My view of the world and anything that might interest me.
Sometime I am just speeceless when I see photographs that are taken about space object. Take the photo of Comet Lovejoy against the Earth’s horizon. NASA astronaut and Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank photographed the dazzling comet as it hung above the Earth’s horizon yesterday (Dec. 21). The green haze is known as “airglow.”
I have just one word for it … WOW
Just returned from a business trip to Johannesburg and I have to wade through more than 4700 RSS items in my feedreader. As you can imagine, I am just going to mark a lot as read and skip over them.
Here is some that I did not skip over.
Today’s photo is an amazing eruption of a volcano: 
Credit & Copyright: Patrick Taschler
I am trying out the latest beta of Windows Live Writer and so far it seems to be good. One little annoying thing is that the window for inserting Tags is a modal-window which means you cannot have it open to add tags while writing the blog.
While trying to recover from flu/cold and having time going through my RSS Feeds, here are some tidbits:
Space Shuttle Endeavour cuts a bright swath through the dark sky during this night-time launch in January 1998. Nearly six years earlier on Sept. 12, 1992, Endeavour blasted off, carrying Dr. Mae Jamison, the first African-American woman to fly in space, and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut on a shuttle mission.
Image Credit: NASA
Hope all of you worn your casual day stickers and contributed your bit.
Today is also the start of the Rugby World Cup being held in France. As a patriotic South African I do support the Boks … good luck to them and I honestly think they have the team to bring the cup back.
Now for my feed entries:
One of Jupiters icy moons — Europa:
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Yesterday was supposedly the start of Spring, well you could have fooled me. Not here in Cape Town, it was raining and very winter like.
Onto my RSS feed items for today:
With the eclipse earlier this week, I came across this photo. Click on the image for more information.
Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka
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It is Blog day today so I have to blog. From my RSS Feed reader today:
Table Mountain close up from upper Cape Town:
Image: Marius Bock taken with a Nokia N80
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I am back with another update after a hectic week back at week. Why does everything come to a standstill when one goes on leave?
So here it is:
It is flower season in the Northern Cape so some flower beauty for you. Click on the image for some more photos and information.
Photos courtesy of Heleen Paxton in Strandfontein. Regards from Namaqualand, Daisy Tel; 027 692 3041 www.hondeklip.co.za
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Today is the last day of my leave. Was good to have a break away from work and just clear the mind. Enjoy today’s tidbits from my RSS feedreader.
Back to the Space Station.
Image credit: NASA
During the third spacewalk astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson (out of frame) relocated the S-Band Antenna Sub-Assembly from Port 6 (P6) to Port 1 (P1) truss, installed a new transponder on P1 and retrieved the P6 transponder.
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It is a glorious sunny day in Cape Town so before I hit the road, something to keep you busy for the day.
STS-118 Shuttle mission:
Image: Nasa
This view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour clearly shows its payload bay and upper surfaces.
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