Actually all his music videos are very funky !

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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.

Neat !

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Disbandment of the scorpions in South Africa

Well, Google has launched Google Lively, which in essence could be become a second SecondLife or more.  With Google Lively you can actually create rooms and let your visitors of your website chat within a virtual world.  Have a look !

TechCrunch article

Google Lively

This PDF is a quick guide to get yo going, click on the image to open a window to the orignal webpage.

Programmer Competency Matrix

Yesterday afternoon I walked(yes, I did) to our local cafe about 3 blocks up our street to go buy a few goodies for our Saturday afternoon, and I was just disgusted with all the rubbish lying around the streets.  One thing in particularly caught my eyes, BEER BOTTLES !!! Seems like after the rugby people just throw the bottles out of the window, or when the “cool dudes” in varsity sit and drink out of their car, they just leave the bottles behind.

My house is on a corner of two streets, and it is amazing how many sigarette buds and chip papers I find on the paving on a regular basis.  This probably is also some of the school children passing around the corner as well.

This morning I quickly drove to the other side of town to pick up some goodies for our Sunday big lunch(granny is turning 80) and what do I find in some of the streets…. BEER BOTTLES thrown on the road.  Also alot of rubbish.

Has the South African public had a moral shift, as it seems no-one cleans after themselves, everybody just throws down their rubbish and expect someone else to pickup after them. If each person just clean up behind themselves what a pleasure it would be and also give the non-functioning municipalities one less thing that they need to put on their “when we feel like it TO-DO” list .

As some of you know my official title I was appointed for at my current company, DVT is BPM Consultant where I deal with business processes and enhancing business effeciency by using technology to make the people work effeciently.

Previously up to now I’ve been using one of the best products available for rapidly deploying  BPM into companies, called Metastorm BPM(previously Metastorm eWork), but this has also ended as I’m slowly starting to move away from this product, and focusing on Sharepoint (WSS and MOSS) and a little bit of Radic@l (where I’im implementing some BPM into the package).

Last week I found myself adding some enhancements to the currently Radic@l application whereby I’ve implemented some core BPM principles to enable this locally developed product to be used for more complex business processes with the help of the Business Rule Processor(BRP) and some nifty database structure defining the process flow, this can proof to be a very powerful product.   The package enhancements I’ve done will enable users to perform manual actions and be moved to the next step in the process or will enable the BRP to pick a certain process instance up and move it to a certain next step depending on some current process instance data. This is very effective in sending notifications and especially escalations when someone is not doing there work in the desired timeframe. This is not Workflow, but true BPM. Enough said about Radic@l for now.

Since last year I’ve been involved in the R&D of Sharepoint, or more particularly in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.  Since then I’ve learned a great lot and have implemented this very successfully according to me.  About 3 months ago I really started looking into the development side of Sharepoint.  Very powerful product.

Although I’ve learned quite alot by myself, I’ve decided to attend training this week provided by Synergy and presented by Milan Gross.  Today will be the 3rd day of this training. So far I’m very impressed by the Synergy curriculum and the presenter of the training. Althought the facilities we are using, New Horizons in Rosebank is abit dissappointing, or maybe I’m just used to the quality of the facilities at DVT and IndigoCube(sharing offices with DVT).

Next week will also be quite busy, and I so need to get my hands on a 3G connection for my laptop as my cellphones GPRS connection is so unreliable and does not always connect and very bad quality.  Already I’ll be in 4 cities(if you can call it that) next week, making Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town the major ones.

So expect my next post when you see it … lol