Category: Musings

  • Time to step up methinks…

    Hey all my faithful readers (That’s both of you)… Today marks the second Monday following the beginning of a series of news-events that have served as a catalyst for my recent decision to change the world. For real this time… It all started two weeks ago today, I was driving to workd (As you do…

  • Hmmmm… Online Dating, fun/scary…

    Having just created an online dating profile on a dating service that shall remain anonymous (under duress, I might add)… I have decided to make the best of this situation into which I am being forced, by experiencing the phenomenon of online dating, also, attempting to gauge the type of people that you meet online……

  • How I became a marketing manager…

    Well, I am still not exactly sure how this series of events came to unfold while I was fully conscious in the meeting, but somehow I have found myself in charge of a major re-branding and marketing drive for the company I work for… Now this could easily be described as just another bunch of…

  • A Week Using MacOS X

    Okay, now, having used a MacBook Air running MacOS X for one week now, courtesy of Alad, I will say this for the tiny little fruit… It rocks, as a gadget… As a tool, it is all but useless… It’s counter intuitive from a technical perspective, and testing and diagnostics are nearly not even worth…

  • And yet another epic failure by Apple and iStore…

    Well, would you guess it, turns out it was the OS disc that was faulty, so they replaced it. But not after I asked the technician wether he can confirm that it was just the disc and not the drive and received his assurance of said… Well, turns out that the untrained buffoons that work…

  • Mac woes continued…

    So, having finally giving up on using either the disc or drive that I purchased on Friday in order to reinstall the MacBook Air that belongs to my client, I have been forced to make the 40km trek to Vodaworld in order to let the “specialists” at the iStore tell me their thoughts and find…

  • When A PC Tech Tackles A MacBook Air…

    Well, having a ball of a time with what can only be described as one of the worst upgrade experiences of my life… But here we go: On Friday, one of my biggest clients asked me to “fix his computer”, I walk into his office and am greeted by what can only be described as…

  • Beer, Cigarettes and Pirated Content…

    I am presently seated at a major LAN event, which is held every month in a town close to my parents place. I try and make it out here every month, but on average I am only here once every three months due to my other responsibilities. But what makes me write about tonights event…

  • …Oh ja…

    I just realized that I wasn’t in fact done with a previous rant regarding taxis and our beautiful governments epic failures in the area of road safety… Hmph… Not really in the mood to get all worked up over that again… But I will at least close off the previous rant with the following; …as…

  • After a long absence, I bring nothing new to the table…

    Hey all (and by that I mean all three the people who follow my blog, that is to say if they haven’t passed away in the interim, which is entirely possible). So, here we are at the start of a new year, and we are all aware that the Fifa world cup is going to…