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Joke of the Day: The Husband and the Coke machine
Humour 24
1772 days ago Ramon Thomas

Joke of the Day: The Husband and the Coke machine

A man and his wife are in court getting a divorce. The problem is who should get custody of the child. The wife jumps up and says: "Your Honour, I brought the child into the world with pain and labour. She should be in my custody." The judge turns to the husband and says, "What do you have to say in your defence?" The man sits for a while contemplating, then slowly rises. "Your Honour, if I place R5 in a vending machine and a Coke comes out, whose Coke is it - the machine's or mine?" Read More →
The 5 biggest mistakes professionals make when it comes to meeting women
Dating 53
1772 days ago Ramon Thomas

The 5 biggest mistakes professionals make when it comes to meeting women

This is part of a Q&A series from my CNBC Africa interview. So here is my list of the biggest mistakes professionals make. You know just last week I was walking toward Village Walk in Sandton and I spotted a group of guys who likely work at Rand Merchant Bank or Investec. They were all wearing black suits and probably going for lunch. Now the first thing I noticed here is that these guys all looked the same. There was nothing that set any of them apart from the other. In fact they all looked like could Read More →
A civilized list when not to use email
Inspiration 28
1775 days ago Ramon Thomas

A civilized list when not to use email

Hot on the heals of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well. Read More →
How to maximise your time as a busy Professional when dating
Dating 53
1777 days ago Ramon Thomas

How to maximise your time as a busy Professional when dating

Professionals often don't have a lot of time to socialise. In brief, simple terms, what practical examples of how they can make the most of the time they do you have when trying to secure phone numbers or a date.

You must including online dating in your arsenal simply because it gives you access to hundreds of thousands of single women. And once you've set-up your profile, the part that requires most of the work, it's low maintenance and initiating contact is easy and convenient (Sundays is best to send first emails). Social networking websites Read More →

The lack of Email Netiquette as the Internet grows in South Africa
Internet 61
1777 days ago Ramon Thomas

The lack of Email Netiquette as the Internet grows in South Africa

My mentor Arthur Goldstuck has just released his latest statics on Internet growth in South Africa. According to his annual study growth has slowed down to 3% per annum and by the end of 2007 we will have ONLY 3.85 million South Africans online. This is including the explosion of access since broadband became available a few years ago. Anyway as more new people are gaining access to the Internet they are breaking most of the guidelines of good email netiquette. In the early days of the Web around 1994-1998 there were many people who policed the Internet and Read More →
Joke of the Day: Mbeki, Zuma, Fraser-Moleketi and Dlamini-Zuma
Humour 24
1779 days ago Ramon Thomas

Joke of the Day: Mbeki, Zuma, Fraser-Moleketi and Dlamini-Zuma

Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Manto Tsabalala Msimang were flying together in the President's jet. Thabo Mbeki suddenly said: "You know what. I can throw a R500 right now out of this window and make someone happy." Jacob Zuma said: "I can throw five R 100 notes out of the window and I will make 5 people unbelievably happy." Geraldine said: "I will give government employees 7.25% salary increase and make millions happy". Manto said : "I will can throw ten R 50 notes out of the window and make 10 people very, very happy." The one pilot looks at the other Read More →
Low-information diet and reducing workplace and technology stress
Business 25
1779 days ago Ramon Thomas

Low-information diet and reducing workplace and technology stress

One the best resources I've encountered, thanks to the prolific Seth Godin, is ChangeThis.com, a website where experts publish short manifestos (ebooks) which are available at no cost to you. One of the recent ones really made an impact on how I'm using email. The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours by Timothy Ferriss. I want to emphasise that I am not recommending the Four-Hour Work Week book because I have read all the negative reviews on Amazon.com and agree with most of it. And what did it Read More →
Father and Son Life Perspectives
Personal 28
1780 days ago Ramon Thomas

Father and Son Life Perspectives

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father. The son answered: "I saw that we have Read More →
Shift Happens – Did You Know 2.0
Education 11
1780 days ago Ramon Thomas

Shift Happens – Did You Know 2.0

This video clip was first introduced to me through Vinny Lingham's blog. I've since recommended it widely and also used it in a Social Media seminar I conducted at AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town back in May. It was a hit with the students. Anyway the back story to this presentation is now included in the new video version posted on Youtube. The presentation was created by Karl Fisch with assistance from Scott McLeod. I really believe we have a major problem in South Africa because we are not doing enough to get Read More →
The Triangle in Bermuda unravelled
Movies 36
1780 days ago Ramon Thomas

The Triangle in Bermuda unravelled

The Triangle is a miniseries originally broadcast on the Sci-Fi channel and now available on DVD. I rented the DVD over this weekend because it's about 255 minutes of running time broken into 3 episodes. This is a very original take on the Bermuda Triangle and time travel discrepancies. You will enjoy this DVD if you enjoy other current science fiction series like The 4400 or Heroes. The producers include Bryan Singer, director of first Read More →

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