Sony PSN Hacked!

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Posted on 27th April 2011 by Tony in Random

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For anyone and everyone with a Playstation 3, and connected to the PSN network, you may take note that PSN has been down for over a week – pretty serious stuff for Sony, but not as serious as the news which has been confirmed: The PSN network has been hacked, and personal data from the network has been retrieved, which includes Credit Card information. This is quite a PR disaster for Sony as their PSN network has a few million subscribers.

If you’re on the PSN network, take some care to change your password, as well as linked accounts (like gmail, facebook, skype) and keep an eye on your credit card statement for any fraudulent activity.

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First National Bank rises to my challenge!

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Posted on 6th April 2011 by Tony in Random

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Today I am truly humbled by my bank. I have always been a big supporter of First National Bank. Their bank fees are low, their service is incredible and their online community is very helpful. But today they have blown me out of the water.

It all started when I made a donation this morning of 14 pairs of shoes to the BobsForGood foundation. It’s an incredible charity, set up and run by Bob Skinstad, to give shoes to under-privileged children. Incredibly, there are more than 7 million children in South Africa who have never owned their own shoes.

After my donation, I decided to challenge First National Bank to match my donation. Here’s my tweet:

A while later, this is the response I got from Michael Jordaan, the CEO of First National Bank:

Unbelievable! Who ever said twitter was useless? Ha! This is such an amazing opportunity to see the lives of 2300 (plus my 14) lives changed! I am incredibly excited. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think that this would happen!

Well done to everyone at First National Bank – from one very humbled client.

 

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Are you a Late Night Operator?

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Posted on 11th March 2011 by Tony in Random

It’s 1:30am over here in Sunny South Africa. Well, not now, since now it’s 90 minutes past midnight and we’re certainly not that far South as to have 6 month days!

I’m sitting at my desk doing all sorts of bits and pieces for my clients when I thought about a meeting I had this morning with a new prospective client. She told me that she is also most productive at night.

Mmmh. Now I ask myself, are most entrepeneurs productive at night? And what is it during the day that makes you unproductive, and during the night that makes me productive?

For one, at night I don’t have skype/googletalk/MSN/mirc/email/phonecalls/sms/twitter/whatsapp bothering me (yes I have all those options available during the day!)

Also, it’s real quiet in the area – I can pretty much only hear the waves crashing on the shore – and that gives my mind time to think. And in my line of business I do need to be creative.

So are you a day person or a night person?

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