Author Archives: 6000

Doubling up

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2010

After the huge success of the opening football match at the Cape Town Stadium, the next test comes tomorrow when the crowd limit is doubled from the 20,000 that watched the football to 40,000 for the Stormers v Boland rugby clash. And while they are testing the stadium for World Cup readiness, I am going to [...]

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3000 photos from civilisation…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

I have just noticed that I have a total of 3,000 items on my flickr. Cue the celebrations. This image of Alex “doing magic” (his words when he saw the photo) yesterday evening was amongst the upload that got me to 3,000 items. Statpr0n: Of the 3,000 items, 22 are videos and 2,978 are photos, [...]

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Peter Delmar – Greed killing our World Cup prospects

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

Following on from my Ashanti Lodge post (and their manager’s “charmless reply“), this from Peter Delmar in The Times yesterday: You can stay at the two-star B&B for under R600 a night per room, including breakfast, which is about as much as it’s worth. But, the proprietor told me, she was doubling the price for the [...]

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We can take them breakfast

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2010

The innocence of kids. It blows me away sometimes. Yesterday evening was one of those times. Having picked the boy up from his grandmother’s, where he had spent an exciting afternoon mainly eating, playing snap and eating, we were on our way home via the M3 and then slipping down the Constantia Main Road off-ramp. At the [...]

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Why I don’t believe

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2010

The internet is full of weird and wonderful places. Personally, I generally prefer the wonderful to the weird, but it’s often interesting to have a sprinkling of both. One of the weirder elements on the web are the anti-vaccination, 9/11 conspiracy theorist, anti-establishment, Zionist-rule, anti-Global Warming, Big Brother Is Watching You sites. I’m talking about stuff like [...]

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