Archive for June, 2008



Cape Town's Got Talent | South Africa's Got Talent

June 28th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 5 Comments

I was driving to the office this morning, and saw audition signs posted on the lamps along side the road: “CT’s Got Tallent – auditions bla bla bla” I couldn’t help but laugh, as I’ve just recently begun watching (okay, Tracy and I would have watched all the episodes in a row if we could [...]



REMI GAILLARD

June 27th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 2 Comments

A priceless find. Honestly, this is some of the best video I’ve seen in a long time! To say that I’ve had a bad week, would be like saying Zimbabwe is going to have a fair and legal elections this week. This chap, Remi, has a series of amature videos that he (& an unnamed [...]



Amazon.com (the Online Book Store) drops South African Postal Service due to theft.

June 26th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 2 Comments

A hurried interview with the chief of the SA Post Office in the wake of Amazon.com’s startling decision to dump them does not inspire much confidence. The giant online book retailer announced this week that so many of the books they sent through South Africa’s postal service were stolen that they had decided to use [...]



Botched mugging in Cape Town this weekend..

June 23rd, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 12 Comments

Saturday was off to an early start with Tracy needing to renew her drivers at the crack of dawn. Once we’d returned home after a rather fruitless trip to the traffic station we decided to head off to the Art Museum in Cape Town. Art being a passion of hers! The weather was rather miserable [...]



30 000+ FireFox 3 users in SA

June 20th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 2 Comments

FireFox 3 has launched Firefox into the record books with around 13 million downloads in just a couple days. On the release date, it racked up more than 8 million downloads, securing it a spot in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most downloaded App in a 24 hour period. South Africa has [...]



Mark Berger | Motivational Speaker, motivating riply.co.za

June 19th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | 2 Comments

Howzit I don’t know about you but jislaaik I’m now getting really gatvol of all the bad news. South Africa once again seems to be falling through its own poephol. I think I’m going to puke if I hear any more s#*t about Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwe, Crime, Eskom, the Oil Price, Inflation, Soaring Food Costs, [...]



FireFox Download Day | South Africa

June 17th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | No Comments

  Mark your calendar, wrap a ribbon around your finger or write a little sticky yellow note. Download Day will start on June 17, 2008.



I am mine.

June 13th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | No Comments

One of my favorite songs by the great: Pearl Jam The selfish theyre all standing in line… Faith in their hope and to buy themselves time. Me, I figure as each breath goes by, I only own my mind. The north is to south what the clock is to time. Theres east and theres west [...]



Petrol is driving crime, not vehicles!

June 11th, 2008 | Banter | Christopher J Combrink | No Comments

Motorists fill up and flee     Here’s an artical that a mate showed me today. It illustrates just how rediculous it is becoming to be South African. Having said that, I think that this’ refreshingly void of the doom and gloom Xenophobia has to offer.   “Durban – An increasing number of motorists burdened [...]