Category Archives: economic issues

Support the Running Doulas

By 6000 | 6000 | July 7, 2011

Hello readers. Here’s something you can help with: the Running Doulas. It sounds like some sort of comedy act (and in fact it may well turn out to be rather amusing to watch) but actually it’s two ladies doing something for a very good cause. Firstly, you may not be conversant with the word “Doula”. [...]

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Android is Blowing Everyone Away

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2011

That’s not my line up there in the title, it belongs to Business Insider, who published this astounding graph on their site yesterday. In my line of work, I’m well used to looking at graphs and attempting to observe subtle differences and trends within the data. This isn’t one of them though, is it? And [...]

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a SKA on the Karoo?

By 6000 | 6000 | July 5, 2011

Just a quick link to Ivo Vegter’s latest column on potential fracking in the Karoo and further inconsistencies in the argument against it. This time, Ivo takes aim at Jonathan Deal’s misleading poster which supposedly indicates the surface damage that fracking would cause, comparing it to the likely surface impact of the SKA project which [...]

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Capetonian woman continually surprised by events

By 6000 | 6000 | June 30, 2011

News just in: Capetonian Margaret Wilson (61) of Diep River, has admitted to being “almost permanently bewildered” by what she describes as “a continuous stream of surprising events” which she claims are plaguing her life. Yesterday, my son-in-law asked if I had registered the card in my cellphone. I asked him why I needed to [...]

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Byebye BB?

By 6000 | 6000 | June 19, 2011

This has been doing the rounds all over the internet since it came out last week, but it needs to be here too, just in case anyone missed it: Gizmodo’s Ten Reasons Why BlackBerry Is Screwed. While BB came out as the coolest brand amongst the youth in South Africa in the recent Sunday Times [...]

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