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The recent development plan of a new job listing site that we’ve been working on included a request from the client to set up some ad modules using GoogleAdsense. Against my better judgement based on past experience with the Adsense programme...
~ This post is a follow-up to our earlier post “Gasp! Of Dead Flamingo Dresses, Retail Superstars and PR Brand Fails”. You may want to read that one first to understand the background.~ For those still doubting the validity of the recent...
See Also: GASPs Fashion Forward Television Spokesperson Justifies Their Gaffe ~Update~ GASP clothing has defended its position by releasing yet another jaw-dropping response. The statement came after a spat between the retailer and a customer,...
In the column (“Haffajee does it for white masters”) that got him axed from the Sowetan, Eric Miyeni suggests that City Press editor Ferial Haffajee allowed the publication in her newspaper of a series of articles disclosing the questionable...
On 08 May 1886, 125 years ago today, John S. Pemberton created and served Coca-Cola for the first time at Jacobs’ Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta. In that year an average of just nine drinks a day were sold. 125 years later and the brand whose...
In an absolutely classical “lost in translation” story, an ‘entrepreneurial’ manufacturing company has failed dismally in its attempt to cash in on the upcoming Royal Nuptials of Prince William Windsor and Miss Katherine Middleton. The...
In an attempt to cash in on as many viral video meme’s as possible, Jennifer Aniston has been roped in by US bottled water company SmartWater to star in what they hope will be the next viral video. Well, to be fair, they’re not really ‘cashing...
Anshika Packers & Movers (anshikapackersmovers) has nothing to do with Yahoo. Yet for a good part of today Alexa, the global web site ranking service, seemed to think they were one and the same. Whether someone managed to access the site...
The US-based news and opinion magazine The Atlantic recently compiled a list of the 15 Most Hated Companies in America. And that’s not my expression. The authors don’t refer to these companies as ‘the most disliked’ at all – nope,...
I have always been interested in restaurants. I have often seen myself owning one. So a couple of months back, over a bottle of wine or two we came up with the plan to open a HOME RESTAURANT. The concept has taken off overseas and is slowly...
After Blink and I got married I did all I could to make him feel like his own person. I got him his own Woollies card (still waiting for it), applied for ANCYL membership because Blink is very liberal. I also created his own facebook page –...
The King Of Tease, as he was known, Lolly Jackson was gunned down on May 3 this year. His killer is still on the run, apparently. The estate that includes this Tuscan mansion on the banks of the Hartebeesport Dam in the Westlake Country and...
The 8ta “Hello” advert song by Martin Solveig is here Please note that The BlaBla Blog has NO connection to 8ta or Telkom whatsoever. We cannot answer your 8ta related concerns. We recommend that you contact 8ta directly via their...
[Prepare yourself, it’s going to be a long one…] Are South African socio-political nobodies busy posturing for position? With local and national elections imminent, there seems to be a rash of “I am so desperate to be recognised I’ll...
I’ve received a number of scam attempts via email in the past two weeks. And they get cleverer and cleverer each time. Or at least the phishers seem to think they do. Both have (on the surface of things) seem to be sent from the normal Standard...
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