Archive for March, 2009
I recommend Loot.co.za for online book purchases
Mar 30th
I regularly buy books online. It’s much cheaper and often easier than buying books in stores. The best site for buying books online in South Africa is Loot.co.za. Definitely better than Kalahari.net.
I still browse book stores all the time. This is my process:
- Find interesting books in a store. Take a photo with my phone to remind myself later
- Look up all interesting books on Amazon to read reviews
- If I want a book add it to a wishlist on Loot.co.za
- When I have a few books on the wishlist I put through an an order
This process helps to ensure that I get great books. Using Loot ensures that I get EXCELLENT prices. I highly recommend these guys – they run an excellent operation.
Price
Until recently I would always shop around the find the cheapest prices before buying books. I soon realised that was a waste of time – Loot is always the cheapest. Every single time.
Take my latest book order. I saved R116 (about 20%) by ordering through Loot.co.za!
| Item | Kalahari | Loot |
| Out of Africa (Karen Blixen) |
R173 | R113 |
| A History of South Africa (Leonard Thompson) |
R153 | R140 |
| The pig that wants to be eaten (Julian Baggini) |
R105 | R93 |
| Tales of the Unexpected (Roald Dahl) |
R105 | R93 |
| Overnight delivery* | Free | R8 |
| TOTAL | R563 | R447 |
Delivery
Loot has several delivery options and they stack up well against Kalahari. On my last order overnight delivery to me costed R8! Post office delivery is normally free.
I’ve had no problems with deliveries from Loot.co.za
Disclosure
I highly recommend using Loot.co.za. In the process of writing this blog post I found that I can get vouchers for referring Loot. I thought it only reasonable to disclose that if you click the Loot.co.za links in this post (and make an order) then I’ll get a R8 voucher… Trust me, that’s not why I wrote the post.
National Geographic visions of the Earth
Mar 25th
Each edition of National Geographic Magazine has a section called Visions of the Earth – basically a collection of great photos from around the world.
I was looking over some of the older ones and was blown away by some of them. Here are a handful of the best.
This one was taken with the lens half submerged. If it wasn’t from National Geographic I wouldn’t believe it was real. I’m still skeptical…
This is one of the best photos I’ve seen. I had to read the explanation to understand what was going on. It’s taken near sunset in the deserts of South Africa. There is a massive sand dune rising in the sunlight in the background.
Alligator claw. Awesome.
There are many other excellent pictures, but I restricted this post to three that I really liked.
Devils peak fire – a little too close
Mar 18th
Last night was pretty exciting/intense. We woke up at 01h30 to hear sirens outside. I got up and went out onto the balcony to see what was going on.
Chaos!
There was a huge fire raging on Devils Peak behind the house. The police were driving up and down the streets using a loud-speaker to tell people to evacuate and move away from the fire area.
Cars and people were streaming down from the higher blocks. There was stacks of smoke blowing down the hill and even burning embers landing in the street.
We cruised around for a while but the smoke was too hectic to stick outside for long. At one stage it looked as if the Western most of the Disa Park towers might burn down.
Thank heavens the fire fighters managed to beat the flames off and by this morning the choppers were making sure that everything was out.
An exciting evening indeed.
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