ARTISTIC - Wikimedia Commons Photographs Available For Use By Everyone!

This beautiful photograph of a Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, is available online (click the image to link) for anyone to use

from: Wikimedia Commons
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photo by Paulrudd
(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)

ASTONISHING - Biotech Hackers?

This is really astonishing, if one draws a parallel between the Mainframe Computer Industry of the 70s and hackers Gates, Jobs and Wozniak, then these guys are about to bring biotech to the people!

from: NATURE
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I remember CAPEX meeting at our Biosciences unit, where Food Technologists and Engineers goggled at the vast costs of the complex machinery the Biotechnologists convinced us where non negotiable. While I dig into this a bit futher why not help me with your comments and inputs - email me here.

ANNOYING - What Bugs Me is The Lack of Attention to Detail and Quality

Coming back from overseas, from stepping off the plane to getting half way back to Pretoria, I saw two serious issues that indicate a lack of attention!

The first:

photo by Digivu
(Creative Commons Some Limitations License)

I suspect this reflects the absence of FIFA, to keep civil servants on their toes - they revert to not worrying. Alongside the very good posters for South Africa's UNESCO Heritage Sites we use valuable advertising space to misinform tourists!

photo by Engineering News

Then on the beautiful already completed 4 lane freeway (down to barriers, road markings, cat's eyes and street lights) the 80km/h signs are left standing on the 11 km from Pomona Road - no one has thought to take them down and give the hassled motorists some relief!