I’m very lucky to have some won­der­ful ladies in my life, and since I’ve been run­ning around with my new cam­era (review to fol­low soon) dri­ving them crazy, I’d thought I’d invade their pri­vacy and upload a gallery of them onto the inter­net. In no par­tic­u­lar order of course!

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Wel­come to the fam­ily baby Belle.

I have been host­ing this blog with JustHost for about 6 months now, and over­all I have been very dis­ap­pointed with the host­ing I have received. The price is good, and the reviews I read were also good, but I have had noth­ing but trouble.

First all my add-on domains dis­ap­peared for no rea­son. The a post dis­ap­peared. Then the entire site was down for 2 days (hard­ware fail­ure I was told), and then the site went down a few days later again (DNS issues I was told this time).

#brand­fail justhost

It’s been quite a long time since I posted any­thing, and even longer since I posted any­thing sub­stan­tial. The last few months have been extremely busy, with both work and per­sonal time being fully stretched. I am happy to announce that I (think) I became the first dot­Mobi cer­ti­fied mobile web devel­oper in South Africa, which means that Be-Mobile is the first dot­Mobi cer­ti­fied mobi devel­op­ment house in the coun­try. I received my cer­tifi­cate yes­ter­day, and while I am not one for cer­tifi­cates, I thought it was quite cool none the less.

Be-Mobile also launched our new web site at http://www.be-mobile.co.za and to top it all off we also launched our first mobi site at http://m.be-mobile.co.za GO YOU GOOD THING!

I fee like I have been cod­ing like a mad man lately, and I think it shows. We have launched a num­ber of cam­paigns in the last week alone, namely

• Cell C Mobi Site
• SAT Ind­aba 2010
• SAT Travel to SA
• Rob Well­man Homes (if your in the mar­ket for a R6.5 mil­lion house)

The Be-Mobile asset man­age­ment engine also served it’s 1,000,000th file a few days ago. While this is not a mas­sive achieve­ment, I am still proud of it, and believe it is the start of great things to come for our plat­form. A lot of work has also gone into our report­ing capa­bil­i­ties, and I think they are start­ing to gen­er­ate real value to our customers.

I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a lot of trance while I work, and I’m lov­ing DJ Aspeth. If you get a chance check her out, she posts a monthly mix called her Trance­Cast, and it rocks!

On a per­sonal level, Tammy’s sis­ter had her baby on Mon­day, happy birth­day baby Cinzia!

Megan turns 17 months old tomor­row, and is walk­ing around like a cham­pion! She is so full of beans and full of life, and I love her more and more every day. We both went for our pic­tures for the green card lot­tery on Tues­day, and she was so cute in hers I had to post it.

Megan’s Green Card Photo

Happy 17 month birth­day my angel!

Dur­ing the course of the next month I hope to hear about my visa, so I’m hold­ing thumbs, and quite stressed about that. Until then I’m gonna keep on keepin’ on…

Happy 1st Birth­day Baby Girl

Happy birth­day to you

Happy birth­day to you

Happy birth­day dear Megan

Happy birth­day to you!

You are, with­out doubt, the most beau­ti­ful baby girl in the world.

I have been a cus­tomer of IBurst for a num­ber of year, approx­i­mately 3.5 I would say. In that time the ser­vice I received from Iburst has always been aver­age, with issues rang­ing to ser­vice not work­ing, to dou­ble billing, to not run­ning the debit order at all, and then cut­ting me off.

In recent times they have lost thou­sands of emails (not mine for­tu­nately, but my poor Mom and brother) and this week many web sites that I rely on for my busi­ness have been inac­ces­si­ble. I have spent approx­i­mately 1.5 hours on the phone to the call cen­tre in the last four days, I have never been called back, and I have never received ANY feed­back as to when the issue will be resolved.

Last night I found out that they changed their pric­ing, and that for R599 you now get 5gigs, rather than the 3gigs I am on. I was never informed of that, and I was not moved onto the new pric­ing, even though I am pay­ing the same amount. That is dis­gust­ing and unethical.

Iburst, with the com­pe­ti­tion com­ing, I’d sug­gest you get your act together, or else peo­ple are going to be flock­ing from you in droves. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to call Neotel.