Think today I will give the green airline a showing. A Kulula flight coming in to land.
The full set of these photos can be seen in my Picasa Album.
#3/365 – Through the rainbow
Being a cold and rainy day in my part of the world today, I went digging for a photo I took a while ago. It is not perfect and the plane is a bit blurry.
I caught the SAA plane just as it passed in front of the rainbow, or seems like it was flying through the rainbow.
The full set of these photos can be seen in my Picasa Album.
#2/365 – Mango coming in
Sometime the planes come in fairly low to land and disappear behind the hill just behind my house. Here is a Mango plane coming in to land.
The full set of these photos can be seen in my Picasa Album.
#1/365 – Soccer ball on nose
I have been blogging for a while now and lately have noticed that I am starting to blog less and less. I have also noticed that a few people have this daily theme going that I think is a good idea to ensure one is blogging daily.
I stay right under the flight path of airplanes that come in to land at Cape Town International or take off from Cape Town International. I have started to take photos of planes as they go by overhead. What better theme to use as my inspiration of my daily meme.
Couple of days ago I had to drop off people at Cape Town International and while there took some pictures of airplanes. What beter way to start this theme with a 1Time plane with a Soccer Ball on its nose ..
The full set of these photos can be seen in my Picasa Album.
The Nokia N8 — first Symbian^3 phone
So the Nokia N8 was officially released as if we did not know what was coming, if you read the rumour mill. Here is what it looks like:
Yes, from what I can gather, in all the colours of the rainbow. I have seen pictures of it in red and blue also. That camera you see can do 12MP stills and 720p videos.
The one negative I have heard was regarding Symbian^3. This is the first phone that sports it and by all accounts, the people are not impressed with it. Much the same as Symbian^1 which Nokia currently uses. There is nothing really new in it.
I will keep an open mind until such time I have it in my hands and can do a proper review of it.
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SEO business is a rip-off — well at least some of them.
I was asked by a company to advise them on their business processes and how to automate this and just create an more integrated online environment. While I was meeting with them, they mentioned to me that they pay another company R2500.00 a month for a SEO report. I asked to have a look at the report that was produced and what a rip-off. This report is just taking Google Analytics data and represent it in some Word doc report form.
This I think is not on. How can somebody do this? What value is added for this R2500.00 .. in my view, absolutely nothing.
I know there is other SEO companies that does add value by evaluating keywords, meta tags and other content to ensure that one ends up higher in search engine searches. In this report from this company I could not find any recommendations like this.
I immediately advised then to get rid of this SEO company.
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Ubuntu Jobs: What does it take to work for Canonical – I am asking?
I suppose there is lots like me that would love to work for Canonical. Now there is the why and the what. Here is my why and hopefully my readers can pitch in with the what part.
So why?
- I believe in what Canonical is trying to achieve with Ubuntu and the way they are going about doing it.
- I use Ubuntu daily as both my work machine and also my home and entertainment machine.
- It would be great to be able to say that I had a small part of bringing Ubuntu to the world. Had some small part already in doing some translations and reporting some bugs.
- Working with the best there is, is just awesome.
- I can work at home in the beautiful Cape Town and at the same time travel to other destinations all over the world.
- I am a professional Project Manager and believe that with my experience and skills, I can contribute and add value to the process of bringing each Ubuntu release to market. Running time-based projects is not the easiest of things particularly when the resources delivering that is spread across the world.
- Since Ubuntu has it’s roots in South Africa, I would love to work for Ubuntu as a South African. About time some South African blood and culture gets added to the Canonical mix
. From what I believe, Mark is the sole South African working at Canonical.
Some of the jobs that would suit me:
So what do you think it would take to work for Canonical? Here is some that I have come up with:
- Be able to operate in a global diverse team.
- Be able to work across various timezones.
- Be able to diligent, logical and precise.
- Have great time-management skills.
- Have great communication skills particularly electronic communication skills.
- Be great at what you doing … in my case Project Management.
- Be passionate about Open Source and the promotion of the Open Source environment.
- Be innovative and prepared to change and accept change.
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Clouds just make for a beautiful sunrise
This is how the sun raised its head through the clouds this morning here in Cape Town.
More photos can be found in my public Picasa gallery.
Castle of Good Hope not on the list …
WebUrbanist ran an article today called Starry Knights: 14 Stellar Star-Shaped Fortresses which did not include our beloved castle in Cape Town. Here is a picture I grabbed from Google Maps.
From Wikipedia:
Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the Castle is the oldest building in South Africa. It replaced an older fort called the Fort de Goede Hoop, which was made out of clay and timber and built in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck upon his arrival at the Cape.
The purpose of both were to act as a replenishment station for ships
passing the treacherous coast around the Cape on long voyages between
the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies.
If downloads counted, District 9 will win the Oscar
When it comes to Bittorrent downloads for Oscar nominated movies, then South African movie, District 9 will win this year’s Oscar.
| rank | movie | downloads | |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | District 9 | 12,639,000 | |
| 2 | Avatar | 11,326,000 | |
| 3 | The Hurt Locker | 7,930,000 | |
| 4 | Up | 5,437,000 | |
| 5 | Inglourious Basterds | 5,376,000 | |
| 6 | Precious | 4,922,000 | |
| 7 | Up In The Air | 4,855,000 | |
| 8 | A Serious Man | 3,836,000 | |
| 9 | The Blind Side | 1,845,000 | |
| 10 | An Education | 683,000 | |