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I was sent this email and thought is was very, very appropriate.

Rumshot is a screen capturing tool that dolls up the images for you. I am impressed by this tool but struggle to see the great value. Possibly if you are not using photoshop or any other editing tool then this might be worth while. Cool to play around with though.

typorganism is an extremely interesting site that has amazing design and playful “games.

There seems to be some sort of intelligent reason for the site to exist but it’s a bit above me. Maybe someone with a bit more brain power can tell me. Check it out.

I can never get back the time I have wasted at Sandton Vodacom trying to fix their rubbish.

I hate Vodacom.

Today First National Bank (FNB) lost a me as a client forever.

I have been using an FNB Smart Account for seven months. The last 30 days (Holiday period, december, no work etc) has been slow and thus I made no great use of my account. I drew out money and was left with R35 in my account. I thought that this amount would be OK. Not so much apparently. This amount was quickly taken from me after Saswich charges and service charges from FNB for the use of my card. I was then left with R1.80 in debt.

My account was subsequently closed because of R1.80. I was not warned, I was notified and I am never going back to FNB. Ever.

Sometimes I shout. Sometimes I laugh, but most of the time I feel the need to get out of my car and crack a taxi driver over the head with some road sense.

Today I just laughed.

This is a picture of a taxi that pulled in front of me from the far left lane of a three lane road to turn right. I was in the turning lane. He looked and me and smiled. I cracked up and took a photo. What A beaut.

Yes, I am stuck.

This morning I was forwarded a url to an article off the moneyweb blog sites. Mr Clive Simpkins has written a fantastic article about the wonders of our Prez Mr “Denial” Mbeki. Simpkins has a wondrous way of placing idle banter amongst phenomenal discussion and intricate thought.

Give this article a read and let me know what you think. I was very, very impressed by his discussion, opinion and style of writing.

Thanks to the gents at Chumps for this one: Glogspot has ripped off just about every known blogspot blog and used them as porn fronts.

My personal glogspot (www.shutterview.glogspot.com) represents a porn site providing ebony loves for lost souls!

It’s amazing what the guys at Chumpstyle stumble upon late at night while surfing porn.

I am struck by an overwhelming sense of urgency in my business life at the moment. Not only is there this urgency but there is also a sense of being in over my head. I am hoping that this feeling will pass and that I will manage my growing work load.

Things to do this week (Tomorrow):

• Edit and produce St David’s Old Boys newsletter (Marist MOB)
• Go to FNB and ABSA to sort out my banking and my pay from Freelance Job #1 (FJ1)
• Get final touches done on three stories for FJ1
• Begin Production on various stories for Freelance Job #2 (FJ2)
• Send in Graduation form to Rhodes University
• Email the student newspaper editors affiliated to Studentwire.net (one of my online projects)
• Continue the relentless work that Courtenay and I have been doing on the production of our next online project (total of 9 hours work today alone)
• Register my company as a Cc ASAP
• Register various products and names under a copyright license
• Fix Phone (D900)
• Complete Medical Aid change
• Research new business project in “real world”

I am understandably feeling pressured. But I think that this is the way that I like things to be so I am definitely not complaining.

So after much thought and many confused looks on my face I sought help. And help I found in the form of Mike and Rafiq. I asked Mike for some assistance and while he thought he was of little help he asked Rafiq to drop me a line who not only helped me but did it without even looking at a PC!

I am happy to be the happy moron in this case as I am guessing that there are others like myself who overlook the little things in life and create much trouble. Rafiq, you were right, an 0mmitted “www” sorted me out without a second attempt necessary.

And with that shutterview is no more (in a manner of speaking) and 3jobblog is born, again.

I officially completed my first puzzle yesterday and documented it! The weather in Umhlanga has been up and down so we prepared and brought along a puzzle.

Here it is:

I know, I know. I’m on holiday by the sea but I am blogging. I have an excuse: Jen is studying so I gave her the room alone without distractions.

I noticed that my blog has not been up since I tried to change the URL on Friday morning. So I have changed the URL back to shutterview for the meantime but have left you all with my new blog look, direction and feel. I know this is another redesign but I promise it will be last.

I hope that things get sorted out soon. Check out my flickr account for photos of my trip. I will be blogging about issues and things when I get back on Saturday next week. Have a great week.

All the changes have been done. Everything is in place and now I wait for Google to pick up on my url and pray that my DNS settings have worked out OK.

I have changed my template. I know that I changed my template a couple of months ago but I think that it is necessary when obtaining a new url to obtain a new identity. So I have.

The blog is more sleek, darker and more interesting to look at. It is also a lot more accessible in my humble opinion. This will be the last blog template change for a long time as this has detracted from my actual work. My actual work included designing the St David’s Old Boys newsletter today as well as designing a couple of logos for a company and doing an interview for the Sunday Times.

So that’s it for now. I’m on holiday now.

P.S: the new blog is called 3jobBlog.

It’s time. I am going on holiday tomorrow and it is time for me to make the move to nicharalambous.com.

After much thought and many decisions altered. I will be relocating my blog and renaming the theme of it to 3jobBlog. I will be altering the discussion slightly and will be talking more about my experiences as a working freelance journalist, an entrepreneur and a social person with a girlfriend, family and friends.

I hope that this all works. If it doesn’t this post serves as a warning that things might not work out!! If they don’t I will be back online on the 20th of this month.