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First of Time’s Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2008

I have always laughed at cranky John Dvorak letting himself get annoyed by Top N lists where only a few of the N items actually correctly and accurately match the lists tittle.

 

from: TIME (click image for full story online)

 

That was until I saw this one – the failed Hadron collider [...]

Caffeine Enriched Beef Jerky/Billtong

 

from: FoodBev.com (click image for full story online)

 

“Each package of Perky Jerky contains roughly the same amount of caffeine found in two cans of a popular energy drink,”

While this is not the first snack to be enriched with caffeine it must be the leader in the product development tale.

[...]

Meals Posted From My iPhone

This is a trial of WordPress on iPhone.

At last blogging from the iPhone

So at last I had my iPhone, connect it and start the process. But no, I have to upload the latest phone software while connected to iTunes.

But I am in South Africa and that’s not as easy as it sounds – three partial downloads and six hours later I’m online!

Discriminating against South [...]

South Africa’s Apps Store is Gameless!

Now that South Africa at least has an Apps Store we were getting excited BUT there is no games category and searching for games that exist on other country’s sites shows the apps don’t exist on the Apple’s South African site!

The 1 Piece Apple Laptops.

The more I read the blogs and listed to the podcasts the more I get confused. This writing and talk of machining the body out of a single block of aluminium is just not possible and anyway how would one get the stuff into it. But nobody stops and corrects the error – am I [...]

Genius Bar? Or Am I Doing Something Wrong?

The Genius Bar doesn’t seem to have heard of Yellow Submarine by the Beatles!

 

 

I do realise its because iTunes don’t sell Beatles music, but shouldn’t they be able to suggest something they do sell?

Apple iPhone in South Africa

What is Apple doing to us in South Africa?

According to this email from Apple, the iPhone launches tomorrow.

 

 

But yesterday

the iStore could not tell me the price the iStore could not tell me the carrier contracts that would apply

and today the carrier Vodacom could not tell be

when the phone [...]

Colour in South Africa

Last week there was little colour in the Pilansburg Game reserve

 

 

 

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

 

 

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

  Today there was lots of colour in Pretoria

 

 

 

photo by Dominique Harcourt [...]

The Science / Food balance of the French

I found this well thumbed book in a house where I lived in France.

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

Knowing and having lived the French “obsession” with food for three months I feel it might be interesting to look at its contents a bit deeper. You can [...]