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Monthly archive August, 2007

Review Singles Weekend with Fastdate at Shumba Valley Lodge

Shumba Valley LodgeLast weekend I attended the first Fast Break event with Fastdate. This is a weekend away for singles. By the way I detest the word "singles" (it stinks of desperation and I prefer "unmarried"). The idea is simple: a group single people (about 16 men/women) go away for a weekend trip filled with activities. My role was to give a talk on "Dating in the 21st Century" on the Saturday. This talk will shortly be available as an ebook I'm working on called Social or Single. Read More →

African Bloggers monthly SkypeCAST for August 2007

This month we discussed the importance of Social networking profiles and how to link it with your blog. For the last few months since TEDGlobal myself and Henry Addo, a blogger from Ghana, has been having regular discussion via Skype on Blogging. Currently Skype allows maximum of 9 people on a Conference Call and in the future we will move to the SkypeCAST platform to reach more people. This month Andriankoto Ratoza also joined us for the monthly session. This month we discussed the following:
  1. We started off discussing LinkedIn as the premier business to business Read More →

Maybe Jason Bourne is better than James Bond

Matt Damon as Jason BourneJust came back from watching the awesome Bourne Ultimatum. Matt Damon really kicks some solid ass in this film like he did in the previous ones. Bourne is tortured by memory loss and is on a mission to find out where it all began. This got me think about Jason Bourne vs James Bond as a spy but more so as a male role model. It's been said other than their initials they do not have much in common. Jason Bourne Read More →

The Single Life or the Social Life

Before you can even begin to think about how to improve your dating, relationships and social life I ask you answer the following question as truthfully as you can: On a scale from 1 to 10...how much do you like or love yourself?

If this number is less than 5 we have a serious problem. I mean, think about it, if you don't like yourself, how can you expect someone else to like you? One of the biggest myths in relationships is that when I find a new girlfriend, boyfriend, a partner or soul mate they will Read More →

Want a second date? Pay for the first – NOT!

The Professor of Poon, Tom Leykis, brought this article to my attention from a recent show. The author of the article starts out by saying how the deal was sealed when she went on a date and at the end of the dinner, her future husband, didn't hesitate to pay for the dinner. The author even calls herself a hypocrite because she is a feminist and she is still getting her way with her man. Isn't feminism supposed to be about equality? Without rehashing the whole story I would like to point how you can indeed get away Read More →

Leykis 101 – Never Date Single Mothers

Tom Leykis 101People are usually pissed off by this one. I also have personal experience with dating single mothers and these days I avoid them completely. Suffice it to say I have been there, tried it, and found it does not work for me. Here's the Leykis 101 rule on why you should never date single mothers. Why? You already know their stance on abortion: they won't have one. Don't risk paying vaginamony or child support. Her kids will always be #1 in her life, and do you really want to Read More →

Something happened on the way to the front page

Early in 2006 I was featured in the now defunct Nova newspaper and about a week later the paper shut down. Back in 2004 I was featured on the front page of ThisDay newspaper and shortly afterwards it was also shutdown. Now if I was superstitious I would think those were bad omens for me. I'm not. So it must be a sign of the times - no pun intended. The exact demographic Nova was targeting has had 10 years of exposure to the Web and to mobile phones. According to the Pew Internet & America Life Read More →

Self regulation by knowing who's editing Wikipedia

Virgil Griffits creator of Wiki ScannerLast Friday I was interviewed on the Midday Report with Chris Gibbons. This is a very fast paced show which addresses everything from business to politics and what lies in between. The topic was who's editing Wikipedia which has been driving up a storm of online commentary. A Caltech graduate Virgin Griffith has developed an application Wikipedia scanner, which identifies the anonymous edits on Wikipedia pages. Most of the articles on Wikipedia, which now has almost 2 million English language Read More →

TEDGlobal Talks premier online with George Ayittey

Earlier this month I received an email from Chris Anderson, the curator of the TED following up on the conference in Tanzania. Several videos from the TEDGlobal conference I attended in Arusha a few months ago premièred online. My favourite is George Ayittey who roused the audience, alternating from lacerating criticism of Africa's "hippo generation" to an inspiring appeal for the "cheetah generation" i.e. the youth who are taking things into their own hands to effect change. You can read my own review of his talk here. So if you like what Read More →

The question is: Why did the chicken cross the road?

PLATO: For the greater good. * ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads. * SADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. * MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: ... I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives being called into question. * FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual Read More →
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