Reflecting on the vacation
The vacation was great. In the last two weeks we travelled 3500 miles by sea and almost 20,000 miles by air. Flying with an airline such as Delta simply sucks (SAA is worse) and you naturally lower your expectations to...
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Eskom: Power alternative
Eskom’s bizarre plans to increase tariffs in excess of 50% and even go as far as having consumers pay for previous consumption is short of criminal (and supported by the SA government). While many people believe that loadshedding and generators...
Rip-off alert: iBu(r)st changes prices and packages – watch out….
If you are a iBurst user you will be delighted that the company has consolidated the number of packages and re-adjusted the prices for contracts and month-2-month deals: However: As I am on a Pro 3gig package I assumed that...
Rip-off alert 2: iBurst introduces pay per use – R972 per gig
While discussing my migration with an iBurst sales consultant, I found out that iBurst introduced mandatory pay-per-use as of this month. iBurst will charge you an out-of-bundle rate of 95c per MB extra being used. The only way to avoid...
Petrol price increase: R 10,00 for a litre of diesel
The retail price of petrol will increase by between 66 cents and 68 cents a litre on Wednesday April 2. This is after increasing by 61 cents per litre last month, and 17 cents the month before. 91 octane unleaded...
Steers “lefty” burger – April fools joke
By now everyone should have noticed that it is April 1st today and the Steers “lefty” burger was a prank. The joke was taken from a Burger King ad run in 1998, saying that people could get a Whopper for...
Steers launches the “lefty” burger
Amidst the petrol price hikes, load-shedding and generally no service across the industry, I found it bizarre, that Steers launches the lefty burger: Steers today announced the launch of its latest salvo in the battle of the Burger Wars –...
Awesome service: Silver Thread Interiors
It is always nice to come across companies in South Africa which go out of their way to provide exceptional service at reasonable prices. After moving into our new house, we required blinds as well as curtains – while you...
Emigrating overseas – educational system?
Now who says, that Australia, New Zealand or the UK is sooooo much better:
Hellkom – lost another customer
I decided to abort my Telkom-science project in the pursuit of getting broadband. Although I had an existing IBurst connection, I thought it would be most patriotic to use our nations broadband service provider. It is just a pity that...
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