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Online retailers are particularly sensitive to the effectiveness of their online checkout process. The measurement metric of shopping cart abandonment is a no brainer — if people abandon a virtual trolley piled high with goodies prior to check out, the till does not ring and marketing expenses incurred in attracting customers in the first place […]

Last night on Will Carling’s site Rucku.com, I politely asked a bunch of New Zealand rugby supporters to kindly lend me a hand with my son’s school project. In return I was told in no uncertain terms what I could do with my son and his project. I mean what is the point of people […]

Our national football team, Bafana Bafana, have always taken great pride in humiliating their long suffering fans, with this past Saturday’s performance proving to be no exception. In losing to Sierra Leone, a country comprising of 253 people, 14 dogs and a large tree stump, Bafana merely upheld a tradition of limp performances when playing […]

In doing some research on New Zealand rugby, in advance of the Springboks playing the All Blacks on 5 July, I discovered that the New Zealand Maori rugby union team actually came about primarily as a result of those New Zealanders of Maori descent who could not tour South Africa because of the colour bar. […]

On Tuesday, the Reddit team announced that it is releasing its source code to the public. For those of you who don’t know what Reddit is, it is a hugely popular Social News site, much like Digg or our local Muti. This is an outstanding move in that users not only drive the content on […]

Those of you who use Safari might already know about the PornPrivate Browsing button. You simply click it and while the feature is on, you will leave no trace. No cookies, no temporary files and no awkward link history popping up when you type in URLs in the address bar while someone is watching over […]

It dawned on me recently that programmers also do customer support. They have to help end-users get online at WiFi Hotspots and they need to help Hotspot owners set up new hotspots and help process payments to them. These tasks lie primarily with our technical division and accounting, but we rotate incoming phone calls to […]

Aren’t you sick and tired of wading through the Sun newspaper and reading all that garbage about this player’s girlfriend and that one’s wife? FFS, and then having to sift through those ridiculous slideshows of these women?! Last night, for example, I was going through the article on Abbey Clancy who is Peter Crouch’s girlfriend. […]

It’s taken me more than a little while to get round to breaking the seal on this blog. For openers, I’m taking the easy way out and plumping for a rant about two South African business sectors whose digital incarnations leave a lot to be desired. Exhibit A: Inbound Travel Where would the booming South […]

They say life starts at 40, and if this truly is the case then this year’s edition of the Mr Price Pro is set to be the best yet. Founded in 1969, the event formerly known as the Gunston 500 has brought the world’s top surfers to Durban’s shores for four decades, and 2008 will […]

SA Rugby Super 14 Franchise Participation Agreement 1 January 2006 – 31 May 2010What a day it has been today. A real eye opener on the professionalism of the Danny Jordaan LOC FIFA unit, compared to the amateur hour of SA Rugby’s Mickey Mouse unit headed up by Hoskins. All of this took place in […]

Two recent newspaper headlines “Grant turns down R10 million” and “Springbok captain John Smit released for club duty”, provide plenty food for thought. They once again raise questions about the expediency or necessity of allowing foreign-based rugby players to be eligible for Springbok selection. It could give a perception , probably false, that the honour […]