Working and Living in South Africa
Just another 14 days to go before the Vodacom BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) share offer comes to a close. The offer closes on 11 Sept 2008.
Around 14.5 million shares are up for sale at a discount to black-owned businesses Vodacom staff and the black South African public.
The over 6 billion Rand deal equates to 6.25% of Vodacom’s operations.
The prospectus is available at the Post Office and also on www.yeboyethu.co.za.
Bidorbuy is running a Smartbid competition on their Facebook page.
It is in the form of a reverse auction where the biddest with the unique lowest bid wins.
Google will be rolling out a new feature for updating Adsense units. It will appear under the Adsense Set up tab, with a Manage Ads feature.
Before, when you wanted to change the adverts, you had to change the code on your website. No more!
The new feature will allow Adsense code to be stored on the Google servers and changes will be made directly from the Adsense Account.
Check it out here
I guess Google will be able to keep a tighter reign on their ads and our Adsense accounts.
Makes loads of sense to me!
In high school I was part of a clique from day one to the last day of my last high school exam. I was never a day without my friends. At college I started feeling a bit more like spreading my independent wings.
Then came distance studies through UNISA. I always ticked the box for not wanting to be contacted by other students.
Even now years later, I hate being identified by a group. I try my utmost to be as independent and individual as possible. If some group wears pants, I will wear a dress. If the group wears a hat, then I will not.
I’m a bit of a rebel without a cause, unless being rebellious can be considered a cause.
During January 2008 I started blogging at blogs.24.com and met some fantastic people. My problem was that I refused to visit the blogs on the top 10 of everything blog related.
At first!
Eventually I gave up. The solicitation for comments and votes became too much.
Now here I am an independent blogger on the South African blog scene and therefore the worldwide blog scene. A place filled with cliques and mutual backslapping and self congratulation.
Not to mention Facebook and Twitter and LinkIn and goodness knows what else.
I’m hyperventilating as I type this.
High school all over again.
The other day Oprah appeared on tv with a rather good looking blonde ex-model, who lives in an equally good looking house in New York City and who found the answer to life. Of course said woman found her Perfect Prince Charming on the road to Damascus.
How lucky can one get?
For those who watch Oprah on a regular or occasional basis, you might be aware of this talk show hosts quest for spiritual enlightenment. More likely you will be aware of her almost manic look when stick thin ex-models and actors appear on her self entitled show. I’m not sure if Tom Cruise wasn’t goaded into jumping on the couch.
Maybe you get a bit distracted (as I do) when the guest appear on stage to thunderous applause, march over to Oprah and then stand there not knowing whether to hug or not to hug.
Back to the ex-model, whose name I’ve forgotten (purposely, I think). She was so blonde and so thin that I was hanging onto her every word, hoping to find THE SECRET.
Apparently to get to that nirvana, one has to stop eating animal products and become vegan. Oprah seemed fine with that and not being a big meat eater, I kept my ‘can do’ attitude going.
Seeing how Oprah was going to blog for the 21 days she intended following the diet (the blog seems to be down at the moment), I saw an opportunity to do the same. My eyes lit up…just think about – new content without building up a sweat, yayyyyyyyyyy.
The great looking house on Clifton seemed possible if all I had to do was give up some animal products.
After the third ad break, the deal breaker made its appearance and all my dreams disappeared.
No caffeine for 21 days!
