Category Archives: positive thoughts

Ivo backs me, rubbishes Christine’s Brilliant Idea

By 6000 | 6000 | April 13, 2011

The eagerly-awaited “fracking the Karoo” column from Daily Maverick “Opinionista” Ivo Vegter has finally arrived, bringing with it further discussion of the dubious brainwashing tactics used by the anti-frackers (Lewis Pugh, TKAG et al). It’s nice to see that Ivo has finally jumped on-board with 6000 miles… after our previous differerences over… well… everything, really. [...]

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Don’t say I’m not green!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 1, 2011

There are those who come onto this blog and accuse me of hating the environment. Maybe it’s because they have misread, not read or simply misunderstood my viewpoints on whales, dolphins and natural gas extraction. It’s not the case. I do care deeply for the environment and I do all that I (reasonably) can to protect and [...]

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Fracking follow-up

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Arguing over whether people actually read stuff before commenting on it (they don’t) is so last week, and thus it’s time to add a couple more thoughts from my fracking post, which was ever so trendy (like Lewis Pugh was last week). Firstly, there were a couple (literally two) objections to my use of the [...]

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Bad with boomerangs

By 6000 | 6000 | March 28, 2011

From xkcd: That’s what you get when your favourite blogger is trying to write while watching James May chatting about Robotics on the Open University via BBC Knowledge. I’m actually not too bad with a boomerang, although I’ve only used the modern day equivalent.

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Massive Multitouch Microscope

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2011

There’s things I want… There’s things I think I want… So sang the Stereophonics back in 1999. This falls into both those categories. For me, anyway. I have no idea whether the Stereophonics would be at all interested. Finnish researchers have created a new interface for laboratory science that allows researchers to pan and zoom around [...]

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