Category Archives: from your comments

Too close to home

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2011

Several emails and tweets asking why I am not blogging about the Luke Fairweather story. It’s a reasonable question. Thanks for asking. Occasionally  - just occasionally – there are topics which I would LOVE to blog about, but am unable to. These are generally specific and local issues which are linked somehow to what we [...]

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Possibly the best spam comment I have read this year!?!

By 6000 | 6000 | January 1, 2011

As caught by Akismet this morning: 2011/01/01 at 3:05 am Anton xigvnjtnv@live.com IP 207.219.39.35 Possibly the best blog post I have read this year?!? It seems that  Anton hasn’t been reading a hell of a lot in the first 185 minutes of 2011. Or maybe he just has impeccably low standards. Either way, I think [...]

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Gurufail

By 6000 | 6000 | December 28, 2010

After this (from The Guru), came this (from The Guru): Except, apparently The Guru can’t read all that good – it actually starts at 2AM CAT on the 28th. Which now means that I’m not allowed to post tomorrow (this currently being today, the day before tomorrow), but I can now post today and schedule [...]

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The Soutpiel conundrum

By 6000 | 6000 | December 15, 2010

I get called a lot of names because of this blog. Some are nice, but probably most are not. The less pleasant ones dribble limply into the metaphorical pond, like water off a duck’s back. But there’s one which is fairly regularly used each and every time I make any criticism of South Africa (that being the [...]

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Other places…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 20, 2010

I’ve been here and there around the internet this last few days, so I thought I’d share what I’d found with you, hunter-gatherer style. Firstly – one of my favourite bloggers. Yes, it’s Brian Micklethwait and his ongoing battle with technology – or just recording devices in this case: Maybe I can get Cobden Centre [...]

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