World cup fever

The World Cup comes to Africa for the first time ever this year, and with no less than six African teams taking part, we at Computers 4 Africa thought it’d be a good idea to have a look at what’s going to be happening in South Africa over the next few weeks, and what it means for Africans to have the tournament hosted on their doorstep.

We will be running a series of stories throughout the next few weeks, examining each of the participating African nations in turn, as well as following their games as the tournament unfolds. We’ll start with the host nation, South Africa, who will be hoping for a win against Mexico when they kick off the tournament on Friday if their hopes of reaching the knockout stage are to be fulfilled. No host nation has ever failed to make it past the first group stage of a World Cup so far, and South Africa is certainly hoping not to break that that record.

October- so far

Another month nearly past and another lot of computers coming through our doors and some very exciting progress made. The last week has been mainly spent talking and thinking about the marketing budget and discussing vitally important issues like- what makes us keep a pen, who looks at their mouse mat and whether pictures of children picking their noses are amusing, cute or just wrong.We got a new stand for exhibitions which has already been put into use as Faith and I travelled up to London. We had a lots of fun, met some interesting peopel and took some lovely photos. We also called the office to check in a few times which lead to some hi jinks but that is a tale for another time...
Have you all booked for Christmas meals yet? I have picked my work meal, its one of the nicest traditions along with secret santa, but somehow I always feel that thinking about it prior to December is premature but post October is too late.. Oh well

Desk wrestling

This week in the office we have been desk wrestling, mainly Ida and myself, but also a certain amount with Lydia. Lots of this is caused by the appalling musical taste of my colleagues. Each member of our team has varied tastes and is given a couple of hours a day to play music on last FM. Despite initially aiming to be fair, we have moved away from this with people hogging the radio, with some people taking over for the full 20hrs that they are in the office, naming no names, obviously (it's Ida). Desk wresting involve general irritation & pushing but also a little sabotage (pressing esc is a favourite move).
We are also saying goodbye to Lydia (aka Tarka the otter) who is deserting us for more exotic climbs (11,000 miles away in New Zealand). During this week from her planning alone we have learnt about US visas, where to get good strappy tops in September and what sport sandals are (essentially trainers with holes in) and why anyone would want to buy them.
We have also trying to get Faith married off. Faith herself is not adverse to the idea. We spent 15minutes on Thursday teasing her about it, then burst into giggles as we realised that someone had overheard some of our conversation.