Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

Popular Cape Town website gets new look

By 6000 | 6000 | June 9, 2010

The local internet is abuzz with rumour and supposition regarding a much rumoured and supposed overhaul of hugely popular Cape Town website Two Oceans Tribe. Said Two Oceans Tribe editor-in-chief Steff Rottingham: It’s true – we’re Nomu getting a makeover. We realised it was time for Puma a change a while ago. Some of the content was beginning [...]

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World Cup Issues

By 6000 | 6000 | June 4, 2010

A couple of World Cup images that caught my interest today. Firstly, The Onion reports on an error that I’m shocked no-one had spotted before: No wonder the Germans (and the Italians) (and the Spanish) (etc etc) are complaining about it. And then, a little more seriously (I hope) the SABC Building, patriotically illuminated: Look [...]

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She’s still dead

By 6000 | 6000 | June 2, 2010

It’s been almost 13 years since that fateful night back in 1997 when Di and Dodi died. I love putting it like that, it sounds like a 1970′s folk song. I imagine a bearded guitarist with a headband in a faded photograph singing “La la lah, la, la. Di dodi died”. But that’s another story. [...]

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Not endorsed by me

By 6000 | 6000 | May 29, 2010

I’m a huge fan of crustaceans. I think they look great at the aquarium and I think they look even better on my braai. I enjoy watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery. My family has close links to the sea and fishing and thus, so when I heard that there was a website in the UK [...]

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Accident at OR Tambo leaves World Cup flights in jeopardy

By 6000 | 6000 | May 26, 2010

Bad news incoming from our obviously disgruntled 6000 miles… correspondent in Jo’burg: Damnit. Finally, it stops bloody raining and now it’s freezing cold. And not only am I still stuck in this godforsaken hole with its ugly mine dumps, extremely thin air and icy mornings, but now I have to file a report on an accident at the airport here which [...]

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