David Donde's Ramblings, Thoughts on Coffee, Cars, Marketing, his time on Talk Radio, or just plain top of soapbox rants and raves
Friday September 3rd 2010

Cars

BMW X1 the 4×4 that will never

Share I am seemingly eternally faced with a recurring dilemma, why on earth would a person want buy a four wheel drive [Read More]

Range Rover Super Sport

Share First published @ http://www.motormag.co.za/ Range Rover Sport is another one of those four wheel drives that are [Read More]

VW caravelle 2.0 BiTDI 132kW DSG

Share First published @ www.motomag.co.za The thing about space, is that you never really appreciate it until you [Read More]

Cool Stuff

Seen a Literal Video yet? you have to!

Seen a Literal Video yet? you have to!

Share The best introduction to the absolutely hilarious Literal Video concept, the song “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” will NEVER be the same again: Bookmark on [Read More]

Branding

the sound of one hand clapping: world cup redux

Share So the dust has settled and unsurprisingly, those with cash register eyes are [Read More]

Branson Loses Virgin?

Share Once upon a time there was a lord, and the lord owned all the Virgins. Even though [Read More]

for the price of a cup of coffee…

Share how much should a great cup of coffee cost? an interesting question. From a [Read More]

Random stuff

The law of unintended consequences and why it is expensive and hard to get decent entertainment around here

Share So here is the idea, in order to protect us South Africans from ourselves and unscrupulous corruptors of our minds (don’t we wish,) we get an organisation called [Read More]

Wit

Politics in SA Redux via Zapiro

Share This explains evolution Mzanzi style: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [Read More]

Eruptions on Iceland

Eruptions on Iceland

Share in bad taste alert warning: 1. It’s a bit early for Iceland volcano jokes. We [Read More]

The best legal defense I ever read

Share I have always loved Groucho’s letters in defense of a legal attack on them. [Read More]

Coffee

the Horror, the Horror, Instant facts:

the Horror, the Horror, Instant facts:

Share I seem to regularly get asked about instant coffee in South africa, as if I have a clue on this topic. At least these guus sent me some facts: FACT-A-DAY Chicory blend 18.2 million South African adults drink instant coffee daily. The most popular brand is Ricoffy, [Read More]

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain

Share What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain. LifeHacker rocks: What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain For all of [Read More]

price fixing in the coffee world

price fixing in the coffee world

Share I wonder how prevalent this is internationally? http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9G7MSC00.htm BERLIN⁠ [Read More]

so Starbucks are coming to town. Do we care?

so Starbucks are coming to town. Do we care?

Share It is official: The thing is, do we give a shit? Branding? Starbucks is the master, but in my opinion Vida is more [Read More]