Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
e-tv is celebrating their 10th birthday on 1 October!
The first broadcast of the station took place at 5.00pm on 1 October 1998.
For many viewers in this country without access to M-Net, e-tv brought an alternative to the 3 SABC channels and quickly surpassed two of them to become the second most watched channel.
Their news bulletins have changed the face of reporting – bringing news straight from the streets of the nation. The sensationalistic reporting was new to South Africans used to seeing coverage of politicians naming roses on SABC news.
e-tv’s movies usually win their timeslots, which isn’t always testament to the quality or newness of the movies, but reflects badly on the choices available elsewhere.
To celebrate their birthday month ‘e’ will be running competitions throughout October. Prizes include Canon cameras worth R10 000, Cell C cash prizes of R10 000 each,
Defy products to the value of R70 000 and a
Tata car worth over R70 000.
Happy Birthday e-tv and continued success!
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
No one can accuse Borat and Ali G’s brilliant creator of not knowing how to self promote.
Last Friday Sacha Baron Cohen gate-crashed a fashion show to plug his new movie subtlely titled “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt”.
He was escorted from the building by police, after making his runway debut at Milan’s Fashion Week .
His parting shot in pure diva style was – “Can I make a phone call.”
The video is available to view on YouTube.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The YeboYethu share offer closed on 11 September with double the amount of applicants than Vodacom expected, according to Business Day.
Vodacom expected about 50 000 shares to be sold. Eventually about 100 000 offered shares were taken up at the 10% discount as part of the black economic empowerment deal.
The Solidarity Union had challenged Vodacom’s BEE deal and encouraged poor white people to apply anyway. Since the offer was only open to BEE candidates, Vodacom now has to ensure that applications received are from appropriately black candidates.
Nearly 60% of the applications received were for the minimum of 100 shares for R2500, and just under 50% of the applications were from women.
Vodacom’s outgoing CEO, Alan Knott-Craig, described the offer as a huge success. “Our goal in this transaction was to promote truly broad-based empowerment, and the overwhelming public response particularly at the minimum investment level means we have achieved this goal.”
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Since Google’s brought out the birthday cake and plonked on hats for a party, I’m taking the opportunity to wish them all a happy birthday.
Can you remember the internet before Google?
There’s an entire generation, my 11 year old niece included, who have no idea that you had to ask Jeeves some crazy questions to get your homework done. I’m starting to sound like John McCain talking about the old days!
Oh, and Yahoo was one orange mess. They tried to keep you logged in for a whole range of reasons and tried to own your internet experience in not so subtle ways.
When I stumbled upon Google in the late 1990s, the simple white background and colourful logo came as a relief.
Google managed to get me to sign up for many of their applications without making me feel cheap.
So the shine is starting to wear off for me a bit now that I’m more aware of SEO and SERPS and all the things that make me trust search a bit less. Google is still a hundred times better than anything else out there though.
Here’s hoping for another ten years of success.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Times are tough for some 24 obscure words that were once favoured, but since fallen out of favour.
The folks at Collins dictionary have put these words on life support and your help is needed to save them from extinction.
A few British celebrities, like Stephen Fry, have already used their fame by adopting a word in the hope of highlighting their favourite word and getting the public’s backing.
So if you can use any of these words in a sentence without embrangling (confusing) anyone, you might be saving a word from sure extinction.
Take your pick:
Fusby – short, stout or squat
Skirr -the whirring sound made by the wings of birds in flight
Astergent – cleansing
Recrement -waste matter
Estic – rural
vaticinate – prophesy
fatidical – prophetic
periapt – combative
olid – foul smelling
malison – curse
caducity – perishableness
griseous -streaked or mixed with grey
muliebrity – the condition of being a woman
embrangle – to confuse or entangle
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