The Ten Best SA Rock Tracks of 2006

Yeah, we’re winding slowly towards the end of the year, I figured I’d throw out a nice little list of the SA songs that really got me and my mates jammin during 2006. 2006 has really been a huge year for SA rock – the revival is on and people are starting to pay attention once more.

So here’s my list, ordered from bottom to top:

Both Wickhead and 16Stitch receive honourable mentions, but I still need to get more familiar with their newer stuff.

You may notice that The Hellphones appear twice. They deserve it. Besides, I stick with my East Rand roots.
Agree? Disagree? Think there’s something that I misssed? Shout it out in the comments.

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Nokia N95

Nokia N95

Unless Motorola can really step up with a slimmer, smarter device I’m quite happy to wait for what will be my next phone – the Nokia N95.

View the ad on Youtube here.

So Nokia, my Motorola is broken, now is your chance to snag me back as a customer. How about helping me out with a gift or demo model for a blogger who also used to work (contract) for you?

I promise to write an honest review!!!

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Work…

Here’s a little sentiment on how I’m feeling about work right now, courtesy the Weeds Season 2 Finale…

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Anti Blog

I’m far too tired/busy/shallow/hungover/lazy/pissed-off-with-firefox-crashing to write a real blog entry today, so I’m just gonna pretend I wrote something real good and if you like you can comment on it. Note the lack of any link to any external page, no image and yes, no content. Enjoy!

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24.com’s Broken Search Engine

So you’ve probably seen the ad for the kief 24.com-Johnny-Five, Nineteen-Eighties-Robot-Search that will find the socks that Tracker can’t. Great idea – take a really bad, boring and stale marketing approach to try and get people to use your search engine.

I guess the marketers cannot be blamed this time – after all, who would really want to promote a product that is broken?

Witness below the astonishing results as I clicked the ego search for “Shaun Dewberry”: (click image for full size)

Broken 24.com Search Results

Not one single link to dewberry.co.za, but plenty of links to other crap that doesn’t even mention me? Is 24.com being spammed? Is their database corrupt? A similar search for 52weeks.co.za yielded a killer three results, one of which appears to be just as dodgy.

I’ve tried other searches and they all seem to work. Is it just me? Is this belated revenge because I supported NobodyOwns24.com? Am I simply a lowly corruption in the big 24.com database?

Thank goodness for Google.

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