Category: Rants

Discovery Medical Aid Logic Failure

[Update: WOW – A response from Discovery in under 30 minutes! – Colour me impressed! The issue is not solved per se but at least someone is looking into it. Cudos to Discovery] While I am by no means a fan of medical aids in general I have been genuinely happy with Discovery – even …

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Vodacom, iPad’s and Blackberry’s — what is going on here

I hate it when I once again need to tick the ‘Rant Category’ – but what is a man to do when service delivery is less than it should be? So, after much deliberation Apple managed to corrupt my soul and I am now the owner of an iPad! Overall a very impressive device though …

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On Network Fault Finding

<Rant On> Well, its been a rather frustrating 15 hours….. most of this could have been avoided with better interaction of an incumbent. While this is a ‘rant’ post it’s rather meant to show that communication needs to be improved… Around 5pm yesterday we experienced a massive network failure. This started off as an intermittent …

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RICA – Fail

At the best of times I don’t consider myself someone that suffers fools – today I was held to be the fool. I decided to “quickly” pop past the Cresta Vodashop to buy a new BlackBerry Curve 8520 as an after-hours support phone for the Neology support team. After taking one look at the apparently …

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Samsung Omnia’s new uses

Having been a Samsung Omina (i900) user for some time now I have to say that it’s almost as useful an iron as it is a phone. You may ask why I use it to remove creases from clothing – simple, its just always that hot – with the SERIOUSLY outdated South African firmware that …

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