Month: January 2011

  • Deepest Sea Shoot for Avatar Sequel in the Marianas Trench

    Deepest Sea Shoot for Avatar Sequel in the Marianas Trench

    The author of Avatar, James Cameron, is assembling a team to dive to the bottom of the deepest sea. He is planning to shoot footage for a sequel to Avatar. The movie is set in the turbulent waters of Pandora, an alien moon, and it’s expected to hit the circuit in 2014. Cameron has commissioned…

  • The Beautiful Bot River Estuary

    The Beautiful Bot River Estuary

    Last year I took this photo of the lovely Bot River estuary. We are privileged to live within walking distance of its shores. You may notice, if you look up at the top of this page, the banner-header of this website is cropped from the same photograph. Time and time again I am drawn to…

  • Quotation Mark And Space After Period: Rules You Should Know About

    Quotation Mark And Space After Period: Rules You Should Know About

    Have you ever wondered, like me, if one or two spaces should come after a period in a sentence? Well, we are not alone. Apparently there is a dichotomy of opinion on this issue. Strongly held views are asserted by each camp. For the one-spacers, Farhad Manjoo puts it best: “Typing two spaces after a period…

  • The Hunter Gatherer Diet and How to Fast Your Way to Better Health

    The Hunter Gatherer Diet and How to Fast Your Way to Better Health

    Last night I was up at midnight with my better half indulging in what is known as “the midnight snack.” Why am I telling you this? Because we spontaneously decided to commence with what will henceforth be known as our first thirty-hour-fast. Right after the midnight snack, that is. As I write this to you…

  • Language of Afrikaans and Khoisan Two of 24 Spoken in South Africa

    Language of Afrikaans and Khoisan Two of 24 Spoken in South Africa

    Not many people know that 24 living languages are spoken in South Africa today. Of these, according to some estimates, Afrikaans is spoken by around 23 million people, or 46% of the population of nearly 50 million people. At the other end of the scale, an almost extinct Khoisan language known by various names, including Ng’uki,…