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Chilled plastics

Strawberry cream... One of their more chilled pieces. Was nice to hear a band who's portfolio was varied and line up of songs well chosen. Well done guys...

The plastics - rocking de house

The plastics, a awesome band in Cape Town, rocked the ku da ta club in bellville on thursday night.

Flutterbies

Is it just me or does Stellenbosch have big-ass butterflies?

Flapping SA flag

Simonstown's navy boats

Navy boats roar out of the harbour. Sea was like glass...

Simonstown visit...

Our youth visited simonstown naval base. What a beautiful day it was...

World's MOST...

World's most advanced bicycle... I would SO not mind having one of these ;) Link here to get the full story...

GPS navigation for S.A.

Was reading a post by jaap about the LACK of decent google maps for South African's on the iPhone. actually lack of google maps for south africa. This whole blog is about mobility and photography and cellphones so thought it appropriate to share a little jewel I just recently discovered. AMAZE GPS ... It's a simple program that works so unbelievably well it's actually quite AMAZING! ;) I downloaded it to my phone... was about a 640kb download and then it downloaded a few voice navigation files... in total about 1 meg... i.e. R2.00 for us South Africans! and there i was set for turn by turn navigation in this very country SOUTH AFRICA! ABSOLUTELY FREE... obviously having free things means having advertising... but hey.. the service works and it DEF's works on my Sony Ericsson c702. The c702 comes with wayfinder navigator integrated into the phone as well as a tracker program that is able to keep track of your routes you run or cycle which is really awesome! but... it&#

DAMN MTN!!!!

I recently ported over from Vodacom to MTN... and MTN SUCKS! So... Sorry for no blog posts lately but they don't seem to want to go through from my phone. Don't know if it's the porting that's the problem or MTN that can't send me the correct phone settings. Another gripe... Unlike vodacom... MTN don't have a 24 hour backup service for thier PAYING customers! only for thier PAY-AS-YOU-GO clients... what kinda stupidity is that???