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Who are the lucky folks that have fire places at their homes?

News24 reports:

A 50m fishing trawler has run aground at First Beach in Clifton, Cape Town on Saturday morning, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.

“All people on board at the stage are safe, but with an incoming tide that may change,” spokesperson Craig Lambinon said.

The Japanese trawler was about 20 metres off-shore in the wave-line and rescue efforts were in progress.

Cheers to Dylan and Mark for supplying the photographs!

Sooo, no rain, but it looks like it’ll be a good weekend to be on the couch.

What’s everyone planning on doing?

We raced down to St Elmo’s, ordered some pizza’s, checked in and showed the manager the check in – “Sorry, they did something like that at head office perhaps, but we don’t know about it so you can’t have the free pita” said the manager.. uhm, say what?!

Let’s not comment on the spelling.

This really was disappointing, not so much the fact that we didn’t get a free pita, but the fact that a brand as established as St Elmo’s couldn’t get something as simple as this correct, this post would have been the complete opposite if they’d got it right! *smh*

So, which digital agency handles the St Elmo’s account?

Eat Out The Box, run by Marius, Deon and Nicol, is effectively a take-away joint, but there’s a little twist, their kitchen is a “no fry” zone and they aim to offer healthy, tasty and balanced meals aposed to the usual oil dripping stuff that we all order. Pizzas, burgers, pasta’s and more, there’s something for everyone. Eat Out The Box has a fantastic website, it’s creative, it’s easy to use and the shopping cart integration is done really well – I used my iPad to go through the menu and build my meal – no hassles at all.

Twitter

This is where things get exciting – So, my fiance and I placed an order for 2 burgers as they have a 2 burgers for R99 special going (this includes the fancy burgers btw) and I decided to send out a cheeky tweet:

Just ordered the 2 burgers for R99 from @eatoutthebox – I shld get discount for this tweet to 6500 people :P

— ChristopherM (@ChristopherM) May 6, 2012

A couple people jumped in and someone who follows me actually ordered the burger special right after my tweet. After a few tweets, @EatOutTheBox jumped in with the following tweet:

@ChristopherM Thank you, we have loaded a 20%Disc on your next order, please tell us if you enjoyed yr Hangover and Chicky Chicky #Burgers

— Eat Out The Box (@EatOutTheBox) May 6, 2012

Tell me that that isn’t absolutely awesome? Not only did they reply timelessly, they engaged, knew my order and even gave me a discount on my next order! #brandplus to Eat Out The Box, you’ve set the bar incredibly high for other take-away joints, I’ve got your number on speed dial now.

I’m really impressed.

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Who’s looking forward to winter?

Zinio calls itself “the world’s largest newsstand and bookstore”. It sells thousands of magazines in digital format (and I’ve found, often at a significantly reduced rate compared with the hard copy alternative). You can read your mags on your tablet or your PC, online or downloaded to read at your leisure. Each magazine has a set of formats it’s available in, so check this before you click the “buy” button. If you prefer to read your content offline, Zinio has its own digital reader you can download. The reader works as a library, much as iTunes or Windows Media Player does with your music. It stores your content and “plays” (opens) it for reading.

Here’s a screenshot of the site:

Zinio’s selection of magazines is impressive, to say the least. One drawback is that some international titles are not available in South Africa (the site tells you this when you try to check out).

Vist the SA Zinio shop at za.zinio.com.

Have you used Zinio? What was your experience?

This is to confirm that George Kiewietz of New Metro has kindly agreed to a co-operative effort between New Metro and the communities of Harfield Village and Kenilworth in order to collect and clean up all the rubbish on the railway line, between Kenilworth Station and Bell Road on 22 April from 11am to 2pm.

We are asking New Metro to provide at least 2 security personal to patrol the lines to ensure that volunteers keep a safe distance from the tracks and that they provide black refuse bags – we estimate about 150-200 bags and that they provide an area where the bags might be deposited so that they can then dispose of them.

We are asking community leaders and the media to get the word out and rally up as many volunteers as they can and to be there themselves if at all possible, everyone to come dressed in sensible closed shoes, a bright orange/yellow/white vest or Tshirt and armed with rubber gloves, hats, sunscreen/rainjacket and a cheerful face as well as some water for drinking. We are asking anyone with petrol weedeaters to bring them along please with security goggles. The meeting place will be at the corner of the parking lot on the Harfield side of Kenilworth Station.

Will all community leaders and the body corporates of the complexes along the line please contact Gail Brown to advise on how they will be able to assist and if they have been able to raise a small confirmed bunch of voluteers and a wider bunch of maybes. Assisting will be in the form of handing out black bags – showing people where the dump area is, assisting with keeping people off the tracks and cheerfully encouraging everyone. For the flat complexes we will be very keen to have brooms and broom handlers to sweep up along the outside of the fence once the weedeaters have finished.

We will meet at 11am, black bags will be distributed and you will be told where to put them once they are full. We will be asking that the line be cleared in sections starting from Kenilworth station and moving down. Will anyone with weedeaters then move in once the rubbish collectors have cleared a section and trim where needed.

We are hoping the weather will hold and will contiune with the event even in the face of light drizzel. However if the rain is pounding down we will postpone for another day.

So, come along and help keep Harfield Village clean!