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Today's quotable quote: Socrates: Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

This day in history: 03 November 2026: Christopher Columbus First Sights the Caribbean Island of Dominica (1493). On the first Sunday in November 1493, Christopher Columbus spotted a mountainous island between Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. Ignoring the fact that its Carib inhabitants already had a name for the island, Columbus renamed it Dominica, the Latin name for the day of the week on which he spotted it. The Caribs managed to resist Spanish efforts to colonize the island but were unable to fend off the British and French.








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.

Prism puts an eye-controlled Linux computer on your face: Raven Resonance says it's managed to squeeze a standalone computer into a pair of smart glasses. Posted on 03 November 2026.

American Measles Cases Have More Than Doubled Last Year’s Record Totals: As I continue to say, you may be done with the measles, but the measles is not done with you, nor the entire country. Posted on 03 November 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Tue 03: few clouds

    15 ° - 25 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 21 %
  • Wed 04: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Fri 06: light rain

    15 ° - 16 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 31 %
  • Sat 07: light rain

    15 ° - 16 ° Wind 13 km/h / Clouds 1 %

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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Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack: Chains in seven countries say cooling unit temperatures rose overnight in incident similar to hack of French shopsWho is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?Supermarket chains in at least seven European countries have said the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers in some of their shops soared overnight to as high as 50C (122F), echoing a cyber-attack last month that caused millions of euros of damage in France. Posted on 03 November 2026.

Fossilised red blood cells found in 115m-year-old dinosaur’s bone, say scientists: Chemical tests on Aratasaurus bone identify presence of heme, the organic compound that allows haemoglobin in blood to carry oxygen around bodyIt could be the opening of a Jurassic Park rip-off: scientists examining ancient dinosaur bones find what appear to be fossilised red blood cells, and traces of the molecule that gives the beast’s blood its distinctive crimson hue. Posted on 03 November 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

  • Tue 03: few clouds

    15 ° - 25 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 21 %
  • Wed 04: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 98 %
  • Fri 06: light rain

    15 ° - 16 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 31 %
  • Sat 07: light rain

    15 ° - 16 ° Wind 13 km/h / Clouds 1 %
  • Sun 08: broken clouds

    13 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 69 %
  • Mon 09: few clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 22 %
  • Tue 10: broken clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 52 %
  • Wed 11: light rain

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Thu 12: sky is clear

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Fri 13: sky is clear

    15 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sat 14: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Sun 15: broken clouds

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 10 km/h / Clouds 63 %
  • Mon 16: sky is clear

    16 ° - 16 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 17: light rain

    15 ° - 16 ° Wind 14 km/h / Clouds 9 %
  • Wed 18: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 0 %