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This day in history: 03 May 2026: Three-Year-Old Madeleine McCann Goes Missing (2007). A few weeks before her fourth birthday, Madeleine McCann disappeared from an apartment in Portugal, where she, her parents, and her twin siblings were on vacation. Her disappearance received international press coverage, but despite numerous investigations by several different agencies, young Madeleine remains missing and no arrests have been made in the case.




Home - Outeniqua Choo Tjoe

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Please watch this site for news about Classic Rails’s project to return steam trains to South Africa's Garden Route.




Klepetan and Malena - Wikipedia

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Klepetan and Malena were a pair of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) who became renowned in Croatia for their romantic endeavors. Between 2001 and 2021, Klepetan traveled from South Africa to Brodski Varoš, Croatia, each spring to mate with Malena, who was unable to travel due to a gunshot injury. On ...


A Brief History of the Minimoog Part I

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Follow the life of the Minimoog Synthesizer from its inception through its prolific contributions to poplular music throughout the last 4 decades.In this fir...



Physics wins, hydrogen cars lose

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How many times have we heard that hydrogen-powered cars are “the future”? Well, that future has been collapsing like a house of cards for a…



Frogsicles: Frozen But Still Alive

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The wood frog's body makes its own anti-freeze that allows it to survive the winter. The secret ingredient? You'll never guess.From: CRAZY MONSTER FROGShttp:...





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In the news

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Vibrating pillow sleeve warns deaf sleepers of burglars and fires: A research team supervised by Assoc. Posted on 03 May 2026.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt: This week, n00bdragon takes both top spots in the insightful side. Posted on 03 May 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Mon 04: moderate rain

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 53 %
  • Tue 05: light rain

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 22 %
  • Wed 06: light rain

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 46 %
  • Thu 07: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 08: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 44 %

See next two weeks

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How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO): Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. Posted on 04 December 2025.

Entrepreneurial students win awards for summer work on their startups: Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions. Posted on 01 May 2026.

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Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work: OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech. Posted on 04 May 2026.

‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?: Doing more trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvementsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBy most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. Posted on 04 May 2026.

I tracked 3,000 steps on my Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Oura Ring - this one was most accurate: Just how reliable is that smartwatch or smart ring? I tested three of the most popular health trackers to find out. Posted on 04 May 2026.

Is this the real face of Anne Boleyn?: A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced. Posted on 01 May 2026.

AI robot tech bros dogs run wild in Berlin gallery: In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose — courtesy of American artist Beeple. Posted on 03 May 2026.

Make Your Own Micro Forest: The Miyawaki method plants dense mixes of native trees and shrubs to rapidly regrow small forests. Posted on 03 May 2026.

A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs: For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Posted on 03 May 2026.

A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous: Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators. Posted on 24 April 2026.

Look at the trees: A reflective essay about driving with the author’s dad to a bakery, noticing a stretch of trees on the route, and the way simple repeated moments can still feel meaningful. Posted on 04 May 2026.

OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App: "Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable," writes Engadget: OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. Posted on 04 May 2026.

China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet: The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging. Posted on 29 August 2025.

'Sacrifice zones' around critical mineral mines are rife with pollution, child workers and birth defects: The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating 'sacrifice zones' that harm water and health of world's poor. Posted on 03 May 2026.


Some of the tech in my workday

Best programming language?

The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.

The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.

w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.

While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.


Longer term weather forecast

Cape Town weather

  • Mon 04: moderate rain

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 53 %
  • Tue 05: light rain

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 22 %
  • Wed 06: light rain

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 46 %
  • Thu 07: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 08: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 44 %
  • Sat 09: heavy intensity rain

    11 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 24 %
  • Sun 10: moderate rain

    10 ° - 14 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 89 %
  • Mon 11: moderate rain

    13 ° - 16 ° Wind 20 km/h / Clouds 83 %
  • Tue 12: broken clouds

    14 ° - 16 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 67 %
  • Wed 13: overcast clouds

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 94 %
  • Thu 14: sky is clear

    14 ° - 19 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 15: sky is clear

    16 ° - 24 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 10 %
  • Sat 16: light rain

    18 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 84 %
  • Sun 17: light rain

    17 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 28 %
  • Mon 18: scattered clouds

    17 ° - 19 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 31 %
  • Tue 19: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 20 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 99 %