About 2 week ago I flew down to Cape Town for a quick “product pitch”, and I have learnt this week that we have received the order!

Yay, so this means for the whole of next week I’ll be spending my week in Cape Town designing and hopefully implementing a solution for our client in just 5 days(will be a Rapid Application Development project….why do we have RAD tools ????duh) .

All and all it’s nice to go to Cape Town, but now I have to leave my lovely wife and son(3 months old) at home for the week .

So for other bloggers and friends in Cape Town, if you want to meet up for a drink or 2 just give me a shout or reply to this post so we can arrange.  I’ll be staying in a guest house in Bellville for the week.

See you next week  !!

written by Arné

Excellent initiative.

It seems Google SA has approached(I assume) Jake White and helped him start his own YouTube channel called Jake White TV .

In this intro video Stafford Masie, CEO of Google SA(previously from Novell(still awesome)) introduces Jake to the YouTube crowd.

written by Arné

When I was still at varsity , Satisfaction from Benny Benassi was the in-song, just today found the “sexy version as well”.

Actually all his music videos are very funky !

Original:

Sexy Version:

written by Arné

Last week Thursday, I had to fly down to Cape Town the morning and flew back to Joburg in the evening, this time I flew with Kulula.com, my previous time I flew I flew with Mango.

So basically I was very impressed with the service, and on-time flights of Kulula, except for one thing. As Kulula is a private company trying to survive in the aviation world, they must get their funding from somewhere.  When boarding this particular flight, there was advertising on the in-flight luggage holders(above passengers heads) with stickers advertising the Kulula credit card.  After a while getting  bored on the flight, I had a look at the little magazine provided in the flight, where I also was bombarded with advertisements of Kulula partners and other ways to just take my money away from me.   Before we landed the hostesses went on about you can now go stay in this group hotel and can go hire a car at this car rental institution.  All the hard marketing started to really irritate me after a while.

In contrast, Mango is funded partly/indirectly by government, and they don’t have any of the advertising during their flights. I’ll fly Kulula again(they really make good jokes during the flight), but I just have to ignore all the marketing and advertising campaigns which is just too in your face.

written by Arné

Well, I’ve been watching “How I met Your Mother” tonight, and this episode is where all the friends discover Robin’s deep dark secret….

I love this series !

written by Arné