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  • Date: July 28th, 2006
  • Time: 8:50 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 4

Caption Fridays #16

Dang what a week… shoo. We found a winner for the domain competition. I’ll be sending Dan a DVD of his favorite tunage. Look out for developments on www.buum.co.za. :)

So here’s this Friday’s image. For your viewing convenience, I’ve linked the image to the full size version.. Enjoy.

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  • Date: July 27th, 2006
  • Time: 11:08 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

Top 10 bookmarks you just gotta have

I use bookmarks all the time. If I visit a website more than twice a day, I create a bookmark. They say laziness is the mother of all invention and I’m not ashamed to admit that I agree with that.
Bookmarks = Less typing = Time Saved = Money Saved
So here’s a list of the bookmarks that you just gotta have in your collection. In fact I have a folder called “utilities” and therein are all the bookmarks that I find …

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  • Date: July 26th, 2006
  • Time: 12:43 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

Do you still watch the news?

I don’t watch a lot of TV. I don’t have the time. But I’ve been hanging around quite a bit with a new friend and their father watches the news a lot. They got DSTV (cable), and he loves SKY news, BBC news, CNN etc etc.. and I’m sorry, but I hate the news.

10 minutes and I’m depressed already.These guys are bombing those guys. 50 People dead or injured by those guys and these guys …

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  • Date: July 24th, 2006
  • Time: 4:47 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 12

Score yourself a DVD of Music…

Ok, here’s the dealio… I’m looking for somewhat of a literary genius, with a bit of creativity to come up with a domain name for a new website that a partner and I want to start. I need something fairly generic - ie not specific to a topic like cars.com, and something funky, not like cars.com. The only project information that I can give you at present, is that it is blog …

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  • Date: July 23rd, 2006
  • Time: 11:17 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 2

How far do you take customer service?

Just about every job on the market nowadays, regardless of industry or sector, will require you to be involved in customer service in some form or another. Maybe you’re dealing one-on-one with a customer, or you’re answering the phone between oil changes…. at some point, you’re going to have to deal with the people who’re paying you to perform a service. How do you handle these interactions?

My first job was that of a waiter at a St Elmo’s pizza shop. …

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  • Date: July 21st, 2006
  • Time: 9:26 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 5

Why women take so long in the restroom

For you men, you may want to think twice about asking a woman what took them so long in the restroom.

When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line ofwomen, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it’s your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.

Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the …

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  • Date: July 21st, 2006
  • Time: 9:04 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 4

Caption Fridays #15

Yay :) Its Friday again.. and in a few short hours (I got it!!!)I’m getting my brand new Packard Bell Virtuoso 19″ LCD… woohooo!! In other news, yet another 2 mates of mine are engaged and planning to be married in September this year. That brings the count of ‘marks-friends-who’re-getting-married-this-year’ to 5! Damn.

Anyways, have a rocking weekend and have some fun with this weeks caption…

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  • Date: July 19th, 2006
  • Time: 2:21 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

Of Vaseline, Divorce and Flights

Vaseline
A man doing market research knocked on a door and was greeted by a young woman with three small children running around at her feet.

He says, “I’m doing some research for Vaseline. Have you ever used the product?”

She says, “Yes. My husband and I use it all the time.”

“And if you don’t mind me asking, what do you use it for?”

“We use it for sex.”

The researcher was a little taken back.

“Usually people lie to me and say that they use …

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  • Date: July 18th, 2006
  • Time: 12:15 pm
  • Written by: Karen
  • Comments: 3

Compliance vs Values

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for progress and being compliant with incoming laws and new trends in the corporate world. However, one thing that I cannot STAND is incompetance.

One day you’re happily typing away sending and receiving external emails, then the next day you don’t receive and people start smsing or calling asking why you haven’t responded to their urgent emails. We’ve just brought a few new service providers on team with our company. …

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  • Date: July 18th, 2006
  • Time: 9:55 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 5

George does it again.. Surprised?

You know, the first few times, it was funny, but acceptable. Then it happened a few more times and we were all like… “oh-kay… thats a bit doff…” But now, dang, its become a freggan laugh-a-minute with George Bush doing stupid stuff in front of the camera..and now, in front of the mic too.

Seriously, this guy became president of the US how…?
A microphone picked up an unaware George W Bush saying that …

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