Read it here…!

This morning the we had the intimidating privilege of talking to a group of people far more intelligent than we are – which, I guess, isn’t saying much really.

We were guest lecturers at Wits grad school talking about blogging. We believe our good mate Roy will be chatting to them about creativity in business later in the week. They’ve been warned.

Thanks to all who attended, and special thanks to the polite few that laughed at D’ave’s jokes.

Perhaps it’s time to rethink this…!

(Thanks Wolfy)

One of those things you look at, then kick yourself for not trying while you were still at school…!

Well, at least I’d like to.

What a nifty little device! It lets you intelligently (see the little screen?) sync two ‘consenting’ iPods together, effortlessly sharing music, audio, iSTDs etc.

What’s amazing about these little iPod thingies is how many extras you can get for them (human skin cover?). Something to think about when you’re choosing your portable player of choice. Not much to think about, actually. Why would you want anything but an iPod, you silly people?

At just under $70, the iCopulator probably isn’t worth it (paying for copulation…?), especially with the lack of ‘partners’ in this country, but the snazzy pink sheath makes it a definite talking point. Although, that said, the snazzy pink sheath is not something I would pull out in polite company.

And it also comes with strawberry-flavoured lube. Yuk.

Update: Yes, it’s not real. If only… I reckon it’d sell

So here’s the thing.

Robert and Arnold are right, we should stand by what we said. The bits we agree with anyway.

So here’s what we’re doing.

- We’re have posted the initial post verbatim, with an “update/disclaimer” at the top.

- We’ve kept our apology live – we did made mistakes.

- We’ve written a follow-up post that states the facts as we see them.

- We’ve removed humour, opinions and insults – sticking only to the facts.

- We have added the comments from the original post to the end of this one (read em), we have done this is as we believe we have dedicated this forum to the public domain, thus it is not for us to delete the opinions of our readers.

There is no rule book for this, what we are doing here is what we feel is the right thing. Standing up for what we said, but also admitting that we were out of line in some respects. I would really, really welcome all of your thoughts on this. How would you have handled it?

Regardless, this is what we’ve done, we hope you respect it.

Love and kisses,

Jo’blog…!

(more…)

This is a fair and honest critique of The Speaker’s performance. These are the views of a person, myself, who was at the gig. These are not the views of the client, that’s why they were never mentioned in the first place.

Update: Following my points are The Speaker’s responses to each one, which is only fair to him.

He:

1. arrived ten minutes before he was to talk, after being asked to be there earlier,

2. plugged his PC laptop into a random power source he found, which then tripped the power,

3. brought his own bluetooth slide-changer, which didn’t work, so the crew had to run his show for him,

4. didn’t understand how to use the cue-light (see 1. & 3.) and blamed the crew when his slides weren’t changing,

5. forgot his finale audio clip, then blamed the technical crew for not having it,

6. placed business cards on every single seat at tea time, which we thought was unprofessional, because he was a hired speaker.

Overall, on that particular day, we were unimpressed with his professionalism, and were insulted publicy in front of our client, by him. We’re writing this to express our feelings on a particular event, just like a movie or book reviewer would.

Comments are more than welcome. I’d especially like to hear comments of people that did attend, to see if their opinions coincide with my own, as well as from The Speaker.

We’ve also included all the comments from the previous post, as we feel that people took the time to write them, so they should be published, just like this post.

The ever-so-lovely Bernice Trilling (fuck, even her name is hot), another Homegrown Honey finalist, was kind enough to send us a pic for our/your viewing (etc.) pleasure.

Which gets me thinking about an idea.

Miss Jo’blog

Hmmm…!

PS. This has caption challenge written all over it.

A while back I wrote a post where I said some stuff about The Speaker. It seems there’s been quite a storm brewing about it, culminating in very harsh comments towards myself and what I said.

The post was written in frustration, and with the signature humour Jo’blog readers have come to know and enjoy. I obviously didn’t think it would hit as much of a nerve as it did, turns out I was the wanker…

Dude, my bad.

The post has, as you might have seen,

been erased.

Update: Turns out Mr Schwarzenegger was busy.

Last night Jan and I supported another Benoni Vista Thursday Club charity event at Charellis in Benoni. Again, the charity organisation Starfish benefitted from all the money raised.

A four-piece blues band, called Red Hand, entertained us as we drank, laughed and ate the best pizza in the East Rand. Special guest, Rabin from Big Brother 2, has taken to stand-up comedy and had the place roaring with laughter. My favourite line was:

“You know why Indian people don’t win reality TV shows? I mean, I have a lot of family and friends being Indian and all, and the whole idea of those shows is to send SMS’s to say who stays and who goes. You know why I didn’t win BB2? My family and friends kept sending ‘Call me’s’.”

Once again rad prizes were up for grabs, once again I won zip! At the end of the evening the money was tallied up and came to a nice big R9 400, not bad for a very rainy day like yesterday. Ilan from the BVTC asked the guests if we could make it a nice round R10k, and we did. One of the other members walked around for like a minute and got donations, passing the R10k mark. Rabin, who also does charity events in Lenasia called ‘Chuckles for charity’, also made a nice contribution from the money raised at their gig this past Friday.

The next event will be happening on Sunday the 5th of June. If you’re into giving a little bit of your time and a little bit of your money to help the kids, join us then.

I have a manifesto proposal up at Change This. It’s called “First Impressions Lie“.

If you’d like to read it, I’d like to write it.

Vote here…!

Hey, if you clicked through from Bizcommunity, this post’s for you.

There are a few ways you can read this site, either by category, such as marketing (sorry, we’re not usually very nice to you guys here) or by starting from the top and reading the whole site, which has our opinions on all things South African.

As much as we’d love you to visit the site everyday, that’s archaic. On the side of this page is a “syndicate this site” link, that’s an RSS feed. Go subscribe to a service like bloglines, or if you’re a mac user, download NetNewsWire, and then add us. We’re nice.

Also, on the sidebar you will see a list of other local blogs we visit (a list is badly in need of an update), be sure to pop by them too. Most posts have links to more information, click away: do it for yourself, do it for the children, do it for the future of this great nation. The alternative is work, and lets face it, you’re under-paid, under-appreciated, and you’re boss is an arsehole.

You can also visit “Hello_World” our international blog, and if you’re insanely curious, see us in our day job, which we’re not about to quit.

Blogging is about conversations, all we’re doing is trying to start one, if you disagree with what we say, more power to you, click on the comments tab attached to the post and let us have it…!

Seems like it’s not just bloggers with spelling problems, the new centre management at the offices of Missing Link put this “suggestion box” thing up today:

And I put this inside:

SA supermodel Minki van der Westhuizen is hanging up her pink bra and petite g-string for a life behind bars, well, just one bar, in London.

:: sniff sniff ::

Update: I was April fooled, silly me. Thanks to Marc for the link.