Mike Stopforth

Saw dust and solder - Two string fretless bass
My buddy Pete built a two-string fretless bass guitar out of practically nothing - and it sounds AWESOME. Check out how he made it…
(tags: bass guitar fretless two-string musical instrument peter le roux)

Saw dust and solder - Two string fretless bass
My buddy Pete built a two-string fretless bass guitar out of practically nothing - and it sounds AWESOME. Check out how he made it…
(tags: bass guitar fretless two-string musical instrument peter le roux)

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system
It looks like wireless electricity could be [...]

I give the guys from Cape Town a hard time, I know. The truth is I love Cape Town, but my heart is in Jozi. One of the things that suck about Johannesburg though, and probably more than anything else, is that when you’re not working there’s not much to do - recreationally [...]

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The Graduate School of Business in Cape Town launches a business education social network
(tags: GSB UCT social network education)

Office photos feature - Cerebra and Brandsh
Webpreneur Charl Norman features our offices in his office pics feature
(tags: Charl Norman entrepreneur Cerebra Brandsh)

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You know I’m a fan of the Dave Matthews Band. Devastating news for the band and it’s fans today is that founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore died yesterday afternoon, August 19, due to complications resulting from a serious motorcar accident near his Charlottesville ranch at the end of June. From the band’s [...]

This is a video of a recent talk I did at the exclusive Tintswalo equestrian estate (note the horse’s bum in the background) with the MasterMind Group of Professional Speakers, of which I’m a member. I decided at the last minute to ditch my PPT slides in aid of the old fashioned approach.

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Mandy de Waal has kindly written up a profile and interview with me in her new Moneyweb Life Wired section… I’m pretty honoured and it’s a very flattering piece.
Other people she’s featured include Charl Norman, Vinny Lingham, Ronnie Apteker and others.
Thanks Mandy!

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…but not on the billboard, it seems. I’ve been planning this post for some time, stopping arbitrarily (and rather riskily) on the side of the highway to snap photos of lifeless billboards, but it seems the incomparable Rui Esteves beat me to it at Ideate.
Now I’m a bit notorious for bashing billboards in my [...]