialing code as well, effectively making 7 digit dialing now 10 digit dialing.

Even though our company has known about this since October when it was announced, the project to change customers side equipment only started this year. Which means yesterday when the actual change took place, all of a sudden billing figures are not what they supposed to be, and means questions get asked, to me. Eish.

We need to change our attitude as a nation and start being proactive, and doing things before they HAVE to get done. I’m pretty sure it will solve many problems in our country as well.

*** End Rant here ***