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Today's quotable quote: Henry Ford: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

This day in history: 31 October 2026: Harry Houdini Makes His Final Escape (1926). Born Erik Weisz, Harry Houdini was an American magician and escape artist. He was famous for escaping from locks, handcuffs, straitjackets, and even sealed chests underwater, thanks to his incredible strength, agility, and skill at manipulating locks. His strength likely carried him through his last performance on October 24, 1926, while suffering from acute appendicitis. He was hospitalized and died on October 31.








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

World's largest digital camera snaps new world beyond Pluto: Space was so much simpler when I was a kid. Posted on 29 October 2026.

Retro video camera combines 4K tech with Super 8 soul: Ah, Super 8 movie cameras … they were limited to 3-minute cassettes that had to be sent off for processing, which cost about $20 each. Posted on 31 October 2026.

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.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Sun 01: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Mon 02: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 85 %
  • Tue 03: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 93 %
  • Wed 04: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 23 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 86 %
  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %

See next two weeks

News (continued)

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.

: Posted on 01 January 1970.

AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban: Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research findsAI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes. Posted on 29 October 2026.

How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon: Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern AdriaticVenice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Posted on 29 October 2026.

: Posted on 01 January 1970.

Building boom puts 300,000 people in the path of potential Himalayan disasters: The construction of tourism facilities, housing, and infrastructure has surged in parts of Nepal and India's Uttarakhand. Posted on 28 October 2026.

How a lifelong Republican came to lead the data center battle in Ohio: In Ohio, many people are displeased with the state's rapid buildout of data centers. Posted on 28 October 2026.

AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them: A.I. has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers. Posted on 29 October 2026.

Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest - Nautilus: A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. Posted on 29 October 2026.

After Flying Past the Moon, an Artemis II Astronaut Lands in California: Reid Wiseman, now a retired emeritus astronaut, will become deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s premier center for deep-space robotic missions. Posted on 29 October 2026.

This surprising mammal fossil is giving scientists something to chew on: It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. Posted on 07 October 2026.

Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest - Nautilus: A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. Posted on 29 October 2026.

Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead: An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. Posted on 29 October 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.

Bronze Age sword discovered in an Italian lake is still sharp after 3,300 years: Archaeologists found several ancient weapons, intact vases and a bronze razor in the volcanic crater lake. Posted on 28 October 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

  • Sun 01: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Mon 02: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 85 %
  • Tue 03: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 93 %
  • Wed 04: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 23 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 86 %
  • Thu 05: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Fri 06: scattered clouds

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 38 %
  • Sat 07: scattered clouds

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 12 km/h / Clouds 45 %
  • Sun 08: light rain

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 89 %
  • Mon 09: few clouds

    16 ° - 20 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 14 %
  • Tue 10: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 20 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 94 %
  • Wed 11: moderate rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 26 %
  • Thu 12: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 29 %
  • Fri 13: sky is clear

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 9 %
  • Sat 14: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 32 %
  • Sun 15: sky is clear

    14 ° - 20 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Mon 16: sky is clear

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 3 %