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Jailbreakme is all the rage right now for setting your iPodTouch free. It’s a one-click app on your touch safari browser that might not work if you are an international user of the touch. I am and it didn’t.

I had to use the iJailbreak Itunes hack for Mac. This hack is incredible for various reasons, one being the 13 year old boy who created and broke the entire “Jailbreak” concept. Stunner, he’s 13, can you say loser complex over here?

Anyways on to more important things:

Hacking my IpodToch (IpT) really wasn’t as tough as almost every flipping guide made it out to be. You know what I did?

I dowloaded this software from the wunder-kind’s page. I then proceeded to follow some or other stupid guide centred around the kids software and eventually found the Ipod Touch Fans support forum. This forum is the be-all and end-all of everything you need that is touch orientated.

From there I found this video:

I followed the video and wham, bam, spank me man, it worked. Too easy.

I can now check out the weather in JHB, check my mail via the app, without connecting to gmail through safari, write and email notes via the touch, I have an etch-a-scetch and many other things. Oh, I also located my house on Google maps…Incredible.

Do yourself a favour and try it out, if you feel uncomfortable just restore your touch or iPhone to original settings and you are back in business.

How to restore your iPod Touch:

1) Connect the iPod Touch
2) Press and hold sleep+home until the device reboots.
3) Keep holding until that “please connect me to iTunes”-screen appears
4) iTunes says something about having detected a touch in recovery mode. Allow it to do its thing.

If you get the -18 error, proceed:

5) Disconnect the iPod Touch
6) Close iTunes
7) Reconnect the iPod Touch
iTunes launches and shows message as in step 4, but this time, the recovery will work

There is a list of working iPhone apps for the iPod Touch here.

If you have any questions or concerns ask away, I can’t promise an answer but I will try.

I don’t give a toss that “Tom” lied about his age. Not. A. Single. Toss.

Apparently this is newsworthy stuff according to Newsweek.

I love the Cherry sites. All of them. The man sees a niche and he guns for it.

The latest addition to the Flava arsenal is The Cherryflava Show.

The content of the video is great, it is centred around a social butchery. Simple concept for us bloggers. Social meaning many people involved, butchery meaning meat. Easy.

So basically Cherry goes to Mzoli’s and experiences what a community shop is like. One shop contributes the boose, another the bread, a third the cutlery or anything else that you need and then Mzoli’s provides the meat, the braai-ers and the rest. You pay, you sit, they braai and bring. Simple, social, effective.

And it works.

The CherryFlava TV show works too. Jon Cherry and Heinrich Hattingh do a great job at hosting the show and keeping it interesting. Productiopn is great as well as the backing track.

If you got a second, check out the show now:

Wow, this is scare and brilliantly put across. Brilliant.

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I have quite enjoyed watching Zoopy’s extensive coverage of Helen Zille over the past few months. But today for the first time I found myself questioning their coverage.

Why is it that Zoopy covers Zille so extensively? Why is the coverage not more representative. I am sure that Jason is going to come on here and tell me that they have covered Patricia de Lille too, but that really doesn’t count as extensive.

Just as the SABC is pressed for equal representation I think that an organisation such as Zoopy should be too. If nothing else, they need to be weary of aligning themselves subconciously with a party. It appears to me that this might already have happened…

This comes directly from the Zoopy “about us” section:

Who’s behind it all?

At Zoopy HQ it’s just the three of us, for now: Jason, Gerry and Pat. And a few carefully selected contributors.

Hmmm… carefully selected, sounds intersting, lets find out more.

I emailed Jason from Zoopy to get some comment on the issue and see if this is a definite trend that is to continue or an incidental happening. This is what he had to say:

Thanks for giving Zoopy some blog space – and on such a relevant topic too. It needs to be said that we’ve personally spoken with Ebrahim Rasool, Jacob Zuma, Trevor Manuel and indirectly with Patricia de Lille. None of them have responded in any way. Helen grasped the technology available from the first meeting we had with her and her team. They have a handheld video camera with them and have chosen to upload a range of political and non-political issues, ranging from aerial shots of a dam through to her new electric car and more. She responds in person to users who send mail via Zoopy and those who leave comments on her Zoopy profile.

There are also occasions when we’re out at events that she happens to be shaking hands at, or attending, and in those cases we upload any relevant footage ourselves. So really this is not a case of us showing favouritism toward any party or individual. It’s a case of the individual getting involved themselves, and us facilitating it as much as possible. We’d love to host social media relating to every South African on Zoopy (politicians, lawyers and bloggers included! hehe) and always promote the possibilities when meeting with interesting people.

That said, there are more high profile people going Zoopy very soon. Because of the technology, functionality and community available to them. Not because of who they are or whether or not we believe in their cause.

I think that is fair and valid justification of their stance. I wait with anticipation for the “high profile” people to get involved with Zoopy. Let’s see if this becomes a case of YouTube and CNN joining forces for the next American election.

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I have been struggling lately with a bit of internal strife. I am a thinking man. I always have been. I think alot, all the time, non-stop, about everything.

My latest mind-bender is whether great men (and women) would be great in any era or context or was it there social background and influences that moulded them?

Please don’t tell me that it’s a mixture of both, that nature and nurture both apply in equal amount. A spoon full of sugar doesn’t make the medicine go down. I want an answer. I have an answer in my head but it keeps becoming null and void as this week as progressed.

Let me explain what I mean by great men. Firstly the reason that I don’t refer to great people is because I am a man and I relate to great men moreso than I do to great women. Margaret Thatcher, Mother Theresa and others were and are still great women and human beings. But I want to focus more on men like Ghandi, Mandela, Richard Branson, Mark Shuttleworth, Bill Gates, Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe, Biko and others.

These men may not all have been good men, but they were all great. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist just as one man’s greatness is another man’s failure.

But it is undisputable that Hitler was a great leader. He had the entire world fighting against him. That is greatness. He was not a good man, and was in fact an evil man, but great nonetheless.

My question is this: Would these men still have been great if things in their lives were different? If they had loving parents, if they lived in Mexico instead of Germany or were wealthy instead of poor. If Branson was a trust-fund baby would he still have had the drive? If Ghandi lived somewhere that promoted equality instead of segregation would he still have been great? If Mandela was white would he have helped to end apartheid?

I personally believe that these men are great and would have been great irrespective of their surroundings. I firmly believe that great men are great and are destined for greatness be it evil or good, rich or poor, greatness prevails.

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Thanks to Andy for pointing this one out.

Just so you know Andy, I don’t subscribe to alerts for myself (or at least I didn’t until you blogged about it) and I found your post in my feeds!!

Here are the mindless lyrics that Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas wrote:

Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
I got it from my mama.
I got it from my mama.
I got it from my mama.
I got it got it got got it…

If you pretty, make some noise.
If you pretty, make some noise.
If you pretty, make some noise.
Make some noise, make some noise.

This is the biggest load of shit that I have ever read, heard or listened to.

This dude really pisses me off. “Music” like this really pisses me off. Notice the immense repetition in the song lyrics? That’s thanks to lack of formidable writing skills. Will.I.Am definitely isn’t much, of anything really.

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I have been watching an incredible expose on christians and the extremist christian warriors forming in the USA. Christina Amanpour takes on the leaders of these sects in various religions, not only christianity.

God’s Warriors is the title of the series. If these little children, teenagers and cooked up parents are the warriors then I want to know who I am battling? Is it them?

On to Ron Luce. I think that in the series it noted that he has a school, a bible school on 42hectares of land. His students pay $650 per month to be at this school.

Ironic his name don’t you think, Luce? Short for Lucifer? Interesting.

Anyways, I digress. Luce, let’s call him Luce, he charges these kids to attend his school where they can’t listen to any secular music, watch any rated movies or programmes and cannot read anything that isn’t approved. That is scary isn’t it? I think so. I also think that it is shocking that Luce has provided each student at his school with a computer and headset and asks them to sit, everyday, and preach the word of his lord to anyone they can get hold of on the phone.

That sounds incredibly to me like slave labour. Hell, it sounds worse than slave labour because at least slaves are paid. These kids are paying to be his slaves.

Throughout the entire programme on CNN there was a distinct lack of parental presence. All that I saw was young children shouting about the word of the lord, angrily fighting with gay people in San Francisco, violently protesting for their beliefs. I think it’s great that these kids are involved and believe in something. But I am vehemently against brainwashing of any sort. These kids looked brainwashed.

I cannot believe that anything this propagated can be good for anyone, for children, teenagers or adults. In fact, religion has done nothing for our world other than to create wars that have lasted centuries. Palestinians and Jews, The Crusades, US war on Iraq and many others. All inherently religious based wars. Where is the good?

Now we are roping in our youth without giving them a choice or an alternative. This scares me, the Battle Cry and God’s Warriors scare me, it is all very worrying.

Can anyone tell me why on this Earth we put people like Britney, Paris, Lindsey, Pamela, Christina, Tara and other ridiculous popstars in the public eye? Why?

I can’t understand it. Watch the video below and then tell me if these idiots should be on TV, selling music and themselves:

In today’s day and age it is imperative to ensure that young people around the world have figures to look up to. These girls are not it. Definitely not.

The South African rugby team are idols, heroes and men worth admiring. Grit, guts, determination and pride are things that we should be looking up to and admiring. Not drunken spells of abuse that lead to temporary stops in rehab.