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February Desktop

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2012

Wow. Was it just me and everyone else, or did January rush by like a seemingly quick month? All of which relativity means that it’s February and that in turn means number 2 in a series of… well… 2 so far of our monthly desktop wallpaper offerings for you. This one is part of the [...]

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Who’s Your Favourite?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 31, 2012

It’s a silly question for any parent dad to ask, but Maddie’s daddy just had to ask it, didn’t he? Just for the record, I have never asked either of my kids this. The answer would probably be too depressing or would put me (and them) in a very dangerous situation at home. Safety first…

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Neutron Star Facts

By 6000 | 6000 | January 30, 2012

I love science, me. But I struggled to get my head around this particular bunch of facts about Neutron Stars, which I happened across. As you do. A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 millilitres) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×1012 kg, (5 500 000 000 000 kg) about 900 times the [...]

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Tunnel of Love

By 6000 | 6000 | January 30, 2012

In a moment of nostalgia, I downloaded Dire Straits’ Making Movies album from1980 last week and it assisted in enjoying a heady weekend at the cottage. It seems only right that I should share some of it with you, so here’s 8 minutes of the remarkable Tunnel of Love, from an age when music videos [...]

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Goodbye Old Friends

By 6000 | 6000 | January 29, 2012

This is a sad post. I’m finally saying goodbye to my Nike Total 90 flops that I bought for [exorbitant] Rands, [several] years ago. If each dog year is worth seven human years, then each flop year must be worth about twenty. And the fact that these guys made it well into triple figures is [...]

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