Briget from BecauseIcan has started a new initiative.  You see, basically her car is breaking down and due to financial constraints of the recession, she can’t afford to buy herself a new one.  So she’s come up with a mathematical calculation that works out to 500 people paying R260 each.  This will enable her to get brand new wheels.  Already 9 people have signed up, that only leaves...

Johannesburg, South Africa, March 4, 2010 –The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that The Sims™ 3 Ambitions Expansion pack* is in development and will launch in June 2010. As the second expansion pack to The Sims 3, the best-selling PC game of 2009**, The Sims 3 Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that...

For many years I’ve grown up hearing jokes about Martha Stewart.  References to her uses in the kitchen.  Vows from housewives the world over to be “more like Martha”.  Well all of those things could pretty much stab themselves in the eye with one of her rusty teaspoons because it looks like she’s just received a running, jumping, glittering twitslap. Tweets streaming in...

For those of you still wondering how Pocit works, here are easy steps to paying: 1)    Receive the “Nerdies request” on Pocit 2)    Go to www.pocit.mobi to download Pocit and register 3)    Open the application and select to pay the “Nerdies” payment request 4)    Either pay from your credit card, or add your bank account details to pay immediately 5)    Call Pocit call...

Thank you to everyone who helped by spreading the word and taking part in our auctions.  We’ve raised a total of R5178.74 on bids alone, not to mention the pledges by finalists who are donating their own amounts for nominations received. You have a choice of paying these amounts through Pocit, which is highly recommended.  Unfortunately they are not compatible with iPhones yet though but if you’re...

It’s been three weeks of mayhem.  Some of it was hairy, most of it was fun.  We’ve raised a good amount of money for Wet Nose and have been lucky enough to gain some really cool sponsorships for prizes. I’ll be tackling the auction run this weekend and will hopefully have a round up of who owes what early next week.  For now though, I want to tell you a bit about the finals. As...

In the final stages of The Nerdies 2010, 10 bloggers around South Africa have been selected to be part of a sudden show down to readers across the country to win some pretty cool prizes in the form of an online treasure hunt.  Up for grabs to the first three lucky treasure hunters: 1 years subscription to Connect Magazine, courtesy of Hypertext Media A Springleap T-shirt of awesomeness a Poken...

It’s no secret that there’s been a bit of a controversy regarding The Nerdies this year.  Maybe it was my fault, relying on PollDaddy.com to be a good enough platform for the votes in our final round, but maybe it wasn’t.  Maybe it was a few geeks with egos too big for their own liking which possessed them to turn this fun competition into a mud-slinging match. When I created The...

Mike from Ionian Enchantment emailed me a few weeks ago to ask where all the science nerds are, and to be honest – I hung out with the cheerleaders at school, I’m a complete noob when it comes to all things nerdy, so I couldn’t actually answer him. Other than listing a few sciency-type personal blogs that I read from time to time [like this one] I didn’t know where to start...

Firstly, thank you all for your patience. It’s been a winded stretch this year, and thank goodness for it or I wouldn’t have been able to cope with the huge response we’ve had this year. Click the links below to vote for The Nerdies 2010 winners: Girls Guys I’m very chuffed to see that last years winners Cow_grrrl & AndreVR are both in for the running again. ChrisM and...