On my trip to Cape Town last week for the Premiere I was fortunate enough to have timed it to coincide with the Silicon Cape Networking event, the Netweb Event and the 27Dinner. However my timing sucked in that I missed the biggest party in Long Street, Cape Town by 5 days!

At the Netweb event I met Fraser of Absolute Magazine – a hip luxury metropolitan lifestyle online magazine. He liked my matchstick business card, and when the one matchstick Movie went live, he and Warren listed it in the magazine.

They got double the amount of views in the first day of the movie listed in their magazine, than YouTube got. So they challenged me, saying they bet they'll get more views than YouTube. Ooohh!

I'm always up for a challenge, so I took them on! We're going to see which listing of the onematchstick movie has the most views by midday Friday 11 December:
The local Absolute Magazine listing OR the YouTube listing.

So help me out. You decide where to view the onematchstick movie, and either go to Absolute Magazine (and I'm not going to help you with a link here to the page to make it easy) or, even better, go and be a true fan to ME and view the listing on YouTube here by clicking here so I win this challenge (I've made it quite easy to go to YouTube here to see the YouTube one matchstick movie - just with one click here you'll get there- easy peasy). And while you're there watching it quickly (it's only 4:51 mins), leave a comment or rating :)

Also let your friends know about this challenge, and get them to choose (the YouTube listing here, of course!)

;)

Thank you!

There's only 24 hours left to save these 16 lions!

I wish this was an Aprils Fools joke, but it isn't. Unfortunately the caring people at SanWild have run out of funding and can no longer take care of these rescued lions needs. The lions also could not be translocated because permits could not be issued. So unless people come together and take action, like they did for Earth Hour, these 16 beautiful lions will be "euthanized'.

You can read more about this on SimonB's blog, or just take action and make a donation directly into the SanWild account:

SanWild Banking Details: ABSA, Danie Joubert Street, Tzaneen, SOUTH AFRICA. The account number is 9111221180, Branch Code 334349, Swift Code ABSAZAJJ, Iban Code ZA632005.
Please user "Blog challenge" as your payment reference.

Lions are close to my heart. They are African, just like me, and also they are the brand of matchstick's that are part of this trading journey I am on.

So I've taken up SimonB's challenge for a number of reasons – what will be your reason for taking action and help save these lions?