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Today's quotable quote: Richard Bach: Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

This day in history: 05 November 2026: Publishing Magnate Robert Maxwell Dies Mysteriously at Sea (1991). A Czechoslovakian Jew, Maxwell fled to the UK during World War II and joined the British army. After the war, he purchased publishing house Pergamon Press. The company's success helped him win election to Parliament in 1964, but a 1969 financial scandal cost him control of Pergamon and his political career. He regained control of the company in 1974 and rejuvenated and expanded his empire.








Home - Outeniqua Choo Tjoe

outeniquachootjoe.com, 29 October 2025

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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

en.wikipedia.org, 14 October 2025

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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

youtube.com, 23 September 2025

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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

medium.com, 24 July 2025

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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

youtube.com, 05 July 2025

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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

Highly intelligent spiders may dream like us: Somewhere in Australia’s tropical northeast, a tiny spider twitches in its sleep. Posted on 02 November 2026.

Your teeth could soon be protected by a futuristic force field: For all the engineering packed into modern electric toothbrushes, cleaning your teeth still largely amounts to little more than sweeping a miniature broom around your mouth to inconvenience your tiny squatters. Posted on 04 November 2026.

Israeli Spy Company Busted Using Malware Ads To Infect, Locate, And Spy On Starlink Users: Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of dodgy online ads ​that it used to track, surveil, and geolocate internet users. Posted on 05 November 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 83 %
  • Fri 06: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 61 %
  • Sat 07: light rain

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Sun 08: sky is clear

    13 ° - 22 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 8 %
  • Mon 09: sky is clear

    17 ° - 25 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 5 %

See next two weeks

News (continued)

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.

Hundreds of students attend new startup career fair: The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food. Posted on 30 October 2026.

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From scooters to shampoo - the people saving hundreds from dumpster diving: The men and women who rummage through commercial bins to take clothes and other items. Posted on 03 November 2026.

How former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sees AI assistants fitting into busy women's lives: NPR's Juana Summers talks with former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer about AI assistants and lightening the load of emotional labor. Posted on 02 November 2026.

Inside Anthropic’s Hunt for A.I. Computing Power: The company went on a deal spree with tech giants, former crypto miners and others to gain computing power to further its artificial intelligence ambitions. Posted on 03 November 2026.

Why car keys are so expensive to replace: Modern car keys have evolved into encrypted fobs packed with security tech, which makes replacement and reprogramming far more costly. Posted on 03 November 2026.

Investigators Looking for Cause of Learjet Crash Say Ice Was ‘Certainly a Factor’: Ice, experts said, can change the shape of a plane’s wing, disrupting its aerodynamics. Posted on 03 November 2026.

Archaeologists are using chemistry to learn more about mummies: Ancient Egyptian mummy remains were once marketed as medicine. Posted on 02 November 2026.

Why car keys are so expensive to replace: Modern car keys have evolved into encrypted fobs packed with security tech, which makes replacement and reprogramming far more costly. Posted on 03 November 2026.

China Publicly Discloses Plan For a Lunar Landing Within Three Years: At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, Chinese space officials publicly outlined the most detailed roadmap yet for landing astronauts on the Moon "before 2030. Posted on 03 November 2026.

With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player: Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience. Posted on 20 May 2026.

Traces of ancient blood found in 115 million-year-old dinosaur fossil, new study claims: Chemical signatures found in a Brazilian dinosaur bone may be preserved red blood cells, a new study suggests, but not all experts agree. Posted on 02 November 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

  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 83 %
  • Fri 06: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 61 %
  • Sat 07: light rain

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Sun 08: sky is clear

    13 ° - 22 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 8 %
  • Mon 09: sky is clear

    17 ° - 25 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Tue 10: broken clouds

    17 ° - 23 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 83 %
  • Wed 11: broken clouds

    17 ° - 20 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 82 %
  • Thu 12: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 14 %
  • Fri 13: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 96 %
  • Sat 14: sky is clear

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sun 15: sky is clear

    16 ° - 23 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Mon 16: scattered clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 50 %
  • Tue 17: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 85 %
  • Wed 18: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Thu 19: moderate rain

    15 ° - 17 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 49 %
  • Fri 20: sky is clear

    14 ° - 20 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 1 %