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Tonight, tonight

By 6000 | 6000 | February 22, 2011

(with apologies to the Smashing Pumpkins) I’m quite excited about tonight, as we’re secured tickets (via the medium of Computicket) to see Fascinating Aida at Camps Bay’s Theatre on the Bay (which is actually next to the bay and not on it at all). If you haven’t heard of Fascinating Aida, don’t worry. I was [...]

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OMG – The Streets

By 6000 | 6000 | February 20, 2011

I’ve been doing a lot of listening to The Streets’ new album Computers and Blues and I’m really enjoying it. I find that there are very few tracks which immediately jump out at me on albums of this genre: it’s always more about the lyrics than the catchy tunes, and one has to hear them a [...]

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Stuff I’m not doing

By 6000 | 6000 | February 17, 2011

Have some South African music – there’s a lot of good stuff around at the moment which deserves more exposure than it’s probably getting outside these borders. I can like to help with that a bit. This is Goodluck from Cape Town with their catchy tune Taking It Easy: and that’s exactly what I wish [...]

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The other ship

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2011

While the Queen Mary 2 was taking all the attention in Cape Town harbour, there was another, only ever so slightly less impressive ship docked here as well. The Picton Castle is a is a three-masted tall ship based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, but which sails around the world and is currently on its fifth circumnavigation, [...]

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Follow Twisst

By 6000 | 6000 | February 6, 2011

If you’re on twitter (and if you’re not, you probably should be) then may I recommend that you follow @twisst? Twisst is a twitter service that lets you know when the International Space Station is going to be passing your location. And there’s something rather magical about watching it pass overhead, silently and at 27,743.8 [...]

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