It's strange how some people are just destined to be a part of your life. You may lose contact with them for years, but your paths are bound to meet in the future.

While watching a show on YouTube, some conspiracy theory about a one world government and chip inplants for all humans, my eye caught a name I was familiar with in the response videos. Curious I clicked through only to find a person who I thought I would never be able to contact again ... Warwick Harris. I could not believe it. That is the second person, long thought lost, who I unexpectedly encountered on a social website. Man you got to love the internet.

Warwick and I go back to days of study and had shared some wild party times together. Back then he was studying fine arts and I see he has kept up his passion for art. Back then his work was, shall I say, not my taste. But looked at his more recent creations over on SouthAfricanArtists.com and am amzed at how his work has improved and martured with age. Warwick still seems to be the same person I knew and liked so well all those years ago. Crazy, wierd and always on the search for something, dunno what, but will tell you when hefinds it. I guess all artists are like this. Guess they have to block out all logical thought in order to remain creative.

Anyway, it's great to be back in contact with Warwick and I look forward to keeping my eye on his work to see whether I can find something to add to my art collection. Who knows, oneday his work may be worth a fortune.

Today I managed to get my first video blog up. I've been working on this for awhile. A video blog that covers the property news in short videos, under two minutes each. This site is built with Wordpress, My first excursion into using Wordpress. Can't say I am very impressed with Wordpress yet, but then perhaps it's just because I've not been using it that long.

So, from here on in I will be blogging the property news in South Africa, perhaps a mix of international news, over at the Property News Blog website.

The reason I've decided to use video, even though it means more work for me, is that it's an easy way to get the news across for people in under two minutes. It's amazing how short people's attentions spans are. They have to read so much that if presented with a choice between watching a video and reading some text, they will choose the video.

That said, for those who do want to read, the vlogs will be followed by text transcripts that will contain links to the full stories. Just so that if people want more, they can link through to the full stories..

I'm still trying get myself accustomed to being infront of the camera and some of the technical issues of video production do present a learning curve, but I am happy with my first production and that it is a pretty good quality effort for an absolute beginner.

Well instead of tell you all about it here, take a minute to watch the whole video on the  Property News Blog site. I'd appreciate any feedback.

Today, John Becket and myself came to an agreement that the Ardent Property Investor Community website will merge into the Property Investor Network website. Ardent has been running as a free forum for property investors since 2004. The site has done well but has not expanded in scope beyond just being a great forum. John, wanting to deliver greater value to the Ardent membership has agreed to merge his site with the Property Investor Network.

This is great news for myself and even greater news for the community of people interested in property investing and wanting to learn more. John will be joining the Property Investor Network and contributing his wealth of knowledge and expertise to the community while he continues his studies.

John has been a pioneer in the online community with respect to the property industry. As an investor and estate agent he has a wealth of information and value to add to the Property Investor Network.

For Ardent members. I would like to welcome everyone and hope that you will find the Property Investor Network community to be as much a home as was the Ardent community. I am sure that all of the Ardent members will add great value to the Property Investor Network community and that they will derive greater benefit from the broader scope which the Property Investor Network offers.

Remember the browser wars when it was Netscape vs. Internet Explorer. Well that was ages ago in Internet time but today there is a new war on the rage. The social networking sites are battling it out to keep people engaged in their social network.

Checkout this video that describes it and is helluva funny.