Zebras
I am starting to put some of my favourite photos on this blog. You can see most of my digital photos at The Grumpy Old Techies Photos. These are Zebras photographed in the Kruger Park.
I am starting to put some of my favourite photos on this blog. You can see most of my digital photos at The Grumpy Old Techies Photos. These are Zebras photographed in the Kruger Park.
An ambitious new project is hoping to help clean the world’s oceans with a trash collector that is reportedly the longest floating structure in recorded world history. Back in 2013 TrueActivist reported that a 19-year-old developed a plan to clean up the world’s oceans in just 5 years, removing 7,250,000 tons of plastic. However, last…
While I was setting up another wordpress site today, I found out to my great surprise that WordPress can actually do markup by simply installing the jetpack plugin. For those that don’t know, is a computer typesetting system that really shines for difficult typesetting problems like mathematical formulas and scientific text. For more detail see…
Lovely Scops Owl in Tsendze Rustic Camp in Kruger Park. Tsendze is one of my favourite camps in the park. It is is camping only with no electricity (solar for the lights in the bathrooms) and gas for hot water. If you want to get away from everything Tsendze is the place to go to….
Today 28 January 2016 is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. This event shocked the world and shook NASA out of its complacency. A commission was formed to investigate. Surprisingly there was only one scientist on the commission, Richard Feynman. He filed a minority report which was nearly suppressed and also performed his famous…
Hi I am Arnold Greyling from Johannesburg in South Africa. This is my peer review assignment for week 1 of the Introduction To Music Production course at Coursera.org. I will be showing you how to record an acoustic instrument in a typical home studio. I will use the following equipment in this howto: An acoustic…
These photos were taken from the roof of a bank in Mombasa, Kenya. You can see more at my Africa from the Rooftops album. I was installing computer systems in their IT room to monitor radio and television advertisements. Fort Jesus Fort Jesus (Portuguese: Forte Jesus de Mombaça) is a fort located on Mombasa Island….