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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

Tags: soccer worldcup Cape Town South Africa

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July 1

World Cup 2010: BBC base in Cape Town

I have been meaning to post this link for a week now - but couldn’t find a way to embed the video - and I still can’t, so I am just going to pop the link right here and hope you really link-though and watch this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8736315.stm

Seriously folks, the BBC set-up they installed in Cape Town, just for the world cup, is very-very impressive. Wow!

Tags: BBC Cape Town South Africa worldcup

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May 31

Cape Town Stadium with Table Mountain as the backdrop

This looks like a fine place to live!

Tags: Cape Town South Africa FIFA soccer football

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Cape Town Stadium at night

I always love lighting effects!

Tags: Cape Town South Africa FIFA soccer football

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May 30

Cape Town Stadium from above

Stunning! Wish my lawn looked like that!

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Isn’t it a beaut!

Click-through and let the full-size photo fill you screen - and admire!

via www.capetown.gov.za

Tags: Cape Town South Africa football soccer FIFA stadium

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May 27

Cape Town’s unfinished highway gets a giant Vuvuzela

via Hyundai’s Giant Vuvuzela

Tags: vuvuzela Cape Town South Africa FIFA football

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January 21

360 degree Virtual Tour of Cape Town’s new Stadium

Please click the Full Screen option on the top right

Tags: Cape Town South Africa Stadium World Cup

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December 13

Highest Definition picture of Cape Town, South Africa

This is pretty cool. 205,000 pixels wide!

1850 images, each 10 megs in size, all stitched together.

Tags: Cape Town South Africa photography

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December 2

Realtime Energy Consumption Monitoring for World Cup 2010 Draw in Cape Town

This is a great initiative! Go to http://www.measure2manage.co.za and watch the realtime stats of how much energy is consumed during the draw process.

From their website:

“Eskom has partnered with the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) and embarked on an energy saving initiative, ‘Measure 2 Manage’, which will measure energy consumption in real-time from 30 November to 7 December, 2009, monitoring the pre-draw and final-draw activities taking place at the CTICC.”