Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
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Ever wondered why your bags take so long to come through the baggage claim at Heathrow? Well, now we know!
I took this a couple of days ago while waiting for mine. The screen proudly announced that this carousel came with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Well, that's good to know.
You probably thought your monitor/TV was pretty cool. But I think you'll agree that it was only because you hadn't seen these...
I saw a 'stealth boat' today for the first time.
If you're a Bond villain and need to pinch one of these for your daily commute, this one can be found in San Diego harbour. If you look very carefully.
I saw my first 100 Mpixel display today, on a visit to Calit2 at UCSD.
It's 55 standard displays, with a bank of Linux machines to drive them. So the pixels are the same size as on your normal display, but you need to walk around to examine the whole image. Very cool.
Click the picture for a couple more images.
Cambridge is blossoming. And I can’t stop taking photos…
I climbed Table Mountain today. It's not too strenuous a climb, really, but the temperature (around 90F today) made it more of a challenge. There was almost no shade on the way up; this photo is from one of the few spots which was out of the noonday sun:
I met this chap on the top. He seemed remarkably unconcerned by the proximity of humans.
On the slopes of Table Mountain...
A fountain at Montecasino, which is Johannesburg's (somewhat mild) answer to Las Vegas. Pretty fountain, though.
Yesterday I visited Soweto. Among the shanty-town-type areas this was one of the more palatial residences:
We visited one of the smaller one-room houses and met this man and his wife:
He said it was a good house because it was very close to the water pipe:
There was one bed, which most of the family shared, and he slept on a straw mat on the floor.
Beside the straw mat on the floor was his mobile phone, with headphones plugged in so he could listen to MP3 files.
