Dateline: Luanda, June 8 Once Google announced that it was about to launch G-Mail (A 1 gig e-mail service), mailers and bloggers have been in a frenzy. What made it worse was the Google announcement that a test run would be initiated with mailers chosen by invitation only. Let me tell you, those invitations (selling for quite a sum on E Bay), are becoming as sought after as Brad Pitt's last cigarette. In fact, children from ages 4 up to grown men and women (1 gran in her 80s),are beggi...

I really fluffed. I had wanted to paste my latest MERNEWS article into Joeuser (The Iraq thing), and I ended up posting many articles at once. I'm sorry. MERNEWS is one of my hobby blogs and it contains comments and editorial reflection on the current news. I would like it to grow a bit before exposing it too much (if it growsat all!). You are probably asking: How does MERNEWS get its news? Well, Reuters would not consider us, or SAPA or USN. But we do have our resources. And our editorial...

We all know how the marketing companies use the internet for sales talk and image boost. Can't blame them. Why miss an opportunity! We also know that we can blast pop-ups with our blockers . Now there seems to be a new thing happening and it worries me. Example: I am Googling away (e.g. Airliners.net), and the sites come up as they always do . Then I click on Airliners.net in the Google page and up comes Devlin.com, a non-related site with links to sex sites. Click on a sex site and you ge...

Wow, did I get a shock last week. You know how we are all so net-savvy with our blogs and mails and downloads? Well, we are. We're part of the internet revolution and if it wasn't for us Joeusers and others, Blogs would not be held in such high regard. But, but. There are sections of the business community who need to learn a few things. Listen to this: I lost a parcel, an important parcel which had been sent from city to city. The eminent company, a big one--no names, no packdrill---ha...