I love advertising. Is North American advertising becoming too boring? This is an advert for a telephone company Vodafone in South Africa, while the rest of the world is trying to claim the fastest network and most accesible with Facebook and Youtube applications, other countries highlight on how things have been since before the time of 3G technology. So I guess it’s okay that I haven’t upgraded my iPhone because at the end of the day, I’ve been having it!

It’s taking some time for the news to digest, my hero, my idol, the first musical love of my life passed away yesterday.

Due to not having a TV the news was slow to reach us. In a twisted act of fate, a friend and I had been discussing the life of Michael and what the future held for him. Morbidly, we joked about the next step of Michael’s being death.

I regret this conversation.

I can’t help but feel like we killed him, but that is just nonsense. It has been a long time coming, of course no one stays alive forever and i’ll be honest, I had been bracing myself for this about a year ago, but you’re never really prepared I guess for such news.

Michael Jackson has always been a fixture in my life. I remember days when my sister and I would spend hours watching and recording Jackson Marathons on TV, teaching ourselves how to moonwalk or beat boxing to the intro of Stranger in Moscow or trying to be Smooth Criminals in our pajamas, hyped from watching performances of Mr Jackson.

Michael Jackson taught us about the rhythm of the beat, the passion that flows when music moves you and not only what it means to be passionate but also what it means to be strong in the face of adversity.

My mother would hunt down every magazine store for special Michael Jackson magazines that were only available at select times. I won’t gush and say I was his biggest fan but you see Michael Jackson was a phenomenon that in many ways brought friends and my family together multiple times. Michael is a common interest among over 10 million people. There is no other and there will be no other moonwalker, beatboxing, black or white musician who can do what Jackson did as a musician, producer and performer.

My heart goes out to all the fans, my sister who’s hurting and the Jackson family.

Play a little Michael today if you can.

Links

Stranger In Moscow Video

Every morning I wake up to…crows. Yeah, not a rooster or a melody from my alarm clock, not even from the neighbours going down the stairs in the early morning. However, it turns out, there’s more to these birds than meets my headache every morning. I’m not sure if I’m intrigued by this video or slightly disturbed.

According to The Global Language Monitor, on June 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am, the English language saw its one millionth word officially added. But this wasn’t just some random word like “N00b” or “Slumdog” (both of which were considered). This word is causing some whispers. People like myself were quite surprised when they found out what the happy new was. Are you ready for this? The 1,000,000th word added into the English language is… Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a technical term meaning the next generation of World Wide Web products and services. It has crossed from technical jargon into far wider circulation in the last six months

You have got to be kidding me. Come on now, Web 2.0? For real?

For real.

By the way. The Global Language Monitor states that a new word is created about every 98 minutes (14.7 per day). Word number 1,000,001… “Financial Tsunami”.