What hilarious ads from Ameriquest in their new -Don't judge too quickly - campaign.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Florida's Highways
On the way back from our Easter Weekend up North, I always look forward to passing Daytona, where the famous Daytona Speedway is located. This is Harley Davidson-country and there is always a picture-opp. on this stretch of Florida highway down to the Keys!This couple was part of a group of 15 riders heading South.
Anyone up for a Harley trip accross the US in the near future...? Pleeease contact me!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Baie Geluk Jollie!
Daar is 'n troue in Maart ini Kaap wat ek gemis het. 'n Nooi Cloete heet nou Mrs. Jolanda Scourfield. Ek is spyt ek was nie daar nie. Julle is 'n beeuutiful couple! Veels geluk!!
Friday, March 07, 2008
Bill Toppled As World's Richest Man
After 13 years on top of Forbes' World's Richest List, Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates' reign at the top has come to an end. Ironically, he has been surpassed by non other than his good friend and philantropy partner Warren Buffet of Berkeshire Hathaway fame.
Alas, despite being worth $58 billion, a mere $2 billion more than last year, that is only good enough to place Bill in third spot - globally. Also beating him to second spot is the Mexican telecom tycoon, Carlos Slim Helu, who's fortune has doubled in the past 25 months.
View the list of billionaires @:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/07/billionaires-worlds-richest_07billionaires_cz_lk_af_0308billie_land.html
The list certainly indicates change - two years ago 10 of the top 20 billionaires were Americans, today there is only four. However, among the total list of billionaires acrros the globe - 1125 altogether! - approximately 45% are still Americans. The country with the most top ten finishers are ....India! with four.
Russia is second behind the US with the 87 billionaires, less than 2 decades after the fall of the great USSR. Germany is third with 59 billionaires.
South Africa's top spot is held by the owner of a small family business - a mining family business! - Nicky Oppenheimer of De Beer's ($5.7 billion). Patrice Motsepe of South Africa and Nigeria's Aliko Dangote joines the exclusive club og billionaires, the first Africans to do so.
And then, the most enviable of them all: The creator of Facebook, 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg, is certainly the youngest self-made billionaire in mankind's history.
Alas, despite being worth $58 billion, a mere $2 billion more than last year, that is only good enough to place Bill in third spot - globally. Also beating him to second spot is the Mexican telecom tycoon, Carlos Slim Helu, who's fortune has doubled in the past 25 months.
View the list of billionaires @:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/07/billionaires-worlds-richest_07billionaires_cz_lk_af_0308billie_land.html
The list certainly indicates change - two years ago 10 of the top 20 billionaires were Americans, today there is only four. However, among the total list of billionaires acrros the globe - 1125 altogether! - approximately 45% are still Americans. The country with the most top ten finishers are ....India! with four.
Russia is second behind the US with the 87 billionaires, less than 2 decades after the fall of the great USSR. Germany is third with 59 billionaires.
South Africa's top spot is held by the owner of a small family business - a mining family business! - Nicky Oppenheimer of De Beer's ($5.7 billion). Patrice Motsepe of South Africa and Nigeria's Aliko Dangote joines the exclusive club og billionaires, the first Africans to do so.
And then, the most enviable of them all: The creator of Facebook, 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg, is certainly the youngest self-made billionaire in mankind's history.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull Trailer (iHD)
The Legend is Back! Ou Indie het toeka die oer-hartsnare van enige Hoêrskoolseun getokkel met sy avonture.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Globalization and the Dissolving of Borders
The world surely is getting smaller. Growing up it was an event to meet someone who has actually travelled to another country. Today very few of my peers have not yet been exposed to at least two other cultures in foreign countries. Cultural infusion and assimilation is happening rapidly and borders are dissolving due to technological changes and faster travel. Speaking of technology - it still leaves me speechless. Just yesterday I spoke via the Internet to friends and family on the other side of the globe - through crystal clear live audio and video feed.
Sarah was relaying a humorous insident that happened in her class this past week:
She was having her Fifth Grade class tell about their country of origin and a little about their culture and customs. Her kids are from all over - France, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Germany etc. Finally they asked her where she's from, and were flabbergasted when she said she's American. "A real American?!", was their response. "But really Teacher, where are you really from?"
Even Sarah had to give in then and explain that her most recent ancestry is Irish, Scottish and Blackfoot. We're all mutts, surely!
Bloodlines are rarely pure and cultures are blended, as the global population constantly is in motion due to war, famine, and economic opportunity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this great country we live in, the Land of the Free, the country build on the sweat and dreams of immigrants.
Given, this topic is both grandly interesting and simultaneously very controversial. Should the US allow more immigrants to enter the country? Or have they already been at fault by not closing their borders years ago?
This topic is worthy of a thesis.
Sarah was relaying a humorous insident that happened in her class this past week:
She was having her Fifth Grade class tell about their country of origin and a little about their culture and customs. Her kids are from all over - France, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Germany etc. Finally they asked her where she's from, and were flabbergasted when she said she's American. "A real American?!", was their response. "But really Teacher, where are you really from?"
Even Sarah had to give in then and explain that her most recent ancestry is Irish, Scottish and Blackfoot. We're all mutts, surely!
Bloodlines are rarely pure and cultures are blended, as the global population constantly is in motion due to war, famine, and economic opportunity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this great country we live in, the Land of the Free, the country build on the sweat and dreams of immigrants.
Given, this topic is both grandly interesting and simultaneously very controversial. Should the US allow more immigrants to enter the country? Or have they already been at fault by not closing their borders years ago?
This topic is worthy of a thesis.
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