Month: April 2007

I’m off to the ‘Koppi this weekend for some booze, bands and hopefully loads of bikinis.
And what better way to track my progress than via my little twitter page. (Assuming there is cellphone reception, which is pretty unlikely). Oh, and of course doing so will cost me a small international-SMS fortune.

But here’s a hint for those of you with real phones: (My RAZR died a horrible death, relegating me to Nokia 6210 land)

You can Twitter on the cheap fairly easily using a combination of MXIT and its Google Talk gateway. Here’s how:

Install MXIT, downloadable over the air or from the site. Register for a mxit account. It’s all very simple and intuitive.
Then register a Twitter account and configure your IM settings to point at your MXIT username (27811234567@mxit.co.za or whatever). After installing the MXIT client on your phone simply add twitter@twitter.com as a Google Talk contact et voila, you can now twitter at GPRS rates instead of SMS rates.
That’s bargain savings in South Africa with our rip-off telecoms industry.

It’s the beauty of open protocols and service collaboration shining to benefit the consumer.

Tags: mxit, google, talk, chat, IM, twitter, cheap, SMS, GPRS, data

So today I walked out of the shop with the following:

Double-sided tape.
Johnson’s Baby powder.
Panado headache tablets.
A white electric plug top. (For free cos they couldn’t tell me a price)

Strange combos in my puchasing habits… if this carries on I’m sure I’ll get onto some government psycho watchlist.

“…Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit the Frog turned to a life full of drugs, alcohol and sex. His fall to rock-bottom was quick and unrelenting. These songs document Sad Kermit’s pain during these years…and years to come…”

Here’s Sad Kermit – Hurt
And here’s a link to Sad Kermit – Creep.

Tragic…

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

[Via: Laughing Squid]

Tags: SadKermit, frog, music, muppet, cover, video

Lyrics modded from Grinderman – “No Pussy Blues”
Album: “Grinderman” (2007)

My face is finished, my body’s gone.
And I can’t help but think standin’ down here
In all this applause and gazin’ up
At all the blogs and the readers
With their triumphant eyes
That they must above all things love my site.

I saw a girl in the crowd,
I ran over I shouted out,
I asked if I had won her vote,
But she said that she didn’t want to.

I changed the shirt on my back,
I combed the hairs across my head,
I wore my best and still she said
That she just didn’t want to.

I reviewed Myepic, and Parlotones,
I tried my best to stay up late,
Took photos on every single date,
But still she just never wanted to.

I bought her a dozen blogger cards,
Rebuilt the site from WordPress shards,
Called it 52Weeks, I called it smart,
But she just still didn’t want to.
She just never wanted to.

I spent more on a better camera,
I played guitar as a Finkelstien rocker,
I tagged the posts with all my power,
But still she just didn’t want to.

I wrote reviews a hundred lines,
I picked a bunch of top designs,
I walked her through the noisy confines,
But she just even then didn’t want to.
She just never wants to.

I thought I’d try another tack,
I watched a gig played by The Kick,
I made Technorati link right back,
But she just laughed and said
that she just didn’t want to.

I thought I’d have another go,
Registered up with Amotomu,
I felt like Marcel Marceau
must feel when she said
that she just never wanted to.
She just didn’t want to.

I got the no blogaward blues.

The Blog Awards turned out to be a darn good evening. A slightly different, slightly more off-the-wall crowd was present for this event. It was great to see Peas and Third World Ant again, and to meet the infamous TV star Jonathan Cherry. Also made a couple of new aquaintances, like Champagne Heathen, along the way.

And of course there’s the link love for Mike Stopforth, Aquila(photos), Victoire, Vincent, Graham Knox and Wired Gecko.

Still more impressive was the work done by The Missing Link team. No later than an hour after the awards were finished they had turned their video footage taken during the ceremony into a two minute polished and edited clip of the 2007 SA Blog Awards with music and captions, all while giving the illusion of playing foosball (They had a sekret weapon). That is an incredible turnaround time, and apparently something the Links are notorious for. I am well impressed. If you need a schnazzy biz presentation I’m convinced they’re your solution.

My (few) BlogAwards Photos are here

Tags: blogawards, blues, music, sablogawards, 2007, awards, blog, SouthAfrica