The First Dog
February 26, 2009Just finished reading on CNN about Obama family chooses dog,
For those that are interested here is a photo of the Portuguese water dog bread..
Wonder if he is going to choose Black or White…
The Melting Pot
Life in South Africa, the good the bad and the ugly…
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SA Rocks- South African national anthem for English speakersThis was sent to me via twitter (courtesy of Mr Singe!). What a great way to visually explain the South African national anthem for those of us who firstly don’t know it by now, secondly know it but might not know how we are pronouncing it and thirdly don’t speak the languages in the anthem. [...]
- 702 takes on zasucks owner Bert OosthuizenLast night I was fortunate enough to be involved in an extremely interesting debate involving the owner of the zasucks blog (I’m still not going to link to that racist blog as I don’t want to promote it on this platform). Blogs like zasucks helped me start SA Rocks. It’s because of people like those [...]
- Consumer Protection Act SeriesDid you know that thanks to the Consumer Protection Act, South Africans will be amongst the best protected consumers in the world – from October 2010 when the law comes into effect. Of course the legislation is not worth the paper it’s written on, if we as consumers don’t know what our rights are. On the [...]
- South Africa has a new international brandAnd this it is: I am still not 100% convinced that I LOVE the new brand, but it’s clean, simple and definitely stands out enough to catch an eye. What do you think? Similar Posts: Chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs Things you wouldn’t think you’d miss: Language Barriers My thoughts on Shikota, the SANC and the SADC Stunning things in South Africa [...] […]
- Alternative energy for happy living: empowering South Africa with the sunEd’s note: This is a guest blog post from Sustainable.co.za. We all complain about the Eskom price hikes: while facing mass retrenchments and skyrocketing food prices we are also faced with the exorbitant price of electricity and the future threat of 30-40% price hikes. But what are we, as individuals, really doing about the cost of [...]
- South African national anthem for English speakers
big dog. big house
I see they names him Bo , nice, short and sweet and easy to remember..
[...] What I respected was the fact that I did not need to write a 300 word junk article sprinkled with keywords and SEO (White or Black Hat) techniques, no just provide users with what they may want to see, I knew people wanted to see a Portuguese Water Dog as it was chosen as the first dog. [...]
Was this the post that reached the top 20 on Amatomu.
Amazed, that such a sweet short post, with a pic was able to do this.
Thanks, That’s what makes it so amazing…It also showed me that Google is better than what a lot of people think, you don’t need those 300 word blurbs…