New Home of Gripe Water Needed - DONT FORGET!!!!

http://gripewaterneeded.wordpress.com/

Dont be shy to post some comments and ask some questions! Would love to help solve your gripes or inquisitiveness even!

New Home of Gripe Water Needed - DONT FORGET!!!!

http://gripewaterneeded.wordpress.com

Dont be shy to post some comments and ask some questions! Would love to help solve your gripes or inquisitiveness even!

MOVED TO A BETTER PLACE!!!

GRIPE:


I just couldn't handle blogspot anymore!

GRIPE WATER:

you can now find me at http://gripewaterneeded.wordpress.com

Blogging, Commenting & Stupidity - YOU HAVE TO READ THIS! If nothing else makes you laugh at someone else today, THIS WILL!

Ok, so we/I have a problem!
1. I have a blog that i like to write on and have gotten REALLY into.
2. I like to change the theme of it and experiment once in a while.
3. I want people to comment.
4. I AM A BLOODY STUPID IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I AM ACTUALLY COMPUTER LITERATE WITH MICROSOFT & CISCO QUALIFICATIONS!!! (thats what makes this worse!!!)

GRIPE/S:

1. Theme changing... So i like changing my theme every no and then, but what i didn't know, YOU HAVE TO then go into customize, layout, edit HTML and then click on revert widget templates to default to activate your COMMENTS again! (thats the part that may save your life from pure embarrassment in the blogging world!)

2. So, with that said, i wanted people to comment. Which I'm sure they were wanting to do and may want to do, BUT COULDN'T!!!!! why...

3. BECAUSE I AM A BLOODY IDIOT! and now also an VERY EMBARRASSED IDIOT!! why........

I decided to blog about not commenting, and have a go at my fellow bloggers and so on...
Meanwhile people where obviously trying to comment, but couldn't!
They may have even thought my blogs were decent or crap and had some advice!
I even tweeted that 'I don't know why people bother blogging if no one comments... you may as well keep a personal journal!' Hahahaha! WHO IS THE WALLY NOW!!!!!

I gotta say though, i am very sad with Google for making it that complicated (should you not know how to get your comments working) to get your comments working!
After all, NOT everyone is COMPUTER literate! (nor am I now clearly - hehehe)
To top that off, unless someone you know tells you, there is NO WAY of people reading your posts and on realizing that they cant comment, telling you that they cant comment!
believe it or not google, not everyone blogging actually see each other face to face or have their email addresses.
With that said, Google, you rock and have, in a way, thought of that by been able to show your email address or even let people put it in their profiles so people can see it.
however, most people don't really go into the profile of a person till they have maybe been following that blog for a while or really wanna know more about that person.
Again though, most people would also not want their mail address known or shown either.

Google i know you are innovative and so on, so throw me (a inquisitive ADHD nutter that feels things that even you, the might Google do, can be done better) and other non literate COMPUTER special kids a bone here!!!!

Yes, you have had your hands full pulling outta China, but this was an issue before that ;-)

Why is this my gripe and such an embarrassment and issue...

Because for not 1, but 2 days, my post STILL NO COMMENTS OR VIEWS and POSTING ON MY BLOG has been on Amatomu's All Blogs WHATS HOT list!!!!!!! 
HOW GODDAM EMBARRASSING!!!! NO ONE LIKES BEING MADE TO LOOK LIKE A FOOL! AND BY THEMSELVES! (if i am brutally honest)
But gotta say, as i write this, i am still in stitches!!!!! Its actually hilarious!!
Part of me however wishes that i could crawl under or into one of the termite hills i saw at Shamwari on the weekend! Wouldn't care if they ate me either! :-D


GRIPE WATER:

1. Start a blog
2. Write on that blog.
3. Change whatever you want on that blog
4. (very NB step) TEST THAT EVERYTHING IS WORKING

5. (and most importantly). YOU WONT MAKE A MUPPET OF YOURSELF!!!!

Google please note though: What i said above about the GRIPE of blogspot, is very real!
Today alone i spoke to 5 people that had that vert problem!

Here is 1 idea that may help you:
Put a note window at the top of the layout/edit HTML page that says, don't forget to click on revert widget templates to default
Give me the job and I'll even do it for you... FREE OF CHARGE!

Summed up: GRIPE = Me & GRIPE WATER = Me!

All sorts of lessons, but at least i can laugh at my stupidity, and thats what made this whole mess up worth while!

Hardspear : cheers for the encouragement and stuff! Big up to you!

STILL NO COMMENTS OR VIEWS....

SERIOUSLY????? COME ON.....

POSTING ON MY BLOG!!!!

Ok, so i have a little GRIPE

WHY THE HELL IS NO ONE COMMENTING ON MY BLOG???
except Mark (once) and Briony (3 times) oh and hardspear (twice).
We have this as an assignment people of BBM3!
I have tried commenting on other peoples. I have even set up accounts!

GRIPE WATER

Simple really, please comment :-D

Back from the bush

Well i was away from thursday last week, so wasnt able to update.

Would you believe that, i couldn't even update in the bush!

they actually had NO signal there, except for on this one hill about 2k's from camp! and thats where the cheetah was, so i wasnt going to walk there and hang about!

So hardspear got back to me wioth some great advice on my blog and getting feedback etc.
he said to comment on other peoples.
NOTED, and thanks. from today i will be commenting on other peoples blogs. i will start with his, seems fair!
anywho...
what about a gripe then...

GRIPE:

Well to be honest, i dont really have a small medium or large gripe. if anything, i do feel that someone needs to create a safari experience aimed at the SA market in price range and to still get that special experience.
Kruger is not an option before anyone says that!

i mean the actual luxury safari experience. they are all SO expensive here and its just seems unfair because its where we all live and its our heritage!

i mean its taking private reserves to sort out and save all the issues the empires caused here with hunting!

does that not seem strange to you, that we, as south africans, are trying to fix the wild life system, but then we aim it at the foreigners again???

i'm sur ethere are a million and one south africans that would love to show their kids and even themselves see an elephant up close, or lion etc...

yet, at the CHEAPESTof R4000 a night, it is out of most south africans grasp. so they stuck with the kruger, which dont get me wrong, is AWESOME, but also pot luck and the wildlife has been know to be rather dreary looking at the best of times!

so how can we have a more affordable way for the natives south africans that would like to show their kids a not TB filled dreary looking buffalo??

GRIPE WATER:

Well i think that this is where the government should be getting involved in nature conservation and not just at kruger! actually working with the WWF's of the world and getting the eco system running nicely. erradicating TB in the animals up north, by using land inthe eastern cape to start reserves and diversify the gene pool.
while doing thios also have camps that are well priced and let people see animals in better shape and thriving. they can even be moved to the kruger once they are in top form and the kruger will start looking amazing!
I know its not as simple as that, but they can try, surely?
they the government! they can re-zone land if they need to, and if its for a good cause, who is going to complain?

Well i hope that you all get to experience a safari. it really is the most awesome thing and no matter how many time you see the same type of animal, its always facinating!

PS. i won our trip in a golf day.... I'm a student, i dont have R8000 for 2 nights! you mad! and this is what i mean of seeing awesome things up close! you just dont get this at kruger and the animals are in no where as good a shape unfortunately!

THIS IS BRILLIANT - YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!!

BRILLIANT!!!!!
Heineken Italy pulls off a GENIUS activation!

UPDATE TO hmmmmmm post

I recieved this from Hardspear (thank you for answering with an idea).
Hardspear said...


Move to Jo'burg

March 17, 2010 11:12 AM
 
HARDSPEAR I LIKE THAT!!! NO mountains = NO Wind! GENIUS!
So wheres lunch then! :-D

Ahhhh R15 Million.....

GRIPE:

So, R15million.... Thats 15 with 6 of these 000,000!!!!!!!!!!!
What doesthat mean to you?
Yes, thats right, it twice the amount of R7.5million!
But wait, there's more.....
THATS WHAT ITS COSTING TO KEEP JZ's WIVES AND ALL HIS CHILDREN (LEGIT & ILLEGIT!).
Total people support: Wives = 4 & Kids = 20

What is going on here???

Its TWICE the spend of last years allocated budget & 5 times the alloation of 5 years ago!!

Will anything happen about this? I somehow doubt it!
Things are starting to spiral here! are they not?
All we need is a Zim to happen here, and by what is going on and JZ obviously feeling that taxpayers money is his personal wealth and bankroll, who is to say it wont become Zim? After all Uncle Bob makes full use of the countries money and so does his wife!
This is not ok and really nauses me!

What is really funny, JZ is in Zim now as a mediator... Or is he there as a mediator?
Uncle Bob and him are probably having a huge laugh at the tax payers expense!
JZ is probably getting tips on how to get the money & send the money!
Mrs Uncle Bob is probably telly Mrs JZ (all of them) how to spend it too & where in Pars is a good place to shop!
PISSES ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Afterall can I get married more than once? With that said, who the hell would want to??? 1 wife is WAY more than enough!

Guess i could say JZ has a sense of humour!
Back to he point though... last time I checked polygomy wasn't legal here... Just like the rastas say the can smoke weed cos its their religion, so JZ can say it is his heritage and custom...
WELL I SAY BOLLOCKS!
If the rastas can still et arrested for weed and its very much their religion, why does JZ not get punished for having 4 wives?
Surely?????

Anyway, think some Gripe Water is needed here:

This is not the easiest thing to remedy or even answer... So I'll try...

I'm thinking that someone needs to actuallysay something. A task force gets set up or a even a law!(which i am already aware is in place re polygomy)
What happend to the age old saying 'whats good for the goose is good for the gander'?
I say, be happy with what you have, sure you can have drive to succeed, but why take from people when you haven't actually earned it!
He is not exactly Robin Hood and robbing the rich to feed the poor, he is robbing everyone... Rich and poor to feed his rugby team (including the reserves)!
JZ, if you read this, remember... YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW!
In life, what you do to others they will do unto you!
Just remember too, that yo would have pissed off alot of people here, rich and poor and remember they putou were you are...
But hey, good luck to you and lets hope you don't cock it all up!
Final thought and your Gripe Water Mr President....
THINK SYSTEMICALLY!!!!!!

hmmmmmmmm

Gripe:
THE WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Gripe Water:
IF YOU WORK OUT A CURE, I WILL BUY YOU COFFEE AND LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
ARRRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WINDS (you like that play on words??) ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST

THE INVENTER AND CEO OF BLACKBERRY IS RIDING THE ARGUS!!!!!!!!
His name: Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis and he is Canadian... Don't judge!

Gonna run back to the highway with a possible solution for him!!!!

See you next year Lance (i've just heard you coming back).. I will lmake sure that either my Blackberry has the new software i have spoken to Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis about or i will change my settings!
Better still i will bring a video camera! hahahaha!

The Argus & Blackberry

Well i was up at Stupid O'Clock this morning for 2 reasons...
1. Anna woke up and was hungry.. time check: 5:45
2. I wanted to the the Argus and... gee guess who... The Knight of the round table... Sir LANCE-a-lot!!

So then, whats the Gripe for Sunday:

Well, I love my Blackberry! Blackberry's are the nuts! I had one in 2001 and never looked back till i got back to SA in 2006...
Then about 2 months ago i got the new 9700! GREAT PHONE!
Till this morning when i could have cried!
I go watch the race, wait for the night of the round table and the tour de france...
The phone is set to video camera...
I start recording...
I introduce my daughter to the world of cycling...
I explain to her she is about to see another legend (apart from uhhhh ummm ... me? - well to her anyway!)
I see lance... (I know he saw me too- HAHAHA)
I cheers Lance...
he says cheers Sean back... (free to dream!)
I stop recording...
I then try look at the footage...

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not saved??????????????

But how????

I turns out that it is set to only record up to 32Mb... You have to change it to more...

The size of the video i recorded.... 45Mb...
Wait for it...........
SO IT JUST DOESNT BLOODY SAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Gripe Water:

Well i am by NO means a genius, a world leader in innovation and technology, but...
HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO MAKE THE SOFTWARE SPLIT INTO SEPERATE FILES WHEN 32MB IS REACHED (should you have not changed the settings to record to bigger amounts)..

Really, it cant be that hard!!!

So RIM, the legendary makers of Blackberry devices, when you read this blog (again, free to dream), please take into account the idiots (me in this case) & the non-technical (my wife, lots of my friends, most of my family, most people reading this - nothing personal), and perhaps make the software split video files when the limit is reached!

Many thanks in advance,

Sean.

PS. Here is Anna's first Argus and the great sunrise on a windy Cape Town morning! See I'm not always grumpy and have finished this blog entry on a positive! :-D

Earth Hour 2010

The bloody world coming to an end!!! Nothing big then....????




Now this is something we should all get involved in!

GRIPE WATER:

Well this is it, turn off your lights just for an hour! Make a baby or something or imagine you with someone else! i dont care what you do, but its damn well worth doing!

Let the blogging begin...

Welcome one, Welcome All.

Why a blog?

As an assignement for my subject New Media, we have been briefed to start a blog. So, this is the start of that blog - DUH!
However, as we are doing some subjects like Innovation, which includes concepts like design thinking and systemteic thinking, and Brand Stategy, which inludes brand blueprints & different analyses (to name but 2), it made me realise that I can use all those things in one to create this blog and give it something to be worthy of a read! Things that can help break those gripes down to the basics.

Well thats the theory anyway!

So what is this blog going to be about?

This blog is for any, some and all the gripes or problems I and anyone else see's or hear's of day to day. Its also for things we may use day to day that I or anyone else feels could be better, re-designed & even re-invented!
from little things that you wonder 'why they are the way they are' to 'how does this public service even stay in business'.
Of course there will also be a bit of this and a bit of that thrown in, like current affairs, adverts, business punting and other fun stuff!

Method behind the madness?

Much like Gripe Water gets rid of gripes for babies, so we need a gripe water to help us daily with things that may be annoying us.
Same with the silly daily items, services & products we may use, that we feel could be made better.
With this blog, I hope to help answer those day to day gripes & confusions that I, personally have come across , read about, heard about either on the radio, TV or friends or recieved from people on by comments on this blog or over email.
The idea being that I too have a bitch and moan perhaps, but also try to find a possible resolution, solution & even a piece of mind for myself or whoever it may be annoying.
Check back daily for new gripes, answers and comments on the day to day things that you may not have thought annoying, or even never use but realise can be changed and or need to be sorted out!

Mail your gripes, questions, confusions, pictures and things you may have seen to seanstack@me.com and I will look into them and answer them asap!

As mentioned above, of course there will also be a bit of this and a bit of that thrown in, like current affairs, adverts, business punting and other fun stuff! Its not all about things that are broke or in need of a change!

Oh and i will also be posting my adverts of the day everyday (tv, print, radio or online adverts).

So let it begin...

This is Hilarious!!!!

As you may well see into the days of this blog, i am quite bias to a certain car brand :-D