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Spandau Ballet tonight

By 6000 | 6000 | May 5, 2010

Off to watch these Golden Oldie legends of the 80′s this evening at Grand West this evening: I’m pretty sure that they’ll do this song and their other really big hit True. Hopefully the somewhat upbeat tempo of the former won’t break the aging members of the band and prevent the rest of the gig [...]

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Pwned.

By 6000 | 6000 | April 26, 2010

As a biologist, I know that if you want to know what something does in a biological system, you remove it and see what happens. Usually, this results in a mouse dying. Seacom decided to see what happened to South Africa today when routine maintenance work on an internet cable ran over by… ooh… ages and then observed [...]

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Gym and Haircuts

By 6000 | 6000 | April 17, 2010

On my recent post about returning to gym after a prolonged (4 years) absence, I got a comment from Damien Tomaselli, a personal trainer, a part of which I have faithfully reproduced here: I’m a personal trainer. I like to know what peoples attitudes towards exercise/gym are. You mentioned you don’t like the people at [...]

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Race war still not happening

By 6000 | 6000 | April 16, 2010

After the recent hugely disappointing news that South Africa’s eagerly anticipated (by the press) Race War had been postponed due to a lack of protagonists sunshine, many people have been getting in touch with us here at 6000 miles… asking when exactly the rearranged date for the Race War is. Well, I was heading out to buy [...]

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All is calm

By 6000 | 6000 | April 5, 2010

Remember Easter in 2007? No – me neither. But I found a nice sunset picture from back then that I thought might be appropriate for a quick quota photo this evening. It’s quiet, serene, beautiful: calm. South Africa has made it safely and quietly through two days since the death of Eugene Terre’Blanche. It’s a good start. [...]

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