<– This is what happened to 70% of the applications for a junior web designer position that I recently advertised on Bizcommunity.

Over and above the fact that the applicants who’s CVs managed to make it to the recycle bin did so because they didn’t have the necessary skills, weren’t residing in the right province, weren’t junior enough or generally didn’t fit the criteria, there were some common errors made by almost all these applicants that could have cost them the job even if they did meet the criteria.

I am a freelancer, there’s no HR department here, I got seriously frustrated with the quality of applications (not necessarily applicants); so what do you think your chances are when you’re up against hordes of other people applying for the same position at a larger company with an HR squad that doesn’t have insight into the position offered, just a checklist that should include these points: (more…)

Google have added four new themes to the already awesome list available for GMail … gotta love it – here’s mine

Top Score 8-bit Theme FTW

It is no secret that the USA has a vested interest in Africa and that there is a lot of talk about social responsibility and even more questions as to how they are going to clean up the mess they made by exploiting the African people for minerals. Most of this stuff is just politics and PR (and not the point of this post).

Uncle Sam is getting serious about Africa and is using social media channels to drive initiatives and spread the word … most of us are oblivious to this and even more couldn’t care less about trawling the internet for information related to this topic; but what if you could aggregate this information? Planned visits to African states, speeches, tweets, photos … Yes We Can! (more…)

I suppose that, by now, most of you have read or at least heard about this post on the WordPress Blog. If you haven’t; it deals with Matt Mullenweg‘s (Matt is that WordPress guy yes) appeal to the Software Freedom Law Center to clarify some issues/answer some questions around the GPL and WordPress themes conversation. (more…)

Now, the PC vs Mac debate has been raging for as long as there have been Macs and PCs around and there will never be a clear winner … at the end of the day it comes down to personal choice. Do I buy into the Mac bling or do I stick to value for money/bang for my buck? I have been buying PC simply because I tend to upgrade every two years and I have some pretty decent suppliers that make sure I get really good value for money – the equivalent to my laptop (HP DV9600 17″ Wide Core2Duo @ R17,000) will cost me about R13,000 more (for an equivalent Macbook Pro) or the equivalent to my desktop running AMD Phenom 2.6GHz Quad Core, about the same margin (for a Mac Pro) – so for me a Mac is not an option … sorry. This is, however, not quite the main focus of this post. (more…)