One of the interviewees for a new position at the SABC board made this stunning economic revelation that I feel compelled to implement today.

The highly-qualified Makhesha, who told members she had completed her MBA and then progressed towards a doctorate in business administration, including a stint at Harvard University in the United States, currently serves as a senior executive in the local forestry industry.

Responding to questions, she told the committee she believed the SABC had the potential to be financially self-sustaining.

“[But] they need to go back to the basics.”

The corporation had huge potential. Among other things, what it needed to do was look at all the companies currently not using the SABC for their advertising.

“And sell to them, don’t wait for them to approach you.”

I simply cannot believe that this fundamental principle has “escaped” me for so long.  I am going to go out tomorrow and…

1.) SELL TO PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT MY CUSTOMERS!
2.) PROFIT!

Because it has a message. And it’s intelligent.

Whilst I love Jack Parow, and Die Antwoord for the fun they are and the fun they create — it’s going to take a lot for them to make my heart sing, feel, and emote like this song does.

Just came across an old archive of movies, and recordings from my Tribes2 days, and yikes. I’m surprised that nothing has really matched it (ok, left4dead was pretty cool).

Tribes2 was simply the ultimate in fast paced, free space motion, fps action, team play. And if you wanted to be a simple engineer doing (important) menial repair work — it had a place for you too.

This was all shot by Yavor from real ingame footage.

Yavor rocked with movie making. As did Tribes and Tribes2.

I guess my question is — why hasn’t anything really reached this kind of scale, and action ? I mean, it is 7 years later after all..

*sob* I need something decent to play.

So, this is pretty much what my day is going to look like on February 11th 2011.
I’m the guy running down the passage….

I got my golden circle tickets. Do you ?

So, a while ago (like three months ago), I got an email from Joe to beta TrustFabric.

It looked a little like this:

from TrustFabric
to rodent@rodent.za.net
date Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM
subject TrustFabric Alpha Invite
mailed-by li41-197.members.linode.com
hide details Oct 19
Hi,

Joe Botha has invited you to join TrustFabric.

To join the TrustFabric Alpha service please follow this link:
http://www.trustfabric.com/?invite_code=….

If you like TrustFabric feel free to invite your friends via the Invite page.

Please keep up with TrustFabric news:
Blog: http://www.trustfabric.org/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TrustFabric

————–

Welcome to a new way of thinking about personal information management.

TrustFabric simplifies the admin in your life. It’s a safe and easy way to
selectively share the personal information you are required to share.

During the sign up process you’ll be asked to chose a TrustFabric
Identifier (TFID). Once you’re signed up you can create documents,
establish relationships and control who you share your information with.

We’d like to hear your feedback on:
* Usability
* Features you’d like to see

Please note:
This is an Alpha version, it can break or go down. We’re aiming to add
features every month from now on, so it will probably be down for upgrades.

Have fun.

Regards
The TrustFabric Team

The conundrum, or my memory fails

Today, I was trawling my (mostly unread) personal mailbox and came across the invites, and thought: “Hey, let me try this TrustFabric thing” — Joe’s been blogging about it a lot!

So, I cannot recall whether I actually clicked on the link or not (my longterm memory is handled by my mail client and browser password agent).

But the invite link is now dead, it just takes me nowhere. And when trying to login with my usual credentials, I get a simple “Login Failed”, with a faint reference to retrieve my password.

And I can’t recall whether I gave TF my details or not, or actually registered. (Typical user conundrum).

The invite link (http://www.trustfabric.com/?invite_code=xxxx) just displays the usual site without any additional information like “This invite has already been used”, or anything useful. In fact it appears to be a bog standard redirect to the main page.

So, I tried “password retrieval”. When prompted for my TFID I just hit my email address, which apparently doesn’t work. And my cellphone number either.

So, here’s my conundrum. Am I registered ? If at least the invite link told me that I’d already used it, I’d have been reasonably sure. Right now I don’t whether I registered or not. I also don’t know where to go from here, or contact to do anything. I’m lost. I got an invite. But it’s either invalid, or expired, or I never used. I also dunno how to fix this…

Either way, I have no idea of finding out what my TrustFabric status is.

Note to web 2.0 people — If you send out a link, that may persist in an email for years, or months best you make sure that it continues working or displays something useful. An HTTP link with query string arguments is a CONTRACT. Dont’ BREAK IT.

Joe. Whip.them.programmers.some.more….

And HALP!

Update

Apparently my invite was used, and my TFID is NOT my email addy but my Nick. Thanks for the help Joe!