To whom it may concern,

When I collect my new cheque card from your esteemed premises, as a replacement for the one I recently… er, lost, I would appreciate if you made a few logical assumptions on my behalf.

The first is that, being the collector of aforementioned cheque card, I might have some intention of using it, and thus would require a PIN number to match my spanking new blue spending machine. It’s next to useless without a PIN, not being able to assist me in internet banking or drawing cash, so why would I not want it?

If for some reason you are unable to assist me on this front, due to some unknown and mostly useless process/legal issue, of which you seem to have a plethora, the very least you could do, as a way of making my banking Simpler, Better and Faster is, upon my arrival at your bank for collection, is actually take some initiative and ask me if I need a PIN number for my new cheque card so I can use it, and then direct me to the right area or, heavens, help me yourself.

This would stop me from returning to my place of work, opening the card envelope in private, not finding a PIN number, phoning enquiries, being told I can only get it at the branch I had already left, and then returning for the second and doubly inconvenient time to Northgate.

And if you could do something about the snotty enquiries lady who gave me a ‘don’t-you-know-anything-about-banking’ look as a response to my complaint, that would be swell. Of course I don’t know anything about banking. I’m not a banker. She is… presumably.

Thank you for listening to my whinging.

D’ave

P.S. Thanks for charging me R90 for the replacement card, btw. That must prove it’s worth something.

Enough said…!

I picked up on two stories today that I could only laugh at.

The first is that the Ehlanzeni traffic chief, Charles Mdhluli, and his wife have been arrested for stealing R22m (subtle!). Here’s the kicker though, they have been released on R5000 bail each. Haha, if I was them I’d cut my losses, take the R21 990 000.00, and run.

The second is the story of a senior City of Cape Town copper that’s been given a desk job after being busted driving patrol cars for 13 years… without a license.

He had an excuse though (I fucking love this):

Rumour has it he’s going to assist the Mdhluli family as a getaway driver…!

Thanks loads to Rob for this beut. Apparently the car is driven by a chick that gets a kick out of being called a biatch.

Her next car should have CNT RVRS plates though…!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Handstand’s Duravu Bullet Proof iPod Shields:

I’m gonna buy me 50 of these fuckers and just stick em all over my body…!

“I just can’t get enough…”

The circle with the things sticking out of it was my very first tattoo, now I’ve just added on to it.

Four images in this one. Snatch’s eyes in the top of the circle, a guy with a gas mask and his arm in the air at the bottom (taken from Green Day’s American Idiot imagery), a section of a speaker at the bottom left behind the guy, and the majority of it is a film reel, with the film strip running around to the back of the arm.

Once again, a big fat thank you to Marcus from Evolution. And for the wise arses out there, yes you D’ave, I did in fact enjoy a big fat Christmas lunch, or two.

Saw this on the bathroom wall at Cape Town airport.

- On the right: “GET YOUR BRAND MOVING THIS YEAR. With Digital Screens And Static Framed Ads in Airport Washrooms.”

- On the left: A digital screen with an error message.

Must be a new Windows campaign or something…

Jonga now offers a news aggregation service, SA’s first. It’s pretty cool, but again, RSS would rock.

The also have a rad mobile search, just point your phone to mobile.jonga.co.za.

Oh, and Treo users (and everyone should be a treo user) can use HobbyistSoftware’s Genius app to search jonga too.

Nice…!

Much respect to Fodder for pointing me to reporter.co.za, a new news service created by Johncom.

The basic idea, which is very cool, is that people submit stories (not opinions i.e. blogging) and they get posted on the site. What’s more, the writer gets a wee bit of cash too.

They even give a crash course in writing for their budding citizen journos.

I have three problems with the site though:

1: No search (crazy, chat to Alistair)

2: No RSS feed(s)

3: Shit layout, really, really horrible to navigate, they need to learn from these guys.

However it’s a nice idea and worth supporting so while It’s not much, we’ve got two pretty rad Missing Link shirts for the first SA blogger to get a story up, y’know, just for kicks…!

Alas this one’s for the Mac users only, but I laughed when I saw this sim/board game:

The object of the game is fairly straight forward:

Oh and be sure to read the game reviews the developer posted on his site, here’s a choice one:

So if you have a mac, go give Mugabe a kick in the whatsit…!