Author Archives: Marius

About Marius

Owner of Henriska Technology and Project Manager by profession.

Photo outing – Magic Forrest Dam

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Close to where I live, Oude Westhoff, is a place called the Magic Forrest — you can see on the photo above.  Yesterday I spend some time taking some photos around the dam.

Even the kids have their makeshift boat but looks like it is a bit stuck in the reeds 🙂

Water cascading down the dam-wall – looks like it is somewhere in cold Europe with the water being iced up.

More photos can be seen in my gallery here.

All these photographs were taken with my Canon Powershot SX10 in Auto mode.  No post processing was done on them except reduced in size for displaying on this page.  The original photographs are in my gallery.

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Snow on the mountains

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As mentioned in my previous posting, my daughter spend the day in Stellenbosch writing admission tests.  Yesterday afternoon when I went to fetch her, I saw the snow covered mountain peeks.  Now you all know why it is so freezing cold here in Cape Town.

You can see the full scale image and more in my gallery here.

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Winter sunrise — cold but beautiful

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I had to get up very early this morning, taking my daughter to Stellenbosch to go write her acceptance tests today for studying at University next year.  On my way home, the sun was rising through the trees right in front of me.  I stopped and took some photos. 

You can find some more in my gallery here.

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This will do nicely in my Livingroom

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And I quote:

Maingear’s new Axess HD Gamer brings hardcore PC gaming into your living room with a Core i7 processor, up to 12GB of DDR3 memory, 2x NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT cards in SLI, a Phantom Lapboard and robust media center capabilities. More specifically, the Axess HD can include a Blu-ray drive, 8-channel HD audio, WIndows Vista Home Premium and up to 4TB of hard drive storage or, if you choose, dual 160GB SSDs. Connections include: DVI-D, VGA, HDMI and component out, dual gigabit ethernet, eight USB 2.0 ports, two 6-pin FireWire ports and eSATA. There is also the option of adding a TV Tuner (no CableCARD). Granted, the Axcess is highly configurable, and if you get this thing completely loaded it will cost you over $6,000

All I would change is replacing that Windows bit with Linux 🙂

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WordPress 2.8 RSS problem – caused by rouge plugin

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In my previous post on WP 2.8 I mentioned the RSS Fatal error problem.  I have found the cause of the problem and it is a plugin I use for the Lifestream page I have.  The plugin in question is SimpleLife – the version I am using is 1.3 which seem to be the latest.  The one on the WordPress.org site shows version 1.2 and the maintainers site gives a 404 error. 

I have disabled the plugin and now the RSS feed on the Admin Dashboard is working fine with no Fatal Error.  This has broken my Lifestream page.  Will go and find a similar plugin to populate the Lifestream page.

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