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Today's quotable quote: Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live: The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

This day in history: 21 September 2026: The Brief Battle of Prestonpans (1745). England's King James II may have been deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but he was not without supporters. These supporters, the Jacobites, spent the next six decades unsuccessfully fighting to restore him—and, later, his descendants—to the throne. Their final major attempt, the Forty-five Rebellion, began auspiciously for the House of Stuart, with a victory at Prestonpans, Scotland. The battle was won in mere minutes.








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

Europe's largest carbon capture plant will trap 800K tons of CO2 annually: Norwegian chemical company Yara has inaugurated the largest industrial carbon capture facility in all of Europe this week. Posted on 20 September 2026.

What a hoot: 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year winners: Fellow bird nerds, it's time to reveal the winners of one the key nature photography competitions on the calendar. Posted on 21 September 2026.

The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself: The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Posted on 21 September 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Tue 22: light rain

    18 ° - 24 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 76 %
  • Wed 23: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Thu 24: light rain

    15 ° - 22 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 25: light rain

    17 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 46 %
  • Sat 26: moderate rain

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %

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.

A&S offers new science, technology and society major: An innovative major in the College of Arts & Sciences is being expanded and refined to highlight its combination of science, social science and the humanities and its relevance to careers today. Posted on 14 September 2026.

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Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030: Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’ The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few years, rejecting such assertions as overblown “doomsday narratives”. Posted on 22 September 2026.

Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’: Exclusive: The tax-funded brainchild of Dominic Cummings hopes to find ways to speed up wild species’ evolutionVaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies are among 14 tax-funded projects from the UK’s “invention agency” aiming to accelerate nature’s ability to adapt to the climate crisis. Posted on 22 September 2026.

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Typhoon Dujuan tracking close to Tokyo triggers rare evacuation alert: More than 1.9 million people are under evacuation orders as Typhoon Dujuan batters Japan. Posted on 21 September 2026.

The data center backlash is reshaping American politics — one community at a time: With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties and forging unexpected alliances. Posted on 21 September 2026.

The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side: Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. Posted on 22 September 2026.

The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird: Hudsonian godwits make one of the longest nonstop migrations in the bird world, flying between Patagonia and Alaska while conservationists track how climate change and habitat loss may affect their survival. Posted on 21 September 2026.

Sadness and Suicidal Behavior Among Teenagers Is Declining, C.D.C. Finds: A national survey has found that key mental health measures for teenagers have significantly improved from their worst levels during the pandemic. Posted on 22 September 2026.

Scientists find evidence of ancient drug use in prehistoric teeth: A new study on ancient human remains finds evidence for the habitual use of betel nuts, dating back to the Ice Age. Posted on 17 September 2026.

Staged Car Crashes and the Family That Pocketed $6 Million: A family led by William Mize IV staged car crashes and exaggerated injuries to defraud insurers out of millions, until the scheme unraveled. Posted on 22 September 2026.

Paramount Skydance 'Emerges Victorious', Finally Wins Settlement for Warner Bros Takeover: Paramount Skydance just "emerged victorious" reports Reuters, "from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery" that will "dramatically concentrate power across Hollywood's film, TV, streaming and news businesses. Posted on 22 September 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.

What are you most excited for NASA's Roman Space Telescope to find?: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken its first pictures of space as it heads toward its orbital location. Posted on 21 September 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

  • Tue 22: light rain

    18 ° - 24 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 76 %
  • Wed 23: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Thu 24: light rain

    15 ° - 22 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 25: light rain

    17 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 46 %
  • Sat 26: moderate rain

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Sun 27: light rain

    14 ° - 15 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Mon 28: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 29: sky is clear

    14 ° - 19 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Wed 30: sky is clear

    14 ° - 21 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Thu 01: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 99 %
  • Fri 02: light rain

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 51 %
  • Sat 03: moderate rain

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Sun 04: light rain

    13 ° - 16 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 41 %
  • Mon 05: few clouds

    12 ° - 16 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 23 %
  • Tue 06: broken clouds

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 70 %
  • Wed 07: sky is clear

    11 ° - 22 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 0 %