Celebrations in Misr

31 Jan

Portrait of a young teen celebrating
Tonight Egypt continue to dominate their appearances in the Africa Cup of Nations.  A 1-0 win over Ghana secured their championship and put the streets of Cairo into a frenzy.   We joint revellers in the streets of Mustafa Nahas Street, Madinet Nasr soaking up the celebrations.

Fun was had by all, from 1 year old babies wrapped in Egyptian flags to senior women in their niqaabs now sporting Egyptian flag colors.  The absence of alcohol tends to prevent rowdiness and hooliganism normally associated with street parties.

Some photographs below.

Cairo and Working Online

28 Jan

This post will breakdown the various tech that I’m using to continue work while travelling and studying in Cairo.

Firstup is hardware. I’m using a medium level Asus Notebook – K50ij series with 2gigs of ram, 320g storage, Intel Dual Core T4300.   This has surprised me with its speed and ability to multi-task with Photoshop, Corel draw, Gmail and a few other browsers. Lastly a 500g external usb powered drive for daily backups of all files, settings, software, etc. Watching movies and playing games is not a priority hence a 15” LED backlit screen suits me just fine.

For file management between JHB offices, webclients and myself. We are all using Dropbox.  The 2gig free version is more then enough to keep things going smoothly.  Website updates, advert submissions and text documents are all handled through this. A few successful referrals has bumped me to about 4gigs of online storage.

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Onward to Cairo

27 Jan

Touchdown Cairo! – We landed in Cairo on Tuesday morning and spent most of the day registering with Al Diwan for arabic studies, Etisalat for Mobile & Broadband and lastly catching up on some much needed sleep.

The evening saw us take stroll exploring the surrounding areas of our hotel.  Far from the hustle that Cairo cities are notorious for, instead this middle to upper class suburb meets city style was quite refreshing. From Ed Hardy boutiques to various sport shops and an impressive boutique bakery.

Some images below.

Blast from the Past – Autostyle Overview

6 Jan

Way back in 2006 I created this little company overview to pitch us to potential suppliers, publishers and the like.

Earlier today I posted it on Slideshare.net to share the document with more clients.  At time of this post, Slideshare.net has it featured on their Automotive category

Autostyle

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Domains & Sites

31 Dec

Below are a few domains and websites that I’m looking to sell off. Alternatively if you have a really good idea, perhaps we can collaborate on something.

www.blogosphere.co.za - No site for this domain, however it could make a great aggregator for South African blogs, more so since theres only 2 competitors locally. Afrigator & Amatomu

www.FoodBlog.co.za – currently a mini aggregator showcasing a few leading South African foodblogs. It’s in somewhat of an autopilot mode but I’m sure more can be done with it (more…)

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