A follow-up to a previous post about preventing poaching in the South Atlantic.
Boo-ya!
June 2004
Monthly Archive
In the news today, a Briton working on Lord of the Dance in South Africa has been shot.
Well, that’ll teach ‘em.: We’re not going to take it anymore! Let’s hope Michael Flatley takes notice the next time he thinks about releasing another tired, poncy, shirtless, jiggy dance thing on the world. I don’t believe it’s fair, though, when in all honesty, it’s Flatley who deserved it.
Move over Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey, we have our very own negotiator in SA. In fact, looks like there’s gonna be a whole lot more soon, with diplomas nogal!
Apparently, Amnesty International have now appealed to Mr Mbeki to step up our involvement in the cessation of human rights violations in Zim. So far the president hasn’t followed through on promises and “has gone quiet [on the issue] and his [June] deadlines have come and gone, yet human rights violations continue”.
Maybe it’s just me (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is), but it does seem like our government is doing something similar, if just a little more legal, less violent (for now) and slower here. Kicking people off their land is kicking people off their land, whether you do it with a sjambok or a document. Although, if push comes to shove, I’ll take the document, thanks.
Our country’s history makes me a little queazy, and it’s bizarre that anything can become legal if given the correct term and signature. Still , I hope we can resolve our issues, instead of just transferring them back and forth. It’s time to move on.
Damn, and I thought you only get this crap in America. A woman has sued Sun International because when she sat down to do her stuff, the bowl broke – so now she has developed a phobia about toilets? WTF. So can I then sue the government for giving me a phobia for paying tax?
Struggling to get a cellphone signal? At least you don’t need to row to the middle of a lake to use the phone. I think this pic was taken in Uganda but I need to check that.
UPDATE: Yip, our man Carlos was editing a video for MTN and he received this as part of the footage supplied to him.
And more to the point, what to they have against sales that they feel the need to sugar-coat it in this biz-community article?
| Professional Negotiator – Cape Town A professional negotiator with strong selling skills at Director level. We have the best products in the market place with the largest database of qualified leads. Our top sales people earn R20K plus per month. The position is to sell advertising and sponsorships on leading business publications and events. – read more… |
The thing is, good sales people are actually pretty hard to find, (mediocre sales people are a dime a dozen) thus the good ones i.e. the ones these people should be attracting, would have no problem applying for a job specifically for sales people. Professional negotiator, psssh, what a wank!
Oh, but if you are a budding negotiator, click here…!
I was at D’aves place last night showing him a soopa game called “Painkiller“. So I showed him the amazing graphics of the game and he ran around blowing undead things to ittie-little-bits. Painkiller has to be the most fun I’ve had since Quake 1. The lowest memory requirement for the game is 300 and something megs RAM and I’ve only got 256. The levels do thus take quite some time to load.
Now on to the network gaming… We played a bit of Quake 3, then switched to Serious Sam Demo. Quake 3 was alright but Serious Sam was the winner of the day (We couldn’t play painkiller on D’aves machine because of lack of space and his processor being a little short of a few gigahertz). We had a few other options (Starcraft, Quake 1, Blood 1 & 2 etc.) but time was running out. Anyway, the reason for this post is that I discovered just how much fun playing the “older” games can be. You don’t always need to have the latest and greatest hardware (but it helps) to get the most out of your box.
BTW: What happened to co-op play in games? None of the new games (maybe with a few exceptions of which I don’t know about) have this option under the multiplayer settings. C’mon, Painkiller would be 10 Gazilian (excuse the spelling if it’s wrong) times better if someone could join me in the fight against evil and not just your standard head-to-head multiplayer game.
Thanks to Bianca for the great foodies. Veggie food isn’t that bad after all 
“The South African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SA-Fact) has confirmed reports of large-scale DVD piracy in South Africa”, read the first paragraph in the SABC article.
Really? You people obviously don’t get out much, if you haven’t seen the guys at every traffic intersection with brand new, unreleased titles for R100. Or the tents set up on the side of the road with the huge signs screaming at the world about their Cheap Movie Titles. Ever been to a flea-market, where people have set up stalls that only deal in pirated software, available for all to see? And you only realised this now.
Welcome to Shoppers’ Paradise!
Net-suck
Posted by Don Packett under Uncategorized on June 22 2004 at 8:44 AMIf you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, and you’re looking to install a tracking system, get anything except a Netstar system.
They urge you to phone them at least once every six months to test that it’s working. So I did. On our way back from holiday in January, passing Bloemfontein, I phoned to test it. They got my details and told me I’d get a call when they’d got a signal. Wow, that’s nice, I don’t have to sit on the phone on hold waiting for them, I’ll just get a call back. Sofa king lucky for me ‘cos I’d still be on hold!
It happened again this Sunday on our way back from Bloemfontein. I phoned to test it, they got my details and told me to expect a call when they got a signal. Ahem. I’m still waiting for that call…
I’ve complained to four people, who just passed me on to the next, mouthing off the same story. I’m now waiting for a call from the branch owner in Bloemfontein who’s going to see what went wrong.
I’m not holding my breath.
Update: The Head of Netstar in Bloemfontein gave me a call and we had the following convo:
Braam: To test a vehicle, the vehicle must be in a main city.
Don: But what if my vehicle thieves don’t want to be in a main city?
Then he told me what they should’ve told me in the first place.
Braam: If a car is stolen, we send out the helicopter, and it becomes the control room. It costs thousands to send the chopper out, so when we test, it’s preferred if the vehicle is in a spot that’s easily accessible. After all, it is just a test to see if the tracking device is working.
As I said, if they’d just told me in the first place…
