Monthly Archives: February 2007

Wanted: R180 million for an ARS

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2007

One (or more) of the posts that disappeared into the black hole which was 123-reg.co.uk’s hosting disaster was on the World Cup, which is due to make landfall here in a mere 3 years from now. Currently, there is a little confusion over whether Cape Town will actually get to see any football played here [...]

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Childcare 101

By 6000 | 6000 | February 27, 2007

While checking up on the news from back home in the Republic of South Yorkshire, I came across a story detailing how an 18-month old toddler had injured his mother by putting an aerosol under the grill. The aerosol – somewhat predictably – then exploded in her face and she ended up with some (probably [...]

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Back to the future (sort of)

By 6000 | 6000 | February 26, 2007

I found a web-based version of HG Wells’ infamous Time Machine (thanks Ender) which has allowed me to relive certain moments of my life over the last 4 years. Sadly for you, it also means that I can let you relive them too, and thus the slow and tedious task of putting all that archived [...]

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Banner-tastic

By 6000 | 6000 | February 22, 2007

I’m well used to people looking at me, shaking their heads, a pitying look in their eyes, telling me: “You need help. Seriously.” But as I go back to chatting to my tuberculosis bacteria, singing the Cookie Jar song and chasing lesbian mice around the lab (long story), I have to think that they don’t [...]

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Guess who’s found a cure for AIDS now!

By 6000 | 6000 | February 21, 2007

There is a terrible disease sweeping across Africa. OK – there are several of them, but this one is really nasty. The symptoms include false hope, political gain and setting HIV/AIDS programmes back immeasurably. We’ve mentioned South Africa’s own dear Health Minister – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang – on this site on more than one occasion, including [...]

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