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iWeathar.co.za – comprehensive weather information from around South Africa, beautifully presented and easy to use. Are you watching SA Weather Service? I’m down in Cape Agulhas this weekend. You can see whether I’m having a hot or wet time of it by clicking through to view the latest conditions in nearby Struisbaai. For other locations [...]

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Northern Lights

Just to share this image of the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire (the highest pub in Britain) and the Aurora Borealis, due to the Solar Flare which also permanently disabled my toaster earlier this afternoon. You might like to look at the Aurora Sky Station Live Camera from Sweden, which is producing some amazing [...]

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CSI lies

I’m hugely busy and I note that James still has’t published anything beyond his salad, so I’m just going to share this article I read in the Grauniad last night on “CSI Oxford” – or rather LGC Forensics, the private company who deal with the science side of many of the high profile criminal cases [...]

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London, empty

On Flickr blog: On Christmas morning IanVisits got up early and took pictures of an almost empty London. And then he wrote about it on his blog: London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, [...]

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#Fails

This year, I have been mostly entertaining myself during quiet moments through the medium of TNL‘s “Fail of the Month” compilations. Unsurprisingly, there is a 2011 compilation version of the 2011 compilations, and it’s pretty funny. Even those readers who don’t usually enjoy the videos and music that I occasionally put on here (their prerogative, [...]

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