I had to urgently buy plane tickets for a meeting in Joburg on Thursday and because I am paying out of my own pocket (well my business’s pocket – more on this very very soon), I wanted to find the cheapest flights. Travelsmart is a good site to compare flights, but the difference I found [...]
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World markets sent crashing
Posted on 30 September 2008
The $700 billion dollar bailout plan the U.S. government were proposing was rejected and as news of this hit Wall Street, markets went only one way. Yesterday was also the worst single-day point loss ever in U.S. market history with Wall Street losing $1.2 trillion in market capitalization. Here are some gloomy pics from yesterday’s [...]
No free Dell laptop for me
Posted on 17 January 2007
I just received an email regarding my order I placed for a Dell Inspiron 9400. Due to a glitch in their website, the laptop’s were priced at R0! All I had to pay was R570 for shipping. But as mostly everyone suspected, Dell probably wouldn’t pull through and send the laptops out of pure embarrassment. [...]
How to properly use a credit card and save money!
Posted on 23 November 2006
I hear it all to often from people that credit cards are “bad“. “Credit cards are so expensive to use!” say some, and the the most common one is “The banks just charges way to much interest on credit cards.“. The funny thing is that a credit card is the best financial product offered by [...]
World cup 2006 – kit sponsors
Posted on 19 June 2006
The World Cup does not only bring goals, tackles, passes, yellow and red cards, it also brings in millions, if not billion’s of rands in marketing, sponsors and advertising. It is the biggest and most televised sporting event in the world. Some 3.6 billion people watch the world cup every 4 years. So, along with [...]
