• The Pale Blue Dot - our only home

    I really love this quote about the Earth and how small and insignificant we really are. It was written by the astronomer Carl Sagan and originally accompanied this picture of Earth (called Pale Blue Dot) taken from more than 6 billion kilometers away! "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever...
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  • Power Balance is rubbish

    I've been coming across Power Balance bracelets more and more often. These bracelets use a special hologram (or sometimes quantum effects) to "restore your body’s electrical balance, promoting a free exchange of positive and negative ions and align your body’s energy pathways." They instantly provide: "Faster synaptic response (brain function), enhanced muscle response (in both fast and slow twitch tissu...
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I’m in my late twenties.

I live in Cape Town.

I’m an IT consultant (for now).

This blog is my personal web presence. If something interests me enough – up it goes.

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  • Timmer

    Hello Alistair,
    On Flickr.com I saw your photo’s of Himalayan Tahrs, taken at Platteklip Gorge on Table Mountain with a smal Canon camera.
    In the week before (the 20sth january in the afternoon), I was climbing there, with my brother in law, who lives in SA.
    Near to the top it became cold and windy, so we changed some clothes.
    And there I forgot my camera. Indeed, a Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS.
    Stupid!
    Such a coincidence, could it be possible that you found it?
    Losing a brand-new camera is sad, but worse: I lost all pictures of my whole first vacancy-week in SA.
    Of course I aked at the office of the Cable, but that was later, because everything was already closed when we came down.
    Well, that’s the story, I give it a try, may be I have more luck this time!
    I hope to hear from you,
    Best wishes,
    Theo Timmer

    Theo Timmer
    Binnenburg 3
    1791CG Den Burg Texel
    The Netherlands
    0222-313657
    boekhandel@hetopenboek.nl
    th.timmer@planet.nl