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		<title>Cereously!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceres! &#160;We&#8217;re going to Ceres! &#160;NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft is enroute and should arrive in February 2015. &#160;Considering we&#8217;ve known about it for over 2 centuries and it 3 times closer than Saturn and 10 times closer than Neptune and their moons, I&#8217;ve always been very surprised to see the fuzzy images we have of it.

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Mac Mini Crashed Owing to Depression!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was busy reading an article on Star Stryder about the current economic trends in education.  It&#8217;s an astronomy blog by Pamela Gay.  I got half way through and decided to got to bed and finish it in the morning.  When I can back to my trusty 20-foetsak mac mini the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulsars &#8211; Mind Boggling Beasties</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve refined my idea of what I&#8217;m trying to achieve with my astronomy posts.
I want to inspire awe, curiousity and child-like wonder!
Today I was reading about neutron stars.  Now a neutron star is a dead star, thus doesn&#8217;t have any fuel to burn.  It has about the mass of our sun and consists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Astronomical Perspective and Software to Help!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My renewed interest in astronomy a couple of months ago was sparked when I started listening to some introductory lecutres available freely onine.  I then found out about the  public lectures given at the South African Astronomical Observatory.  These are given to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy which marks 400 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomy Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since rediscovering astronomy I&#8217;ve found some awesome resources for beginners that I have personally listened to and read.  Hope you enjoy!
Lectures

Astronomy 161 An Introduction to Solar System Astronomy (OSU)
Astronomy 162 An Introduction to Stars, Galaxies and the Universe (OSU)
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
Astronomy 160 Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

Podcasts

Astronomy Cast
Slacker Astronomy

Blogs

 Star Stryder &#8211; Pamela Gay
Universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Paul Graham writes better than me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know who Paul Graham is, here&#8217;s a quick primer:
He&#8217;s is a coder and he started and sold a Internet Startup company during the .com bubble and sold it for a handsome sum.  He&#8217;s now a internet startup guru and the co-founder of Y Combinator , writer(Hackers and Painters), essayist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been diggin&#8217; on TWiST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve always been interested in how things work and how they&#8217;re built which usually resulted in thinking up new ways to build things and the internet has channeled a lot of my creativity the last few years partly because building things online requires less physical recsources.  I&#8217;ve recently been toying with the idea to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomy my old friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve recentlty started listening to Astronomy Cast, an amazing podcast about astronomy.  It reminded me that space was my first remembered love!  I was always fascinated with planets, asteroids and stars.   One of my earliest dreams was to be the first person on Mars.  “A facts-based journey through the Cosmos helping you undersstand not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenacity of Life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went walking above constantia and found these gems:




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		<title>The Beauty of Afrikaans!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 09:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Love Afrikaans!
I went-a-walking in Table Mountain Reserve a week ago, above the Constantia Valley and came across this gem!
For those who don&#8217;t know Afrikaans &#8220;Aambeibossie&#8221; translates to &#8220;haemorrhoid bush&#8221; but in the image it gives the English name as &#8220;Christmas Berry&#8221;!  That&#8217;s comedy!
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		<title>Intro blog post</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 23:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! My name is Dale Botha and welcome to my blog!  As you may have guessed, I&#8217;m curious! (both definitions!)
I was always the guy in class that asked too many “apparently“ stupid questions (which, when answered, actually weren&#8217;t so stupid..i&#8217;d like to think).  I also used to take things apart, a lot, to see how [...]]]></description>
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