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About Marius

Owner of Henriska Technology and Project Manager by profession.

Drives of a Lifetime

Posted on 15 May 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

National Geographic put together a list of what they reckon is drives one should take. Quoting from them:

Sometimes it’s the journey, sometimes it’s the destinationâ€”and sometimes, it’s both. National Geographic Traveler has scoured the globe for the world’s most beautiful, interesting, and off-beat road trips. Dive in to get drive directions, quizzes, photos, and more.

They included drives in Italy, Canada, Hawai, America and much more. However I could not find any from South Africa. Here I immediately think of paces like the Sani Pass. Are there any that you think should be on this list?

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Dove on my stoep

Posted on 10 May 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

A day or so ago this dove was sitting on the railing of my balcony.

It was there before but everytime I opened the door to take a photo it flew away. This time when I opened the door it just stayed there. I first thought there was something wrong with the dove but when I got real close to it, it flew off.

A day or so later, the same dove was visiting again and again it did not flew away when I opened the door. I walked around on the balcony and it just watched me. Think this dove is taking a liking in me.

More photos from my new best friend – yes I know it is a bird.

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How big is big ….

Posted on 4 May 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Very interesting figures about IT companies via Pingdom.

Revenue

Profit

Assets

Employees

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Sunset after rain and thunder

Posted on 24 April 2009 by Marius — 1 Comment ↓

After the rain and thunder of yesterday, I knew that sunset must be something different. And I was not wrong. I took this photos looking east, opposite direction of the setting sun. I love the picture above with the different cloud colours .. the reddish part that pick up the reflection of the setting sun the then the white pieces that was hidden from the sun.

More here – My Photo Gallery – Sunset

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Low hanging clouds – winter is coming

Posted on 23 April 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

On Tygerberg Hill are some radio masks and this morning one of the masks was sticking out above the clouds.

It is an overcast day here in Cape Town and the air is starting to get nippy. Winter is on its way but there is something not right with the weather here in the Cape. What is this with the thunder this morning and it is not the first time this month. We are not suppose to get thunder and lightning here in the Cape.

More photos here: My Photo Gallery – Clouds

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Geese on a chimney

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

I found these Egyptian Geese (at least I think they are) on the chimney of a neighbours house this morning.

More photos can be found here: My Photo Gallery

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SA Elections 2009 — done my part

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Marius — 3 Comments ↓

I got the mark to prove 🙂

Went voting at Kido Kids in Van Riebeeckshof at around 9:15 and was done in about 20 minutes. Everything went as smooth as clock work, even for voters from other districts and provinces (they could only vote national). The only party I saw at the station I voted at was the DA as shown in this picture.

For those that has not voted yet, use your constitutional right and go and vote. Remember by not voting you also loose the right to criticise and/or comment about anything South African.

More photos here: My Photo Gallery

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Emptiness and lonelyness.

Posted on 16 April 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

From I Wrote this for You. How true is this for so many people.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, Iâ€™ll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, Iâ€™ll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

Canon Powershot SX10 IS — playing with the zoom

Posted on 16 April 2009 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Today I played around with the zoom on my Canon SX10. Here are some of the results:

100mm F5.7 1/500s ISO200 Auto Metering: Pattern WB: Auto
This was taken at the maximum optical resolution of 20x (560mm equivalent) with no digital zoom. To give you an idea, this guinea fowl were about 200 meter from where I took the photo. Not bad at all.

This is the same quinea fowl as above and the photo was taken from exactly the same spot. Only difference was that I added 2.28x digital zoom to it. That is about 1276mm equivalent.

100mm F5.7 1/500s ISO200 Auto Metering: Pattern WB: Auto
To be honest, I was very surprised at the quality of the digital. One read and hear so much about how useless digital zoom is, but from the above it sure has its uses when one needs to get in closer to your subject.