The Property Magazine has just published a list of the top 10 richest people in the world via Forbes.com; here are the top three:

1 .Carlos Slim Helu – $53.5 billion – Telecom, Mexico.

Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico’s national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world’s richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. Net worth up $18.5 billion in a year. Recently received regulatory approval to merge his fixed-line assets into American Movil, Latin America’s biggest mobile phone company.

2. Bill Gates – $53 billion – Microsoft, U.S.

Software visionary is now the world’s second-richest man. Net worth still up $13 billion in a year as Microsoft shares rose 50% in 12 months, value of investment vehicle Cascade swelled. More than 60% of fortune held outside Microsoft; investments include Four Seasons hotels, Televisa, Auto Nation. Stepped down from day-to-day duties at Microsoft in 2008 to focus on philanthropy.

#3 Warren Buffett – $47 billion – Investments, U.S.

America’s favorite investor up $10 billion in past 12 months on surging Berkshire Hathaway shares; says U.S. has survived economic “Pearl Harbor,” but warns recovery will be slow. Shrewdly invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and $3 billion in General Electric amid 2008 market collapse. Recently acquired railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $26 billion.

Read about the other 7 here.

Lol.. I wonder when Julius will make the list :P~

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I’ve been holding some feelings back for quite some time now about Silicon Cape and as much as I feel like blasting the initiative for many reasons, I think I’ll leave them aside for now and hope to see some things change.

My gripe this evening though is that Silicon Cape burst into popularity across Cape Town and caught the attention of many other cities, and basically attempted to position itself as the leading technology hub in South Africa. Being at such a position, one would think that they have depth with their reach and that they would have grasped onto one of the biggest things South Africa’s online world has ever faced – FNB and PayPal coming together.

This afternoon I received an invitation from FNB to attend an event in the upcoming weeks where Michael Jordan, CEO of FNB, and senior executives from PayPal will be discussing how they’re working together to make global eCommerce faster and easier for the South African market.

Naturally, I jumped with joy at the invite, I do feel I should be there as iMod.co.za has played a role in speeding up this entire process, but then something dawned on me – It’s in johannesburg!!! I honestly couldn’t believe it, Cape Town’s like meant to be Silicon Cape and stuff isn’t it, the center place, the tech place?

Anyway, I was told that I would be flown up for the conference, which was really appreciated, the problem isn’t that, it’s that I don’t have the time to fly around at the moment.

I really don’t want to be a sour grape about this, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I am incredibly bleak/upset/let down (call it what you will) that the Silicon Cape Initiative didn’t manage to bag this; and I guess my biggest concern is that Silicon Cape has a focus on money (oh, I’m so phrasing this kindly), so you’d imagine FNB and PayPal would be right up their alley.

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PS. I have been told that there’s going to be an event in Cape Town, but to be honest, if you don’t attend the first one, it’s not really the same.

The website of this week is a site by TigerDirect called ‘Memory Configurator’. You may be wanting to upgrade your computer’s RAM because it’s too slow or there’s a program you want to use, but it needs more memory. TigerDirect’s Memory Configurator site helps you find the right RAM for your computer.

To use this website, select your product type and your manufacturer etc. Once you’ve done that you should get a bunch of results including what type of memory your computer takes, how much memory it can be upgraded to and where to buy the memory. If you are a person that builds computers, then this will be very useful to you. So go check out TigerDirect’s Memory Configurator site over here.

I love brand synergies, so when I heard that Kehinde Wiley (Internationally acclaimed artist) has teamed up with Puma to create several original works of art, it was quite exciting; what’s better, and definitely well aimed at South Africa, is that the pieces of art are inspired by some of Africa’s greatest soccer hero’s.

These artworks will be created in order to establish a limited collection of apparrel, footwear and accessories, right in time for the 2010 World Cup.

Kim Gray is running a competition, which gives you a chance to win a chic and sporty hobo bag as well as lacelets to “vamp up your trainers and be World Cup ready”. Check the bag out..

PUMA recently won an iF design award for leisure and lifestyle, so this synergy doesn’t surprise me.

Naturally, if I win this bag for doing this post, it will be given to my gorgeous fiance :)

This track received the best music video award of 2009 at the IDMA awards..

[Thanks Ant]

Tomorrow, we’ll have had Bella and Calla for exactly one week and the little terrors have grown already and are nawtier than ever, but one thing I can say, they are so amazing and they actually sit at my feet and wait for me to either call them onto the couch or lift them up.

Calla and Bella

Luffs!

The Weilheim-based CarFilmComponents (CFC) is offering a tuned-out version of the Hummer H2, done over in a not-so-subtle “burning chrome” lamination. Yes, the car is actually coated with an adhesive film.

The bonnet is covered in a black carbon film while the side and rear windows are draped with CutLine ThermoTec, one of the many registered trademark materials from CFC, that make them look an awful lot like conventional tinted windows.

The 480 hp (353 kW) H2 comes with massive 28-inch light alloy wheels wrapped in Kumho tires of 325/35 R28 dimensions. There are also the interestingly-named LSD wing doors and a FOX performance exhaust system.

There’s a couch done in a mix of leather and Alcantara and a mini-bar too. From which one can enjoy the massive multi-media system which includes a digital TV, DVD player, and XETEC amplifiers and subwoofers.

There are cameras at the front and back (images displayed on a dashboard screen) for parking assistance. But one may opt to keep this Hummer still and use it solely as a funked-out basement living room.

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Lyrics:

Now Im in the blogosphere, Now I’m in the twitterverse
Fans get so immersed, But I’m a nerd forever
I’m the new Zuckerberg, And since my website
I been cookin dough like a chef servin killa-bytes
Used to be the basement, Back at my mom’s place
Buildin web traffic so that we could sell an ad space
Make way for the, One man businesses
Bail outs finished with, White collar criminals
New sega genesis, Entrepreneur time
Makin big plans, To dominate the online
Yeah, I’m on YouTube, this is one man
Sharin’ google revenue, With songs on my webcam
Science is the new art, Databases day to day
Geeks spreadin’ sheet smarts, Hustle, make the data pay
I could be in Valleywag plus Geekologie
Tell from my avatar, That I’m most definitely

The New Dork,
Social networks – what dreams are made of, There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re the New Dork
This V.C. money is brand new, The geek is now damn cool
Let’s hear it for new dorks, new dorks, new dorks

Catch me up in Techcrunch, Right on the homepage
Hell, I’m on Gizmodo, In a photo bout a phone craze
And Im up in Mashable, weekend trip to New York
Bar pitty, 1oak, parties full of New Dorks
Now I’m pitchin business plans, From the backs of napkans
Micro-lend to Africans, Monetize Kazakastan
Catch me up on linked-in, Dog, C.E.O.
You can see where I be, With the I.P.O.
Now I’m up in skinny jeans, Now a hipster’s lurkin’
Used to be a reject, But now I’m steady jerkin’
Now my glasses mainstream, Now the girlies eyein me
Popular kids copy me, The new swag is irony
Comin’ from the small time, Girls couldn’t find me
Now I scale models, Like I climb on top of Heidi
Start big trends, with tweets that I pass on
You should follow me, cuz I’m friends with Ashton
CHORUS

We’ve heard about cars running on all sorts of things, but coffee? No ways!

Recently, a British team put together a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco that runs of coffee. The car averages 1 mile for every 56 espressos!

The vehicle consumes a kilo of ground coffee for every three miles and is capable of hitting a top speed of 60 mph. Unfortunately, all of those espressos add up to an expensive habit – running the vehicle on coffee costs 25 to 50 times more than running it on gasoline.

Insane!

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When you write posts on Wordpress, lots of revisions are saved and these revisions aren’t removed from the database, which means your database grows in size, which isn’t ideal when it starts getting rather big, this will only result in your website taking longer to load.

Here’s a great query you can run on your Wordpress blog, which will automatically remove all unwanted revision versions of posts:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b
ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id);

Pretty neato trick, thanks go to WpRecipes.

PS. Please backup before just running this query!