So I am a generally inquisitive guy and I have a few profiles online but some I have never shared as they are new. I thought you may enjoy some of the platforms for your own application. Here is where you can find me:

Twitter is where I share news and happenings. Give me a follow.

Facebook has it’s own Urban Ninja page. Or is that the other way around?

Posterous is where I place arbitrary photos and clips. I am using it less and less and am finding I am enjoying Tumblr a little more.

Tumblr is my newest toy. I am treating it as an inspiration-only-no-ads-platform and keeping it as simple as possible.

Pinterest is something I have been playing with for a bit, basically assembling a pin board for future houses I want to own, places I want to travel and inspirational quotes. Oh, and awesome dog photos.

Work is where I spend the most time. I work with an incredible team of people. We build incredible systems for some of the best clients in the world. I am excited to walk in the door here, every morning. I have worked here for a year now.

Family farms are quite a thing and ours is especially fantastic. The focus is quality, patience and having the zen to wait that extra year for the product to be perfect, not only drinkable. We are drinking `06 vintage now and will continue to age gracefully with this place, just like the vines.

So that is really where you will find the bits of me all over the place on the Internet. A bit of a boring post, I realise, but perhaps you find you have a passion which suits one of the platforms – twitter, tumblr, pinterest or something else – and perhaps you start your own piece of real estate and who knows, perhaps you discover an incredible hidden talent and you change the world somehow…

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As the people in my close circle noticed in the last week, I have a new phone I am stuggling to put down. Nokia SA are getting involved with bloggers on a more regular basis, and I am hoping they will see value in the site and the way we are doing things for the Urban Ninja ROKThis Project and that we could add them to the roster for 2010.

So after a unsuccessful first review of another phone I had almost lost hope, but then the wonderful Olga suggested I try the new N97. I was hesitant, to say the least.

I was wrong.

This phone has been amazing. With the Nokia PC Suite, I was able to upload my contacts in 1 click, from an Excel file. With 4 clicks, my email was up and running. I have a few accounts, and they all work well on the phone. The internet is fast (3.5 HSPDA), and the best part is the desktop, which very much like the CMS which runs this website, works with Widgets. I have a twitter, facebook, email, weather widget on the desktop, so its all 1 touch access.

Oh, and its got a bigger hard drive than my first laptop 32 gigs, so I can store all my music, and use my killer Sennheiser earphones with them, so that while on the bike I can handle calls, and listen to background music, to keep the legs going.

Nokia Maps worked first time to get me to a location to drop some Kleinhoekkloof Wines to a lucky client, and all in all, its great. Battery life is about 2 days, which is great for the amount of time I use the phone, and the 5MP camera takes amazing pictures, like this one.

I`ll give it 2 more weeks and then give a full review, but if you are in the market for a phone right now, I am not saying get this one, but at least consider it.

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Il mostro, PUMA’s Volvo Ocean Race sailing yacht, finished their maiden Volvo Ocean Race, “the Everest of Sailing”, in second place on 27 June 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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The Volvo Ocean Race is a 37,000 nautical mile (68,524 km) round the world adventure and is one of the world’s toughest sporting events.

PUMA’s eye-catching sailing yacht “il mostro”, the innovative PUMA Sailing Collections, the innovative marketing initiatives launched at the numerous stop-over ports, PUMA City and the successful performance of the PUMA Ocean Racing Crew generated extensive media coverage that more than offset PUMA’s investment in the Volvo Ocean Race.

PUMA used the 11 port destinations of the Race to activate complex onshore marketing strategies. PUMA used every single race location – Alicante, Cape Town, Cochin in India, Singapore, Qingdao in China, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway in Ireland, Marstrand in Sweden, Stockholm and finally St. Petersburg – to not only position PUMA as a Sailing brand, but to convey PUMA’s overall brand message, creating visibility for other PUMA categories through media and star-studded events. Such activities have set a new marketing benchmark in the growing sport of sailing. At the same time, while the sport of sailing is often perceived to be very exclusive, PUMA aimed to break down this misconception. The PUMA Ocean Racing campaign has successfully begun to broaden the sports’ audiences, with an inclusive, fun outlook on the sport.

The Volvo Ocean Race was the perfect platform to launch the PUMA Sailing performance and lifestyle collections and reach new target consumers. PUMA launched a full range of nautical inspired apparel, footwear and accessories, from offshore sailing gear to onshore lifestyle fashion.

One of the readers of this blog, a certain Paul Kaye commented on the start, and the finish, of the Volvo Oean Race this year. Kif that!

Awesome eh. I got suckered into some Sailing Performance Gear yesterday as well. Check out my Posterous account to see what I mean.

Posterous is a great way to have a mini-blog, with pictures & videos. So, keep checking my Posterous account for updates on some more intimate pictures about what’s going on in my movements. Its quite similar to my Twitter account, but instead of 140 characters, its pictures and sounds.

Bye!

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