Keep Flying The Flag

Keep Flying The Flag
http://blog.onlineshopping.co.za/keep-flying-the-flag.php


From OnlineShopping Blog
July 22, 2010

I have noticed in the last few weeks since the world cup ended a banner floating around on people’s emails and on face book with the slogan Keep Flying. At first I thought it was an advert for one of the airlines and the more I saw it, the more curious I got.

So eventually I decided to go see what it was all about and went onto their website. After spending a bit of time on it, I realized that this was something I wanted to support and be a part of.

In my opinion who ever started it needs a great big pat on the back as I think it is going to do great things for us all, because it’s going to help build our nation and create unity amongst us all, which has been lacking for as long as I can remember.

Up until the world cup we all had our own agenda’s and to be honest I was one of those people. All we did was bitch about everything, and then carry on with our lives with out actually doing anything positive about it.

Let me tell you the World Cup was an awesome experience for me and really I have never been so proud to be a South African, the memories will remain with me forever and I am truly gratefully that I can say I was there. I’m pretty sure all of you can say the same thing, as the vibe and the way all South African’s came together was truly remarkable.

And it just shows you there is a lot of hope for us if we all just do a little bit to make it better.

Anyway back to keep flying – here’s their website Keep Flying – go support it, grab the links and place it in your email, if you have a website go put the logo up. If you don’t know how to do these things then just go tell everyone you know about it.

Lets all get involved in making our country a better place, because we can if we try.

Also here is the link to their Face Book Page – it has some awesome video’s which will put a lump in your throat.

 

The above was posted as is from my friend Dale Maxwell as posted on his blog. Please help spread the word and support the cause!

Thanks

Chris

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Eassy live, but consumers must wait

Eassy live, but consumers must wait
http://www.techcentral.co.za/eassy-live-but-consumers-must-wait/

The East African Submarine System (Eassy), the second high-capacity fibre-optic cable along Africa’s east coast, is live. However, local Internet users will have to wait until at least August to enjoy the benefits.

The West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), the largest shareholder in Eassy, announced this week that the cable is ready to be tested by its owners.

Alcatel Submarine Networks, which built Eassy, will officially hand over the cable to the WIOCC board on Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya.

Though the cable is live, local operators say it will take a little longer before it carries commercial traffic.

Telkom says it hopes the testing will take only two weeks and expects the cable will be able to begin carrying commercial services from as early as August.

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Article: DigitalPoint Banned From Google AdSense. But Why?

DigitalPoint Banned From Google AdSense. But Why?
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022565.html

On July 15th, DigitalPoint Forums, a forum we cover here often, no longer was showing Google AdSense ads on their pages. Rumors began spreading so Shawn Hogan, the owner, posted a blog post saying A 3rd Party CAN Get You Banned From AdSense.

He claims that his account was banned due to third-party web sites. He said:

While I still think the majority of people who claimed to have their AdSense account unfairly terminated are probably just whiners that got caught doing something they shouldn’t be, I can say for 100% certainty now that it can (and clearly does) happen sometimes.
He showed how many sites were using his code on their own site in the wrong way. Why? He doesn’t know for sure but maybe to get him banned from AdSense. He said he began using the Whitelist feature after Google suggested it to him, but a few days/weeks later, he was banned.

(via Instapaper)

Wow, this is bad news if in fact they were banned because of the misuse of their adsense code by others. I hope Shawn gets his account restored soon. 

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Seth’s Blog: The non-optimized life

When you measure an activity, you can improve it. Computers make it easy to optimize just about every portion of your life.

Surely, you can optimize a website or a blog for traffic. You can optimize ads to make them yield more results. You can optimize your presentation style to close more sales or change more minds. You can optimize your workout to get faster and stronger. You can optimize your diet to lose weight and gain muscle. You can optimize your sleeping patterns to get more rest in less time. Cosmo even says you can optimize your sex life…

And then, at some point, you realize you’re spending your best energy on optimization, not on creation.

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Amazon plans CT call centre

Johannesburg – The world’s largest online retailer Amazon said on Tuesday it plans to expand its customer service centre in Cape Town.

The investment is expected to create 1 000 new jobs as it bulks up the company’s existing presence.

Said Brent Jaye, director of Amazon’s North American customer service division: “It’s important to have customer service representatives available when it’s convenient for our customers.

The retailer reported sales of about $7bn during the first quarter of 2010. Its local operations in South Africa are restricted to customer services, and do not include local shipping and currency for its retail services.

Just a pity they won’t start shipping any of their products to SA. We still need to rely on a couple of local importers, all with huge profit margins to import their products. Maybe in future… we can dream can’t we?

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MWeb desperate for Seacom solution

MWeb desperate for Seacom solution
http://www.techcentral.co.za/mweb-desperate-for-seacom-solution/15325/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FUqJF+%28TechCentral%29

As an interim measure MWeb says it was able to secure alternative capacity on Telkom’s Saix network from 5pm on Monday until 2pm on Tuesday. At that time, however, Telkom withdrew the capacity due to concerns over their bandwidth commitments it has made to Fifa for the soccer World Cup.

(via Instapaper)

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Quick YouTube Video Viewer test

The video below should load in a “Shadowbox” frame.

BestFlights Video

Blogging from the iPhone

I’m just quickly testing WordPress 2 for the iPhone to see how it will work as a blogging tool. The will enable me to update most of my sites from wherever I am.

This might just come in very handy next week when we’re at the beach.

Andre Bachelors

Uiteindelik nog ‘n post op die blog!

Hier is ons by Andre se bachelors – het nogal geniet. Sal so paar videos hoeronder oplaai.

Video 1: Bedel Geld vir Spykers

Video 2: toets ‘n bed uit in Sheet Street

Video 3: Q&A Test

Video 4: Shopping in Mall

Preschool Rugby Match

It was great to see my son (Alex) take part in his first rugby game against another team. He is in grade R (pre-school) and they just started learning how to play rugby this year. Below is a video clip of his team against the grade 1 team.

P.S. This was a great opportunity to test my new Canon HV40 camera – although it’s hard to see the actual quality on a website.