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My Origin of Words: Jumbo, it’s a big story

The origin of the word Jumbo is a bit of a myth mixed in with conjecture and splashed with some showmanship. In essence a good story. It is thought the original...

My South African Photography: Savage Insects

On holiday in the Drakensberg I decided to get my macro photography on! Hiking around I came across a tree with quite cup shaped leaves. The insects in these le...

My Jarvis: The ESP8266

Background This is a series of submissions on my attempt to create my own JARVIS and all the home automation bits that go with it. This series of articles start...

My Origin of Words: In the Limelight

The phrase "In the Limelight" refers to someone who is the centre of attention. It is a fairly innocuous phrase but it has an interesting etymology (well I thin...

My South African Photography: Hout Bay, Cape Town

Many people have heard of Cape Town in South Africa. It's in the Western Cape province. We were there a few years ago and while on a drive along Chapman's peak ...

My Jarvis: Introduction

Overview Like any self-respecting geek my goal is to create JARVIS. Luckily I have been endowed with a skill set geared to this so I started to create the begin...

My South African Photography: Three Rondavels

In the province of Mpumalanga (Place of the Rising Sun in the isiZulu language) the Northern Drakensberg mountain range ends in an escarpment. At this point, th...

Introductions

Hi, I am a South African guy living in Johannesburg. I was introduced to this platform through my general interest in blockchain technology but I have liked wha...

My Origin of Words: Aaaah....the Bikini

In the 1940s, two men, Louis Réard and Jacques Heim, began competing to create something for which men around the world have not thanked them nearly enough. No ...