Not (yet?) available in SA, but very handy for my UK and US readers, Please Press 1 is a genius idea. Brainchild of IT Manager Nigel Clarke, PP1 lists “shortcuts” to get through customer service hotlines’ automated menus, thus: Very simple, very clever and a great way to get around those really frustrating delays while [...]
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Chastise – better known as the Dambusters raid – on the Ruhr Valley in German Industrial heartland. A bit like Maitland, but with fewer taxis. A new type of weapon, the bouncing bomb, was designed and tested by Barnes Wallis specifically for the mission. Two of the dams were breached [...]
…well, that and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who continues to provide us with amazing photos of the earth, taken from the International Space Station and shared via twitter. Yesterday, he gave us this gem of a a rather barren looking Western Cape, with a bit of Northern Cape at the top right and a bit [...]
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Isle Of Man
via DavidColby on Buzzfeed. And it’s all* true. (or “Buzzfeed comes up trumps because I have no time to write a blog post today”) While I was born in Sheffield and I live in Cape Town, I have strong family connections to the Isle of Man and I guess that I consider it my spiritual [...]
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