Category Archives: admin

Stupid forms

By 6000 | 6000 | May 30, 2009

Ah, the divine VAF1B. I’ve spent my entire morning filling in three of them to apply for UK visas for my wife, my son and my daughter. Ten pages per application, with crippling repetition, bizarrely detailed requests for bizarre details and stupid questions galore. For example: In times of either peace or war have you ever been [...]

14 Comments | Also posted in learning curve, the parenting bunny, this is south africa, uk

A couple of Micklethwaits

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2009

I was drawn to Brian Micklethwait’s blog archives in search of this staircase (don’t ask) and while there, started reading and stumbled upon these photographs taken in Bethnel Green last February.    As I have mentioned before, I enjoy Brian’s photography. It’s unpretentious, often imaginative, sometimes cheeky, occasionally rather clever. And then explained or narrated in much [...]

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Baby Admin post

By 6000 | 6000 | May 8, 2009

Do these count? Of course they do. I have added the tweetmeme plugin to my vast range of WordPress plugins which make my life easier and make your reading enjoyment all the more… enjoyable. If you’re active on twitter (and let’s face it, these days, who isn’t?) you can now retweet the content that you see [...]

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Added Ads

By 6000 | 6000 | May 4, 2009

I was gently going about my business yesterday afternoon, only mildly depressed by the scorelines of earlier football matches, when someone (I’m not sure who it was) tweeted about earning money from their blog and how they weren’t, but they felt that they should be. It got me thinking. 6000 miles…has always been about the [...]

14 Comments | Tagged |Also posted in economic issues, learning curve

Advance warning

By 6000 | 6000 | April 12, 2009

I’m tearing myself away from Mythbusters and Kari Byron in a superhero outfit to give you advance warning that I’m heading out early tomorrow to Somerset West and the beautiful Lourensford Wine Estate for the 2009 CokeZeroFest, featuring the local musical talents of Zebra & Giraffe, The Dirty Skirts, Cassette, Foto na Dans and aKing together with international [...]

2 Comments | Tagged , , |Also posted in flickr, music
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