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Obama gets quacked by Duck Ringtone in Press Conference

danbaileyuk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:26:57 +0000

Haha, talk about embarrasing… gees this reporter will definitely have a story to tell when he/she gets home. Wonder if it had anything to do with Obama’s speech on Gay Rights? Don’t think so but nice to see that President Obama is chilled enough to go with it and even asks ‘Whose duck back there?’

Listen carefully after around 18/19 seconds you’ll hear it.

The Banned “Special Assignment” on Political Satire and Zapiro

danbaileyuk — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:45:50 +0000

The SABC (South African Broadcasting Company) has been quite disappointing of late, just before the SA Elections the episode of ‘Special Assignment’ was stopped from airing due to its sensitive content on how Zapiro had depicted Zumo raping the justice system. The show was again due to screen this week but again was stopped at the last minute, what the hell aren’t we allowed freedom of speach is the SABC been totally controlled by the Gov and the ANC now?

Anyway, the show was put up on the Mail & Gaurdian Online – see it below:

South African Elections 2009 Results Widget

danbaileyuk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:49:11 +0000

Wow, News24 have certainly played out of their boots in making an awesome little widget with up to date results from the 2009 SA elections.

Currently the ANC is just below the 2/3 majority, hopefully they don’t get it.

View the widget below:

New Nando’s Ad targets elections and Julius

danbaileyuk — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:25:56 +0000

Wow, Nando’s is well known for its brilliant ads targeting relevant issues in South Africa and always walking the line with what is allowed and what isn’t. In its latest advert where it doesn’t necessarily indicate who exactly its targeting as they only mention him by his frst name, Julius, we all really know who it is targeting.

Now we all know who its targeting and in what for me is the 2nd scary response from the ANC, Malema warns Nando’s to retract the adverts all face a mobilising of force’s against it. This coming after Zuma is sueing Zapiro for his comics… Will we in a couple of months time see government take control of the media and stop free speach? The way the leaders of the ANC are acting it certainly looks like it!

I wonder how they dealt with criticism at school or do they only now threaten anyone who publically criticises them? Seems to me we have a bunch of ‘boys’ running this country who become very inmature when criticised, maybe their mom’s should have spanked them more when they were young!

2008 is coming to an end…

danbaileyuk — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:26:00 +0000

As this is my first year of blogging I’m still getting use to all the norms and from the blogs I follow I see quite a few people summarising their year and making predictions for the next year. I don’t think I’m going to quite do that but will outline a couple of things.

First of all something I just read on TechCrunch is the logo that MobileAge is using for their iPhone icon, take a look and see if you can see what it really is:
Pretty funny stuff, wonder if the designer could see it or just had a case of looking at it too long he couldn’t actually see it.

Interesting video below on a new book ‘The toilet paper entrepreneur‘, I might place an order soon.

Otherwise have a good Christmas and New Years, I’m off for a couple of days – can’t wait. But in the mean time there are plenty of things to look forward to in 2009.

1) Launch of Allthingsmobile – my new site
2) My mate finishing the Cairo to Cape Town cycle race for charity – go donate now
3) The new SEACOM underwater cable coming online in June which will hopefully decrease prices
4) Telkom coming into the wireless broadband scene and possibly as a new mobile operator
5) The 2009 elections in SA

Crunch Time: Obama vs McCain

danbaileyuk — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:34:00 +0000

So in my last blog I spoke about the world wide support for Obama and that I would most probably vote for Obama.

My blog posts get posted on Facebook and one of my friends in the USA commented on my post disagreeing with me, I asked him why and the 2 main reasons he came up with were:

1) Experience (age and time in office)
2) Lack of understanding as to what is required to steady the American ship

Now from my side and the rest of the world we just read bits and pieces that gets put on the web, from all the news I’ve been reading I initially wanted Hilary Clinton to win and since Obama won I’ve been generally ‘supporting’ his nomination.

BUT is this what the world needs, is this the right decision based on what we read from the news… The reason I bring this up is because if this is my opinion from here all the way in South Africa what are the people’s opinions like in the USA/rest of the world and how easily is it swayed?

For me, I just want the republicans out of the Bush mess but who is better – McCain or Obama? I guess we’ll see in a couple of hours.

But I can definitely see its quite a heated matter as I just made a few comments on Facebook and got quite a few replies quickly from my American friends.

If the world could vote (US Elections)

danbaileyuk — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:56:00 +0000

A friend of mine just sent me this website link, check it out. Basically what it is allowing people to do around the world is vote in the US elections and its limited to one vote per computer – the results are interesting.

So far nearly 500,000 people have voted and there is a definite winner. Check it out and lets hope the same results come out of the US in a couple of days.

I heard that Obama released an iPhone Application that will let you know which of your contacts are in ‘swing’ states and urges you to call them to make sure they vote.

I wonder if anyone here in South Africa will be this creative in their marketing, not that we have ‘swing’ states… but still, time they get aboard.