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My transport this morning. This lift club rocks! #GT40

ewan — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:49:54 +0000

140km/h at 2k rpm – awesome

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Wedding procrastination

ewan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:46:34 +0000

A colleague clearly isn't taking his wedding planning too seriously :-)

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O’higgins – stunning. And cold. Go #science.

ewan — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:04:51 +0000

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Queen Mary II arrives in Durban Harbour

ewan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:28:24 +0000

The RMS Queen Mary 2 is to date the largest ocean liner ever built (but no longer the world’s largest passenger ship, a record she held until 2006).She arrived in Durban harbour this morning around 07h30 SAT to much fanfare and local excitement, these photographs are from colleagues who watched the arrival from the harbour area (she was also easily visible from the Derivco building).

RMS Queen Mary II’s current status (added bonus – a webcam on the bridge, even if it’s low quality)
Twitter coverage from @MarcForrest and @tequiladiva

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Also see Marc Forrest’s Flickr set.

Another beautiful evening cloudscape on the East coast

ewan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:10:15 +0000

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Lightning Splash

ewan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:18 +0000

“On May 26th, photographers Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger were chasing a thunderstorm along a beach in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, when “the storm turned around and came a little too close for comfort,” says Schaefers. “We were able to photograph lightning hitting the water just 40 meters away.””

Pics taken with a Canon 400D.

http://www.astroengine.com/?p=5631

and

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2009

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skill vs fame – a lesson (for scientists?)

ewan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:12:26 +0000

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google suggests

ewan — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:43:33 +0000

Autocomplete for the Internet – this just rocks :-)
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1

20 Year Usenet Timeline

ewan — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:59:06 +0000

Google has published a Usenet Timeline, starting on 11th May 1981, listing some of the more memorable (and some not :-) moments in Usenet history.
November 11th, 1993 is the date of the earliest post of mine that I can find (embarrassed – i was 19 at the time :-) My subsequent post history brings back some cool memories – Starcon II, the Psycho Neurosis demo, Pascal (we’re talking Turbo Pascal 7 here :-), Corel Draw 4, my first forays into C++, Windows 3.1, NCSA HTTPD 1.4, CGIs for the first time, 850 Meg hard drives, 14.4 modems, ePages first Silicon Graphics machines (Indy WebForce Workstation and a Challenge S running IRIX 5.3), Sendmail woes, Netscape Communication and Enterprise webserver software, IRIX 6.2, Virtual hosting on one IP address, Informix databases, SQL, and Microsoft jokes :-)

I’ve come over all nostalgic now.

It’s amazing we even managed to survive without Google.

happy new year :)

ewan — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:55:27 +0000

welcome to 2005!