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Today's quotable quote: Jack Handey: Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

This day in history: 09 November 2026: Great Lakes Storm Reaches Peak Ferocity (1913). The deadliest and most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes region, the "Big Blow," "Freshwater Fury," or "White Hurricane," as it is variously known, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that battered parts of the US and Canada for several days in November 1913. Approximately 250 people died in the violent storm—all of them sailors who perished when their ships were wrecked or sunk on the lakes.


Germany’s 450-Gram Robotic Gull Flies Like Life

engineerine.com, 07 November 2026

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Since Leonardo da Vinci sketched his human-powered ornithopter in 1485, generations of inventors, clockmakers, and aerospace engineers have tried—and almost universally failed—to build a machine that flies purely by flapping its wings like a bird. When early 19th- and 20th-century aviation pione...








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…


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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.

MIT fuses best of Legos & Transformers into shape-shifting building blocks: When you were a child, Lego offered the exciting imaginative play of building the shapes of buildings, devices, or robots. Posted on 07 November 2026.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt: This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Just Word Me with a comment about Sam Altman’s case against people “inefficiently” owning their own RAM: This can be said about most things that make the world’s economies run “Consumerism”. Posted on 08 November 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Mon 09: sky is clear

    17 ° - 29 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 10: broken clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 57 %
  • Wed 11: sky is clear

    17 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 3 %
  • Thu 12: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 97 %
  • Fri 13: scattered clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 39 %

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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.

Project to rebuild trust in AI era lands Laude’s $10M ‘moonshot’ award: A $10 million “moonshot” grant from Laude Institute will help Cornell researchers realize the potential of artificial intelligence, while giving online communities control over AI’s role. Posted on 05 November 2026.

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Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?: As AI exposes flaws in IT systems and geopolitics plays out on the cyber frontline, some experts say the events of recent weeks could soon be a common occurrenceAlex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business in London on Monday last week when he noticed something odd. Posted on 09 November 2026.

Ukraine’s new frontier: how space has become critical to balance of the war: In a war driven by drones and battlefield sensors, access to space is essential. Posted on 09 November 2026.

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Scientists predict 2026 hottest year on record as climate talks begin: Scientists are predictng this could be the hottest year on record as the COP31 climate summit opens. Posted on 09 November 2026.

Google, Meta and TikTok sue to block California youth social media law: Google, Meta, and TikTok have sued California to block the enforcement of a state law meant to protect children from getting addicted to social media. Posted on 07 November 2026.

Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Chinese Spy: Mr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U. Posted on 09 November 2026.

Ur-Nammu: Ur-Nammu (c. 2112–2094 BCE) founded the Third Dynasty of Ur and ushered in the Ur III period, often called the Sumerian Renaissance. Posted on 09 November 2026.

Did These Scientists Find Evidence of Blood in a Dinosaur Bone?: Mineralized “structures” discovered in the bone were the fossilized remains of red blood cells, according to a recent study. Posted on 09 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.

Ur-Nammu: Ur-Nammu (c. 2112–2094 BCE) founded the Third Dynasty of Ur and ushered in the Ur III period, often called the Sumerian Renaissance. Posted on 09 November 2026.

Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering: It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. Posted on 09 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.

Would you learn to lucid dream if you could?: Neuroscientists say people can be "trained" to recognize when they're dreaming — in other words, lucid dreaming may be an acquirable skill. Posted on 08 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

  • Mon 09: sky is clear

    17 ° - 29 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 10: broken clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 57 %
  • Wed 11: sky is clear

    17 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 3 %
  • Thu 12: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 97 %
  • Fri 13: scattered clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 39 %
  • Sat 14: sky is clear

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sun 15: broken clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 59 %
  • Mon 16: sky is clear

    17 ° - 19 ° Wind 13 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 17: broken clouds

    17 ° - 19 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 68 %
  • Wed 18: sky is clear

    17 ° - 19 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Thu 19: few clouds

    17 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 19 %
  • Fri 20: broken clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 14 km/h / Clouds 72 %
  • Sat 21: few clouds

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 22 %
  • Sun 22: sky is clear

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Mon 23: sky is clear

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Tue 24: sky is clear

    17 ° - 18 ° Wind 16 km/h / Clouds 2 %