Tag Archives: the guru

Blog Stuff

By 6000 | 6000 | July 4, 2011

“Blog Stuff” That was the subject of the email awaiting when I returned from a weekend “getting away from it all” – including cellphone signal – in the Southern Cape. After the trials and tribulations of the last week – only 1% of which concerned the blog crashing and burning and the other 99% of [...]

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Quota Photo Test

By 6000 | 6000 | July 1, 2011

I thought that once I* had repaired the file that I had damaged (which just so happens to be the file that underpins the entire blog on www.6000.co.za), that things would be ok. Not so. It seems that the file in question went out of its way to take other files down with it. Or… [...]

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Migration

By 6000 | 6000 | December 27, 2010

Incoming from The Guru: FYI, the server we’re on will be migrated to a new datacenter, starting 27/12 at around 2am our time. It’s unlikely that anything will break. The process could take as long as a couple of days, but might well be done by mid-morning on the same day. Regardless of duration, sites will be fully accessible [...]

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Man at work

By 6000 | 6000 | October 5, 2009

While you and I were living it up and drinking at the weekend, The Guru was also living it up and drinking. And then coding. Some say he codes better after a bottle of red wine. Or two. Some say they have never seen him wholly sober. All I know is that he is working damn hard to [...]

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Eighty

By 6000 | 6000 | October 2, 2009

Let’s slow things down a little. 120 is fine for normal daily run-of-the-mill decisions, but it’s not always good to rush into big things. Like major changes to the appearance of your beloved blog. While you guys have been examining my front end in minute detail, The Guru has been tinkering around behind my scenes, [...]

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