Should you check your email?
This flowchart by talented illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, while slightly tongue-in-cheek, is a splendid guide for our ever-connected times. My advice? Don’t.
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Pizza Inn Newlands charge Large, serve Medium
via Twitter No. That is wrong on so many levels. And this, after I sang Innscor’s praises and even name-dropped Pizza Inn as doing a… Read More »Pizza Inn Newlands charge Large, serve Medium
Ministry of Environment & Tourism website hacked
The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has had a severely ugly website. That website has been hacked. I can’t tell if this happened recently, but… Read More »Ministry of Environment & Tourism website hacked
World Consumer Rights Day – March 15th
Apparently tomorrow is World Consumer Rights Day. According to the release by Consumers International, a “world” consumer-rights advocacy group (and group of groups) based in London, these guys do this every year, across the world.
Gideon Gono “stole public funds” – Kereke
Munyaradzi Kereke is a former lieutenant of the current Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Gideon Gono.
Munyaradzi Kereke has written a letter to Gideon Gono, making a large number of sensational allegations. It makes for interesting reading, but as with any matter of dispute, we take the allegations with the requisite scepticism.
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before It Spreads
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well… Read More »How to Remove Your Google Search History Before It Spreads
Ministry of Finance website hacked
The Abs0lution group has hacked the Ministry of Finance’s website. One of the top stories reads as follows: Robert Mugabe & Morgan Tsvangirai reportedly dead… Read More »Ministry of Finance website hacked
Call for Contributors
Candid Consumerism, a blog that seeks to give voice to consumer issues and promote dialogue between consumers and service providers, seeks contributors from people based… Read More »Call for Contributors
Facebook Timeline: Make Old Posts More Private
So. Facebook finally rolled out its much-anticipated Timeline feature, which brings a snazzy new interface to your profile, not to mention the ability to see every post anyone’s ever made back to their first day on Facebook. Every. Single. One. You can get the Timeline feature right now, but Facebook gives you seven days to adjust the look of your timeline before it goes public. Chances are, you’ll want to tweak a few things before you publish it.
Innscor are bringing sexy back
I had a little flap with Innscor last year. This was concerning their rebuilding of the Pomona food court, and the (apparent) lack of a Nando’s outlet there.
I was quickly reassured that there would indeed be a Nando’s at Pomona, and have visited it a few times.
We’re One Year Old Today!
It has been one year to the day since I launched this blog.
It’s been fun, and there’s no better than feeling than when you’ve made a difference, either in someone’s life or in the way things are done.
Here’s to us, the consumers who prove every day the we are not sheep.
Salut.
“Buy Zimbabwe”; Do As We Say, Not As We Do
Whilst going through my favourite publication this morning, I came across what seemed an interesting article.
With businesses closing down in Zimbabwe, unemployment is increasing and as a result, there is less consumer spending.
During tough economic times, it might have been hard to come up with anything more visceral than the appeal to “Buy Zimbabwe. Save a job.”
All well and good, and this seems like a noble effort. Except … buyzimbabwe.org.zw itself is not even hosted in Zimbabwe.