Pointless Pointing

By 6000 | 6000 | May 21, 2013

HELLO POINTER POINTER! GOODBYE PRODUCTIVITY!

Bad news if you wanted to get anything worthwhile done this morning – here’s Pointer Pointer.

No real… er… point to this, but putting it in a nutshell, plonk your cursor somewhere on the screen and within a couple of seconds, a photo of an (often drunk) individual or individuals will appear, pointing at your pointer.

Give it a go. Top left is my particular favourite so far.

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…but I’m sure there are literally hundreds of others to discover, so I’m going to get back to discovering them right now.

Go play.

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If you can’t read this…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 20, 2013

If you’re having trouble getting through to 6000 miles… it’s because (and here I quote):

There is high load on the server, causing requests to be slow (and timeout) even though the server is up.

This was also the case last Wednesday, last Thursday and last Friday. And again this morning.

Afrihost, who were previously the shining example of service and stability have really disappointed me since I moved my hosting over there. And yes, I would move everything somewhere else, but

  1. It’s an absolute schlep to organise another move. I don’t have time, ability or patience, and
  2. Is anywhere really better? For every good report on a hosting solution, there is someone warning against using it.

Afrihost have told me that they are “in the process” of upgrading their servers, which should stop this timeout problem from occurring. In the meantime, if you see that “6000.co.za took too long to respond”, please keep trying. I’m still here, even if you can’t see me.

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Beeg wave

By 6000 | 6000 | May 19, 2013

I was emailed this picture and I want to share it on here because I think it’s fairly spectacular:

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(It also features a lighthouse, and I like lighthouses.)
A little bit of detective work led me to this guy – Veselin Malinov – and a quick look at his recent photostream indicates that this shot was anything but a chance effort.
There are some amazing photos on there and it’s well worth popping over if you have a few minutes to spare.

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In case you need to be told

By 6000 | 6000 | May 18, 2013

Because some of my FB friends do: Likes don’t save lives.

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That’s the tagline of a new campaign by UNICEF in Sweden. They’re encouraging people do donate money rather than just click a button. Because while the clicks are absolutely lovely, they don’t actually do anything. They’re just an easy way to pretend you’re making a difference. It’s slacktivism at its worst.

Of course, far fewer people will put their money where their click was. But it’s worth remembering that even a single cent is still worth more to charity than any number of those likes.

(Oh, and while we’re on the subject, actually, “one like ? one prayer”, although both are worthless, as mentioned above, it’s likely to do about as much good. i.e. none.)

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