The first thing I learnt — and admittedly it took a fair number of months — was that I should not have given up my day job. Alright, I didn’t give up the day job as I didn’t have one to start off with. But still. I would have starved if I had depended on […]
Anja Merret
Anja Merret lives in Brighton, United Kingdom, having moved across from South Africa a while ago. She started a blog at the beginning of 2007 and is using it to try to find out everything important about page ranks, traffic and all things internet-marketing related.
Her soap-box material is the war in Iraq and anything that causes innocent people to get hurt. She also loves tech stuff, as an amateur only, and considers herself a Silver Surfer Gadget Girl Geek. Huh? Her musings may be found on http://www.anjamerret.com.
She has recently started a new venture, offering marketing advice to newbie business folk. It's especially for those who by necessity find themselves self-employed. Read more at: http://www.marketingfundi.com
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A life worth living
There were two stories during the past week that made me ponder human nature. The first one was the story about seven young people living in a small Welsh community who took their own lives over a period of about a year. These young people, aged in their teens and 20s, committed suicide and it […]
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People are taking back their power
This is the world we live in. Personal freedoms are squashed whether by governments or religious fervour. Remember those ubiquitous CCTV cameras in the UK. The work place is structured and controlled to ensure that individual creative thinking is reduced to a minimum. Education produces drones and is focused on ensuring that the drones find […]
Posted inLifestyle, Tech
The takeaway society
One thing that really surprised me about the United Kingdom when I first moved across was the number of furnished homes that were for rent. One hardly comes across that in South Africa where most people accumulate their own living things. It’s not uncommon for the locals to pack a few boxes, tuck them under […]
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In Steve we trust — maybe
During my search through cyberspace to find the best live reports on Steve Jobs’s keynote speech at Macworld yesterday, I came across an ad that had the caption “In Steve we trust”. Very funny. See it on the Popular Mechanics website. It’s entertaining writing about Apple and possibly even — dare one? — mentioning something […]
Posted inTech
In Steve we trust — maybe
During my search through cyberspace to find the best live reports on Steve Jobs’s keynote speech at Macworld yesterday, I came across an ad that had the caption “In Steve we trust”. Very funny. See it on the Popular Mechanics website. It’s entertaining writing about Apple and possibly even — dare one? — mentioning something […]
Posted inBusiness, News/Politics
Drugs are healthier for the bottom line than for pain
There is a disease called fibromyalgia whose existence is questioned by a fair number of the medical profession. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it has a cure for it, according to the New York Times. So here we have a disease which might not exist, but there is a definite pharmaceutical cure for it? Far […]
Posted inTech
Apple has something in the air
The suffix “-ology denotes a field of study or academic discipline. Appleologists, as mentioned in Ars Technica, would therefore be people studying the field of Apple. Contrary to logic and belief, there are many who could fit this description. As the buzz about Macworld 2008, Apple’s annual shindig, is building to a crescendo, the air […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Blair banks plenty on new job
Every now and then something hits the news that is so funny that hysterical laughter and streaming tears are inevitable. Such a news snippet was in the Independent online today and probably in a fair number of other news sources. Tony Blair has landed a job as a part-time consultant to one of the best-known […]
Posted inMedia, Tech
Beware — the sneaky bots are everywhere
Every time I write about privacy and security on the internet I get a whole bunch of people who accuse me of paranoia. They maintain I am looking for conspiracy theories — if you have nothing to hide, then why worry who is following you on the internet? Besides which, I’ve been told, as consumers […]
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Beware — the sneaky bots are everywhere
Every time I write about privacy and security on the internet I get a whole bunch of people who accuse me of paranoia. They maintain I am looking for conspiracy theories — if you have nothing to hide, then why worry who is following you on the internet? Besides which, I’ve been told, as consumers […]
Posted inTech
2008 the same as usual, I should think
Predictions for 2008? Highlights of 2007? I’m sitting in Brighton, speculating about this. Candles are lit, the Christmas tree is still OK, although the needles are starting to moult quite rapidly. And it has roots, so we hope to plant it out in a forest somewhere. That is if we can find a forest where […]