Aquila pronounced AK-weh-lah, uh-KWILL-uh or even a-kee-laa, means eagle in Latin. Just like the eagle, this blog is my “bird’s eye view” on situations or topics that I happen to come across in my life.
// April 7th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // News, Tech
Clearly I’ve been working too hard, ‘cos I missed this news release back in January already. But better late than never to say I want a Garmin nüvifone.
Garmin has gone and created a touchscreen device that combines a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and personal navigator into one sleek package, the Garmin nüvifone. Granted, on looks alone it may not be an i-Phone killer but it is really in a class of its own.
// April 6th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // News, Tech
Those of you active on Facebook and other ‘media‘ may have seen this, but I thought I’d also share this with the regulars (hi mom!) still reading this blog.
By now we are all painfully aware of Eskom’s scheduled power cuts or load shedding and as frustrating as it is, it’s just something we’ll have to deal with for the foreseeable future. Until we all do our bit to reduce at least 10% of our power consumption, rolling power cuts will be part of South African life.
That being said, it also helps to be prepared for the scheduled load shedding and since
One such website is MyEnergy, that provides a nifty (and very small) desktop monitoring utility that allows you to keep track of Eskom’s schedules for multiple locations.
This is great, as you can track the schedules for say Northriding (home) and Sandton (work) and many others from the same utility.
In addition to allowing users to monitor schedules of relevant locations, MyEnergy Monitor allows users to specify custom actions to take upon the detection of a scheduled power outage. These include a simple desktop notification, automatic computer shutdown and, for system administrators and developers, windows event log writing.
Once downloaded and installed, the MyEnergy monitor is quite simple to use and as stated above, gives you access to a couple of nice features. Thus far it’s been quite a novel and I’m interested to see what the week brings.
Keep track of updates via the MyEnergy blog or the MyEnergy Facebook group.
Happy camping…
// March 28th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Music, News
Heard some awesome tunes playing at Doppio Zero in Bellair mall earlier this week and was very surprised to find out that it was a local band. A further bonus to find out that they frequently perform live at this eatery.
Will be doing a review in the next couple of days, so stay tuned.
// February 28th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Cars & Bikes, News
I was quite surprised to hear this morning that Boyd Coddington, owner of the Boyd Coddington Hot Rod Shop and star of American Hot Rod passed away on February 27, 2008.
Being a bit of a Discovery channel afficionado, I quite enjoy shows like American Hot Rod, American Chopper, Overhaulin’ and others. Not for the fact that these shows, with the exception of Overhaulin’, have most of the show bleeped out, but for the art, skill and sheer passion these guys and girls display for cars and bikes.
Coddington, who’s apprentices included stars like Jesse James and Chip Foose and signature cars include the Alumatub, Silver Bullet, Vern Luce’s coupe and Cadzillais is definitely a legend in the car-building industry and will surely be missed.
// February 6th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Blog Awards, News
It’s that time of the year again when all guns come out blazing in the 2008 SA Blog Awards shootout.
Nominations open from 11 February 2008 to 22 February 2008, where after voting starts from Monday 3 March 2008 till midnight Friday 14 March 2008. Winners will be announced at the final awards ceremony on 3rd April.
No less than 26 categories in this year’s awards, including the new sections such as Most Controversial Blog, Best Undiscovered Blog and Best Post about the SA Blog Awards to name but a few.
Now leave your boxing gloves at home and keep this a clean fight. May the best blogger win.
PS: Why not nominate and vote for me while you’re at it
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