Why does facebook think I'm gay?

For a while now I've been considering facebook and their ads. For a site which collects far too much information about people... why on earth isn't any of the information used to at least target me with relevent ads? Here's the latest, a gay dating site using the facebook flyer, (which to be fair is super cheap and you wouldn't expect it to be targeted.) But come-on... interested in...women!!!

(P.S. Ladies as you can see from my dashing profile, I'm both incredibly good looking and single.)
(P.P.S. The black thing on my cheek comes off, and the baby blue t-shirt no longer exists)

Deezer.com- A new era in music

A couple posts ago I wrote about Blogmusik.net

Well they've gone completely legit and renamed themselves Deezer.com. I can't stress how cool this service is.
I was lucky enough to meet the owner of the site yesterday and I will be working with them with regard to their UK activity in about 2 weeks time. I'm super stoked!
When Deezer goes mainstream and comes up in conversation the way that facebook does (are our conversations that boring that we have to fall back on facebook rather than the old faithful, "so how about this weather") I will be able to non-chelantly say... "Yeah I work with them ona couple things"- Man I'm cool! (Quietly calling myself a dork in my head)

I have been slowly growing my Deezer playlist ( Widget--------->) and discovered some wicked new artists. When I eventually get organised I'm going to start using the widget to let my dedicated reader (note lack of plural) know some of the music I'm currently tapping my foot to.

Man I'm cool......... (Dork)

So near....

I know I have been neglecting my blog recently, however there have been a lot of different things going on recently.

1.) Failed attempt at a relationship.
2.) Start of a new relationship. Shoo that was fast!
3.) Technical issues getting first site launched... (Super frustrating)
4.) New job, which is going well.
5.) Facebook takes up a lot of my internet time which would've been dedicated to blogging.

I'm currently seeing an particularily cute Zimbabwean girl, who makes me smile a lot and laughs at my jokes... even when they're not funny! Score... you know you've struck gold when this happens... especially if you've heard my jokes before.

TASS Online is having some technical issues at the moment as we try and get the site live. I'm not the most technical person but it's got to do with the database not being supported by our hosting company...which sucks! Otherwise, we have started planning site no.2 codenamed tazoo, and the initial spec should be completed by the end of the week. I'm very excited about this site as it is something that I have a lot of experience in, so I'm really confident it will be a winner. Initially it was going to be launched in SA only, however we have found a new way to launch it in the UK without it requiring too many man hours.

New job is a cracker, and I'm learning a whole bunch of new stuff about a part of the online world which initially I thought I knew about, but now realise I had no idea. This role is a lot more creative than many of my previous roles, and it this aspect that i am enjoying most at the moment. However I still have some way to go before I have a firm understanding.

Facebook... ahhh... how many hours have you devoured! Having just cracked the 200 friends mark (Man, I'm cool...do you wanna touch me!) I have got back in touch with a whole host of people I went to primary school with! Hectic! People have been posting pictures from Grd 2, and I have quite enjoyed trying to remember who all those little kids were... and are now!

It's a long weekend this weekend in the UK, and I'm really looking forward to a good lie in on Monday, especially seeing as there will be a fair bit of partying and working on TASS. Also looking forward to being able to talk about rugby again! (Single tear...trickles...down...cheek...sniff...so close!)

26 days.

Not a lot to blog about at the moment. Had a really chilled weekend. A mates Birthday drinks on Friday, spent all of Saturday watching sport, and caught up with family yesterday. It was good to have a relatively booze free weekend, it really leaves you refreshed for the week to come.

A reminder that the nominations for the SA Blog Awards 2007 end today, so if you haven't already done so go and nominate now. If you click on the button on the right of this screen it will automatically fill in the nomination form to nominate me! ;)

TopOf should be finished by end of play today, and I'm really excited to get my hands on it to have a proper play around with it. On that topic, I have giving some serious thought to launching TopOf in South Africa. We originally decided against it because we didn't feel that the SA market wouldn't be suited to it. However over the past week or so I have been messing around on FaceBook and realised that the uptake has been excellent by people in SA. It wouldn't take much tweaking to get TopOf running in SA, however we would need someone on the ground to run it. So that is definitely something we will be looking at further down the line once we have got things up and running in the UK.

Eradicating frustration.

Right...so...

Today is all about getting rid of the frustrations I have at the moment.

I have solved the issues with the web developers, (nothing a bit of cash couldn't fix), and I'm making good progress sorting out the issues with my job. The weather is of course out of my control, and by merely understanding that it is no longer an issue.

I have become hooked on FaceBook and it is proving to be an excellent distraction. Already I have managed to make contact with an old mate whom, I knew was is London, but up until now I haven't been able to track down. It has also proven useful in announcing my impending arrival in SA, (in 30 days, yes I'm counting in days), and being able to let people I wouldn't normally bump into know I'll be around. I find the FaceBook like a million times better than MySpace which IMO is utter rubbish. I wouldn't consider them to be like for like services, but for my purposes it solves a lot of problems which MySpace inherently has.


So today is problem solving day... wish me luck!