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I am back to work :-( only to find that the state ambulance services in our municipality are striking once again. Twice the local shack dwellers gathered in numbers and wanted to 'visit' the local mayor himself living in a 5 bedroom house.Twice we (the police) manage to turn them back (not that I really wanted to given their miserable situation) on the last occasion we let the police helicopter come from PE to scare them of (and it worked) Now I enjoy flying and managed to get some nice video shots :-) they want to gather on the 1 once again and we already organized the chopper. I am thinking to encode some video in wmp format and put it up for public viewing on my home page or blog. What is remarkable - everyone is quiet about all this albeit for different reasons.The politicians (black), the local business man (white) and the police. After all no one wants to 'scare' the tourists or any negative publicity about the beautifull and quiet Jeffreys Bay :-(
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Posted: 2005-12-28 12:04:03
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@mario2002: Seems like all the politicians are on holiday at this time of year..how can you tell? Well I don't know when was the last time I heard anything about the Zuma rape scandal or plots within to ANC to seize power.
Back on topic: I discovered that
expansys have a South African store...and wait for this the prices are cheap...everything is in Rand.
Damn, why don't these guys advertise? I'll browse through and see what sort of bargains they've got.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 12:22:13
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Hey everyone, merry xmas etc.
@Brix: I know the xpansys store thingy... my dad ordered ... I think Voip phones, etc. ... 2 days later they told (email) us that they can't ship the products to SA(the products was from the UK) and told we should get couriers, which they said is not guaranteed, we had family there get it for us. First impression wasn't that good... but maybe they've changed.. etc. but I know they have good specials and discounts there.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 12:51:32
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@slssls: Merry Christmas bro. On the surface though it seems cheap. I might just buy my next phone from them if they guarentee that they'll be able to ship it out to the farthest corner of Africa.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 13:46:35
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A pity that expansys doesn't seem to have a store as such in SA; as it just seems to be almost 100% identical to the UK site except for the SA flag in the logo, price in Rands and no 'deal of the day' section.
The contact address,phone numbers etc. are all the Manchester UK office details.
What would they charge for postage? I doubt they would use conventional postage. I've tried to send many things in the post to SA and every time the post office here will only cover/guarantee the parcel whilst still in the UK....
I could be wrong,but the reason it may be courier-only to SA is probably due to the continent's rather 'unreliable' postal service...I know this is indeed the case with several UK shops that I do business with.
If it is up to the client to organise the courier etc,then I wonder what the likes of DHL, TNT etc. would charge for door-to-door delivery...including customs/import duties and surcharges.
Please don't get me wrong; I would be thrilled IF they actually had a secure SA office for SA people to do business with, still at those prices.
Maybe this is a pre-cursor that they will have/or are planning to have a local store in the near future; I certainly hope so...
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Posted: 2005-12-28 14:26:44
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@da wanqsta: How much would I realistically pay for shipping a phone(avg weight=120 grams) to my office in Cape Town?
Did notice the Manchester address but like you said this could be precursor to better things.
Anyone messed around with Cell C's broadband product (it's actually EDGE but they insist on calling it broadband)?
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Posted: 2005-12-28 16:49:39
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Greetings from Nigeria! Merry Christmas and wishing you all a Porperous 2006.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 18:28:43
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@ das brixmeister,
I've posted a link for Royal Mail's overseas rates.
You can select 'signed for' or not,and there are other delivery options that you may want to check out.
http://sg.royalmail.com/servl[....]tion=consignia&pageId=frameset
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The SPV c550 is quite simply a great phone for the money,once one is used to the Windows Mobile menus and set-up, BUT...
I've been having a bit of a nightmare installing the 3D games on the SPV. I was able to install two using Microsoft's Active-Sync and the phone's USB cable. I am able to access the menus,but neither of the games load properly.
I have checked that there are no other applications running and rebooted the phone several times. I have checked to see that there is enough memory and I am only using 33% of the phone's RAM memory.
I even tried uninstalling one of them and then re-installing.I also sent the downloaded game via Bluetooth and not just Active-Sync.Same problem.
So why does this happen?!?
I then took the phone to the Orange Shop to see if they could help. No luck.They put me through to one of their downloads departments,but she was very quick to point out that I need to contact Handango directly,even though there is a download partnership agreement between the 2 companies.Fair enough. So it's back home and email Handango support.
I received a reply 10 minutes ago,saying that they will be now contacting the games' developers directly and will have an answer within 3 working days. We shall see...
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Posted: 2005-12-28 19:03:11
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@ coolapostle,
Thank you,and compliments of The Season to you and all the others in the PNF.
Yeah, let's make 2006 a good 'un.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 19:10:22
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In other news... (a journalistic colloquilism/phrase/cue acquired from da brixsta
), the UK's Carphone Warehouse has launched the first of their post-Christmas sales:
http://www.carphonewarehouse.[....]n-Home?DEFAULTTAB=ACCESSORYTAB
PAYG starting from the ultra-cheap n' nasty Motorola C115 for a whopping £7.49 (approx R78!) when bought with £5 (approx R55) calltime credit.
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Posted: 2005-12-28 19:28:55
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