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Today's quotable quote: Judith Martin: Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

This day in history: 18 May 2026: The Bath School Bombing (1927). Over the course of several months leading up to May 18, 1927, disgruntled school board member Andrew Kehoe hid hundreds of pounds of explosives inside the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan. That day, after destroying his farm—which was slated for foreclosure—he detonated the explosives inside the school and set off a bomb in his vehicle. The massacre is considered the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in US history.




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

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

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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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Review: Fraimic canvas sucks AI art out of virtual and into real life: Fraimic wants to turn AI art into something you can put on your wall, rather than forgotten images somewhere in your phone's gallery. Posted on 17 May 2026.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt: This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Whoever with a response to one particular line in our post about John Roberts decimating faith in the Supreme Court’s consistency: In second place, it’s Stephen T. Posted on 17 May 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Mon 18: scattered clouds

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 40 %
  • Tue 19: light rain

    16 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Wed 20: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 21 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Thu 21: few clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 13 %
  • Fri 22: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 17 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %

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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.

Four student-founded AI companies win Cornell Tech Startup Awards: The startups each won $100,000 investments during the university’s annual Startup Awards competition, held May 14. Posted on 15 May 2026.

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Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?: Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacyAfter a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure – which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers worldwide – announced it had “reached an agreement with the unauthorised actor” behind the ransomware attack. Posted on 18 May 2026.

‘You only have so much space’: the limits of reducing infection risk on cruise ships: It is hardly a surprise that outbreaks can occur and experts say many of the factors involved are not easy to changeIt was a voyage that promised such stuff as dreams are made of, yet within weeks the Atlantic expedition of the MV Hondius had become a nightmare, with three passengers dead from hantavirus and more showing symptoms. Posted on 18 May 2026.

This metal detector for $60 off on Amazon is a smart buy - here's why I recommend it: Search for treasures on the beach or in your own backyard with this metal detector bundle at Amazon. Posted on 18 May 2026.

Is it safe to swim at England's bathing sites?: Signs warning people not to swim are in place at almost all of England's official inland river bathing sites due to concerns the water could be unsafe. Posted on 15 May 2026.

How Trump may be changing his stance on AI regulation: The Trump administration's approach on AI so far has been to prioritize innovation over regulation. Posted on 14 May 2026.

OpenAI Trial Heads to Jury After Closing Arguments in Musk vs. Altman Case: Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments in the blockbuster federal trial on Thursday. Posted on 18 May 2026.

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test: Scientists identified a newly described clathrate crystal inside trinitite — the glasslike material formed when the Trinity bomb test fused desert sand and vaporized debris under extreme heat and pressure. Posted on 18 May 2026.

Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’: For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife. Posted on 18 May 2026.

Researchers unearth Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur: They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. Posted on 14 May 2026.

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test: Scientists identified a newly described clathrate crystal inside trinitite — the glasslike material formed when the Trinity bomb test fused desert sand and vaporized debris under extreme heat and pressure. Posted on 18 May 2026.

Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable': Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list. Posted on 18 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.

'Last titan' of Thailand discovered, and it's the longest-necked dinosaur on record from Southeast Asia: A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its kind from Southeast Asia. Posted on 17 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 18: scattered clouds

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 40 %
  • Tue 19: light rain

    16 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Wed 20: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 21 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Thu 21: few clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 13 %
  • Fri 22: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 17 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Sat 23: sky is clear

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 1 %
  • Sun 24: broken clouds

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 79 %
  • Mon 25: few clouds

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 13 %
  • Tue 26: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Wed 27: broken clouds

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 60 %
  • Thu 28: sky is clear

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Fri 29: light rain

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sat 30: broken clouds

    12 ° - 16 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 62 %
  • Sun 31: overcast clouds

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Mon 01: overcast clouds

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 99 %
  • Tue 02: overcast clouds

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 100 %