Category Archives: from the blogroll

Quote of the day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 22, 2009

From the always-entertaining Brian Micklethwait on the dangers of writing blog entries in advance and then getting them to automatically post while you’re away on holiday: I’ve never really felt right with that.  What if an atom bomb goes off, and there I am still blogging about, basically, kittens?  (I know, the internet would not [...]

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Akismet issues

By 6000 | 6000 | August 28, 2008

My Akismet anti-spam plugin has been misbehaving, seemingly since I upgraded to WordPress 2.6.1. This issue was indicated to me by (previously) regular commentor and all-round nice guy Del, who emailed me to say that he got a stream of computer-generated abuse each time he attempted to reply to a post. At first, I just assumed it [...]

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Brian and his failing neighbourhood

By 6000 | 6000 | August 14, 2008

One of the few sites I unfailingly enjoy reading is Brian Micklethwait’s eponymous blog. It has a unique combination of a blend of subjects and topics that generally interest me, together with an endearing, informal, almost narrative writing style. It’s easy, interesting, pleasurable reading. However, even by his usual high standards, I felt that Brian excelled himself earlier this week. And I would have written [...]

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Comfort in Sound…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 20, 2008

Hectic doesn’t really begin to describe it. Although, of course, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I used to get my comfort from sleep, but that seems to have become a distant memory of late, so in both my spare seconds, I’ve been trawling the interweb and popping into local “record” shops on my [...]

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The rise and rise of 6000

By 6000 | 6000 | May 18, 2008

 Time for an admin post, I think. Going up! I’m well aware that 6000 miles…is not a particularly big hitter in the blogging world, but obviously I’m doing something right. Check out my feedburner stats. Slow and steady, with a brief dip in December last year when I was left marooned by Fasthosts, but definitely [...]

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