This is my 5th trans alp crossing on a mountain bike, and the second after the 2007 trip that I did with Kai and Thomas. This time, I bought a Garmin Oregon 300 navigator and downloaded maps and mountain bike tour ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_94" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Sixt Advertising Munich Airport"][/caption] Clever ad from car rental company Sixt promoting their parking support system that comes with most of their cars. Don't worry - Sixt has cars with parking support! Read More
[caption id="attachment_91" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Nakheel.con in deconstruction"][/caption] No words for this image. Read More
Google will promote its Chrome browser via TV channel - a first for the Internet company. The ads are also released on Youtube's Chrome Channel. Interesting to see if Google will gain momentum in the browser war for market share. When ...Read More
Have been thinking about this for a while, and finally got my head around to actually do it: Most of our electricity is being used to power geysers that heat up water for our daily shower(s) and other use of ...Read More
Last night, Robyn and myself went with some friends to the Cape Town Baxter Theater to watch Pieter-Dirk Uys's Elections & Errections, which is an awesome piece about South African's politics. Elections and Erections is a personal journey through the minefield ...Read More
Last weekend we participated in the two Two Oceans marathon (half and full 56) and despite a chaotic start with overcrowded people we had a fabolous day. Run was super slow (took 30 minutes for first 4 kilometers) but from Southern ...Read More
Google Map and Earth has added terrain view and finally updated South Africa with a comprehensive road map which one was used to from Europe and the States. Finally can plan my mountain bike routes using Google Map and Garmin :-) Feel ...Read More
Beta obviously means beta - and even our beloved Apple company is not 100% perfect. After installing the latest iPhone SDK 3.0 beta I go the following error: <<DO NOT LOCALIZE>> Content Text <<DO NOT LOCALIZE>> [caption id="attachment_56" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Install iPhone SDK ...Read More
Just received an email from our neighbor Tony and Sue that they captured a boom snake in their garden, and hoping that no babies have been left behind :-) The boom snake is definitely dangerious to humans and no wonder that ...Read More