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Smallest man-made thing?
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen yet — a tungsten nanotip (a needle, in other words) that is only a single atom wide. The imaging is incredible as well, showing individual atoms and the blurs they make as they shifted during the 1-second exposure. From the article abstract:
“Confining this field-assisted etching reaction to the shank has enabled us to produce single-atom tips with an apex radius far sharper than the nominal 10 nm radius of curvature tips we start with.”
I had no idea we have developed imaging technology that can show individual atoms…
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Tags: Technology
The state of air travel
With the brouhaha about the grand terrorist plot to blow up airliners in-air traveling to the USA, British officials seem to be taking the easy route and having a knee-jerk reaction to the whole situation.
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Tags: air travel, injustice, Politics
Rails is so cool…
Things have been so busy, its insane! Hence my silence for over a month now…
I’ve been employed as a Rails developer at Glasshouse Multimedia here in Cape Town, so I’m actually earning an income from writing for one of the greatest web frameworks out there at the moment.
Granted, Rails has been having an insane amount of good PR and community momentum, but it is truly a refreshing change from the fetid pile of dingo’s kidneys that is PHP.
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Tags: Ruby on Rails, Technology
President Bush is attempting to get Republicans to end their objections and put into effect the Convention on Cybercrime. It would require the FBI to aid oppressive foreign regimes in enforcing their internet laws, including ones where free expression of political opposition is a crime. In effect, it would end freedom of speech on the internet.
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Tags: internet, Politics, Technology
Sushi at Cape Town Fish Market
So, we went for a bit of sushi at the Waterfront’s CTFM yesterday — only because Ocean Basket was completely swamped, as per usual for any weekend evening — and rediscovered why we don’t generally go there.
Continue reading ‘Sushi at Cape Town Fish Market’
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Tags: sushi, value for money
Akismet rules!
I’ve been getting increasing amounts of linkspam to this blog; since I’ve never had direct-to-publish commenting enabled, I’ve only gotten it in my inbox, but it is still a hassle to go manually clear that out every time.
Enter akismet; it aggregates spam occurences from all the blogs it is installed on, to provide very accurate targetting of all those viagra (and friends’) scams. This is just my shout-out to the excellent work these guys are doing!
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Tags: spam, Technology
Married Life
…really isn’t all that different 
Sure, things feel more formalised, locked-down, final; but that doesn’t really change the way we tackle each new day. Hopefully there’s some advantage to being in a formal contract, such as increased bargaining powers for security at our (least?) favourite lending institution.
But, ultimately, its a great feeling 
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Tags: marriage
Service in South Africa
Getting decent service from shops seems to be a herculean task. For instance, one would expect a shop to try and compensate you for your trouble if they’ve seriously screwed up on their part… Continue reading ‘Service in South Africa’
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Tags: furniture city, service, volkswagen
After move at the end of June, I’ve been without ADSL. Telkom, our friendly neighbourhood state-sanctioned telecommunications monopoly has a 2-3 month backlog for installation of telephone lines and activation in the DSLAMs. Continue reading ‘Disconnected, and the price of broadband’
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Tags: bad business, monopoly, Technology, telkom
Moving sucks.
So, we’ve moved now for what seems to be the third time in two years, and this is all becoming a little tedious now. Granted, we live in the best place in the world, and hopefully we can now stay settled in one place for more than half a year, but the sheer amount of admin work involved just boggles the mind. Continue reading ‘Moving sucks.’
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Tags: moving
MySQL vs PostgreSQL shootout
At the risk of fueling the already-merrily-burning holy debate around which of MySQL or PostgreSQL to use, I’m publishing my own findings here. Continue reading ‘MySQL vs PostgreSQL shootout’
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Tags: benchmark, mysql, postgresql, Technology
Forwards are from the devil!
That’s right, folks, you heard it here first. And for those a little slow in the audience, you are probably the kind of people who happily forward on these kinds of spawn you receive from friends or strangers equally! Continue reading ‘Forwards are from the devil!’
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Tags: chain letter, forwards, Technology
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