Just stumbled upon this post on BoingBoing this morning, where they posted an image of an ABSA ATM and talk about the
languages that it supports, and people replying to the post talk about how ATM accommodate different languages in their countries.
I am a supporter of eBlockWatch and think it is to the advantage of the greater community and can help one learn and prevent certain risks as well.
eBlockWatch has launched their Crime Camera Clips section on their website, and also host their videos on Youtube under an eBlockWatch channel.
Here is a video of an armed robbery when one of the person actually got shot(not on cam though), but you can see how the criminals operate and how they approach the premises.
PROJECT FRED - Visit Site
Project Fred is an entirely pointless program which counts the number of keys you press and the number of times you click your mouse, and uploads these totals to the Project Fred website. You can then compare how much you’ve been banging the keyboard with other users.
On Monday I was sitting at home watching an episode of Surface, and my eye caught a book that Cindy bought about a year ago over Amazon.
Some strange force attracted me to walk over to the book case and pick up the book. I start reading the backside description :
James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. He has abused alcohol drugs for a decade - and he is aged only 23. His family takes him to a rehabilitation centre. And James Frey starts his perilous journey back to the world of the drug and alcohol-free living.
mmm, sounds interesting.
The books name is “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey.
I’m not really a book reader, and never was, but I guess I’m probably getting older and maybe this is what I lack in my life, abit of relaxing reading.
So on Monday evening I run through the first 50 pages of the 400+ page book. The author James Frey has a real different way writing, short and sweet, the first few chapters are only 2-3 pages each. The method of writing is also cool, using alot of repitition to get a thought across like :”It is getting dark….It is getting dark” when he is blacking out, a method of getting his mindset at the time across. This gives excellent insight into the mind of an addict(drug,alcohol etc.)
I’m still not finished but find it a book that I still cannot put down very easily, especially for the fact that I don’t really read alot.
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.
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