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The 29th 27dinner, held on the 25th to accommodate more folks (weekends aren’t ideal for these things), was, I think, an improvement on previous dinners.
The new venue, Cappello in Sandton City, suited our presentation format far better and encouraged a more networky vibe. Thanks to Garsen (the owner) and his team for their refreshingly [...]

Damn, that sounds good. Sadly I cannot confirm the validity of this report at Beat Magazine - SA’s newest satirical, um, publication (on the back of the lion that just didn’t last), but I really wish I could. The idea of a remote sanctuary in Port St. Johns is marvelous super duper.
Beat has already [...]

Demetri Martin is once of my favourite comedians. This particular skit ranks up there with the best of Izzard and co., if only for the inclusion of the flip chart as a prop. In fact I’m almost sure I’ve featured him on this site before but am too lazy to check it out.

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I’m pretty excited about a few conferences that’ll be happening in the next few weeks.
There have been a series of successful marketing-related Web 2.0 conferences this year that have served to raise awareness around the power of social media as a platform for engaging consumers, but top quality conferences addressing the application of [...]

I’m happy as a pig in pooh. For many years now I’ve had a not so secret obsession with reptiles (I once owned a few snakes) and have always wanted a Green Iguana. They’re amazing animals - millions of years in evolution and still so fragile - and incidentally one of the few [...]

I very seldom sleep during the day, but succumbed to an attack by the sandman while reading a recent edition of Maverick on the couch at work the other day.
Chris took the opportunity to snap a pic of me, lights-out, doing my best Stephen Hawking impersonation ever… classic!

Honestly, I’m convinced we hire some of the coolest and cleverest people in the country at Cerebra. Just take for example this email from Carl, subject ‘Can’t work with this poop any longer …’ which landed in my inbox this morning, had me in stitches, and which I couldn’t help but share publicly. [...]