MIKESTOPFORTH

I’m going to try my hand at sports writing over the next few weeks. Perhaps just to deal with the emotional rollercoaster I’m bound to endure – if tonight’s opening match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup was anything to go by. The Pumas won it at the anthems. There was something about the way [...]

So perhaps you’ve heard of fat blogging, a meme started by Jason Calcanis of Sequoia Capital. I first stumbled across the term on Joe Jaffe‘s site. Basically, as I understand it, the idea is to declare your overweight-ness to you reading audience, with the intention of losing weight and having them (and other) fat bloggers [...]

If you follow this blog at all you’ll know that I recently upgraded to a new vehicle after utterly destroying my motor of my previous car due to an unfortunate altercation with an over-sized rock on a dirt road in Delmas. I decided to stick with Audi and after doing some homework agreed to my [...]

Ode To An Audi It was fate that brought you to my keep When a good friend emigrated to the Land of Sheep And since that day 3 years ago Truth be told: I’ve seldom driven slow. You’ve protected my family, let alone me As I’ve progressively hit everything save a tree. Yes, I confess [...]

A while back I asked who could help a friend of mine, Wynand, launch his anti-crime and personal safety campaign MAC 911. Stii was kind enough to help him out and now the project is ready to take off. A limited offer to the first 5 000 sign-ups of a subscription to the service at [...]

Ok, so maybe our UK and USA counterparts will be wondering why we’re over the moon with excitement at the overwhelming one inch of snow we received this morning across most of Johannesburg, but if I say that the last time this happened in our part of the world was on the day I turned [...]

I am in the enviable position of having gone to school with (and I daresay she spoke one or two words to me while we were there) South Africa’s next Charlize Theron – Carice Goossens. Carice is the front-lady to one of South Africa’s coolest up-and-coming acoustic-rock acts, Gently Scar’d, who are being recognised not [...]

Eve Dmochowska has contacted me to let me know that OpenCoffee, an idea originally ‘imported’ by Eric Edelstein, is coming to Jozi. The club was started in the UK in an attempt to “encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow…” according to Saul Klein, the founder. I [...]

On 16 June we celebrate Youth Day in South Africa – as we pay homage to the young revolutionaries who rose above the crowd to be exceptional, and paid dearly for their passion. Many of you know that. What you don’t know, is that it will also be the launch date for the fourth edition [...]

I’ve been a Nedbank client for, well, since my very first Permlazer card. It’s been a relationship of up’s and down’s, more up’s otherwise I wouldn’t still be banking with them. As it stands, my entire business and personal banking portfolio, except for my bond, is with them. Lately they’ve been irritating me with the [...]