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Travel Woes... 25 Jul 2013 | 12:11 pm
A letter just sent to ACSA--Airport Company of South Africa... Last week I flew from Lanseria to Cape Town on Thursday and back on Sunday. My experience with your baggage handling was extremely poor....
Pick n Pay has a new CEO...but does he have a clue? 1 May 2013 | 05:46 pm
...earnings per share from continuing operations are 31% lower. The dividend is down by 36%... The new CEO, Richard Brasher, has been on the job for just 2 months. Last week he was a guest on a popul...
The Folly of Prohibition: why banning guns won't work 20 Dec 2012 | 12:06 am
When did banning something make it go away? In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting…the 27th in America in the past 10 years…people again are trotting out the knee-jerk “ban guns” demand. A...
Untitled 22 Oct 2012 | 04:54 pm
Saturday morning when I got up, my internet connection and my phone were working. Why is this significant? Because for most of September and October sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morn...
Snow? WTF?? 7 Aug 2012 | 06:44 pm
It is snowing outside. I live in a brick house with no central heating, and it is snowing outside. In Africa. The inside of my house is like the inside of a refrigerator. I hate snow. It never sno...
SPAM 9 Jul 2012 | 03:57 pm
I have just had ten spam comments on this blog in less than an hour. KNOW that if you comment here and include a link to another site and the comment (and link) are not truly relevant to the blog entr...
PUPPIES!! 2 Jul 2012 | 04:26 pm
Friday night and early Saturday morning (29 and 30 June) Puddin' presented us with a litter of 6 little Yorkshire Terrier puppies--cutest little things on feet (well, actually, on bellies just now!). ...
Profit or Loss? Customers write your bottom line 26 Jun 2012 | 11:31 pm
Pick n Pay is South Africa’s second largest supermarket chain. From the store’s inception in 1967 until 2009, it was considered a paragon, an example of how to do business. Since 2009, however, it has...
Big boobs: blessing or curse? 24 May 2012 | 09:43 pm
Breathes there a maiden raised in our culture who, upon seeing a full body profile of herself that reveals a modest bustline, has not wished for bigger boobs? The desire for large breasts is nothing ...
Renovating your rental 18 May 2012 | 08:28 pm
So, the day has come that you are the proud owner of a rental property…or perhaps you are still looking forward to that day. Whether you inherited a property, built a new home and the old one is now g...
