To all my loyal readers (If there are any of you): MY BLOG HAS RELOCATED TO http://www.nicharalambous.com.

If you followed the above link and ended up here, please refresh your browser using ctrl+f5.

All comments and posts that are on this site will remain here as a point of reference. Posts have been relocated to the new blog. THERE WILL BE NO NEW POSTS ON THIS BLOG!

nicharalambous.com is moving. I am leaving, I quit, give up and am 100% over blogger. Today I battled my little tush off with blogger and in a fit of rage and a stroke of luck attributed to Mr Hartman, I am almost ready to move over to a wordpress blog. And thank goodness for that.

Unfortunately, this means that I will be going through another design change. This one will be more customized and feel a bit different but maintain some of the look from the current theme. Nothing else will change. I will still be located at nicharalambous.com so browsing will be no different.

Comments, unfortunately will be lost, unless someone knows how to move haloscan comments over to WP without paying the $12 premium fee.

Thanks and keep reading.

Nic Haralambous

Labels: Wordpress

Today Vincent announced that he has a new blog, Money Talks, and it's sponsored by Virgin Money.

The new blog is about banking and in Vincent's own words,

The basic idea is this: I have a baby (also in the pipeline har) due in two weeks now, I know i need to get my personal finances in order and Virgin Money contacted me and asked me if they can sponsor a blog about it. I said “sure, why not? As long as you don;t tell me what to write”. They agreed, so it happened.

Immediately I can hear bloggers tapping at their keys and making a fuss about the influence that a big corporate has on the blogging ethos. Rubbish I say.

First off Virgin is not sponsoring Vincent's regular blogs so there is no direct impact there. Second off, I think, as Vincent says on his new Money Talks blog,

Historically this is a moment of crystallization – all the talk about the legitimacy of blogging as a cultural explosion, and the commercial value of the blogging medium in general, seems to me to have come together. It is a sign of respect for the individuals who make up this community that it is being recognized as a powerful consumer voice and not dismissed as a morass of subjective nonsense.

Good point. Bloggers must begin to understand that money is not the root of all evil, in fact, we all spend our days wondering how we can profit from our passion for blogging. Vincent is doing just that, and good on him.

However, with all of this said, I must ask the question: What if Vince wants to bad mouth Virgin Money? Or Virgin Music, Virgin Gyms or Virgin Airways for that matter? What then? Is this sort of "freedom of speech" allowed in their deal? I wonder? Vincent must believe that it is, otherwise he wouldn't have done it but I have my doubts.

Nevertheless I am extremely excited about the prospects of this sort of deal for the blogging community here in SA. The big corporates have finally taken not of the expansive impact blogs could have on the South African Community. Good job Virgin, good work Vince.

As you might have noticed (and maybe not if you don't visit this blog) I haven't posted since Friday. I took some time off. In hindsight, time off sucks. Screw those people who say I'm addicted to my Laptop and the web, I couldn't care less that I am or if I was.

But I digress. I took the weekend off to relax with my girlfriend, have a braai, be lazy and chill. NONE of the above took place. The braai was interrupted by a monumental misunderstanding on my behalf that ended up with me standing at airport Terminal A2 for two hours waiting for no one. Really, I mean it, I stood there like a proper tit waiting for no one. But it was completely my mistake in the end. Then I return to the braai to realise that the food I cooked was so incredibly tasty that it was all gone (a mixed result in the end!).

So I sit, eat my boerie roll, take out my guitar and start to jam, then a couple of other muso's around start to play with my guitar, we're singing, it gets late, people start to leave and I am left with a mess and sore head.

We clean up that night (Saturday) and all is well in the world, until I wake up that it. My guitar is gone. My wonderfully pleasant, blond looking baby is no more. I can't tell you where it is, I dunno what happened to it, but it is gone. Nothing more to say. *weep*

So in hindsight, it is safe and secure and relaxing behind my laptop and on the web, in future no more breaks for me.

Labels: airport, Braai, guitar

Here is a Zeitgeist from Leon! Thanks man, this was a nice, neat little Amatomu cloud sentence!

Labels: Amatomu, Firemind, zeitgeist