Monthly Archives: November 2007

The doctor will see you now…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 30, 2007

Here’s the post that I was going to put onto 6000 miles last night, but couldn’t. Ha – you’d thought you’d escaped, didn’t you? No. No-one escapes the long arm of Doctor Perez… In the letter box this morning… Dr Perez – He can do magic. (click for bigger) May I draw your attention in [...]

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6000 on tour?

By 6000 | 6000 | November 30, 2007

And lo, it came to pass that fasthosts.co.uk messed up on hosting 6000 miles from civilisation due to “security issues” which took us all briefly back to the mid 19th century. I may expand on these issues later. I may not. It all depends. Firstly on whether they can be speedily resolved and secondly on whether [...]

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Guy MacLeod of Plumstead – an inspiration

By 6000 | 6000 | November 29, 2007

*subject to ongoing editing*  Hi – I’m playing with old posts from the ballacorkish.net site.  You may have read this previously. Feel free to read it again though. Especially as Sunday approaches. I’ve been busy and disinclined to write much on here of late. Until now. My writer’s block has been lifted, cured, relieved if [...]

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There goes the science bit

By 6000 | 6000 | November 20, 2007

I caught sight of something on Page 3 of my newspaper today that made me smile. It’s ok. It wasn’t The Sun. No, in the Cape Times, under the punchy headline: Scientists expose pseudoscience in extravagent claims made by advertisers [link] I learnt about this organisation, The Voice Of Young Scientists. Young Scientists, I used [...]

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Speechless…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 15, 2007

Another enforced break, but this time for all the right reasons. A trip to Pringle Bay, some 70km outside Cape Town, with Grandma and Granddad for some well deserved rest and relaxation (Nix and I) and some serious running around, penguin chasing, sandcastle building and general industriousness by Alex. You can see several of these [...]

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