Tag Archives: uk

Secrets of the fixture computer

By 6000 | 6000 | April 17, 2012

After a question from @chickenruby yesterday evening, I found myself wandering back onto Paul Fletcher’s 2009 blog post, detailing the immense amount of thought that has to go into organising the fixtures for the English football leagues. Thankfully, Paul did the work so we don’t have to: I wanted to find out exactly how the [...]

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Searching, for that something that I’ll never find…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

(with apologies to China Black) Just occasionally, I check to see what serach terms have been used to find 6000 miles… over the last few weeks. They’re usually pretty obvious – this time there was a lot of stuff about load-shedding, that concert “next year”, the inevitable weeing on your bougainvillea and, as ever, some [...]

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Political Soundbite of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2011

We don’t do politics very often on 6000 miles…, but we are more than happy to share excellent political soundbites like this one whenever they come along: So all the UK is isolated from is an impending disaster: the eurozone will fragment with countries leaving and debt defaults. It is like being as isolated as [...]

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Private Eye on shale gas

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2011

South Africa isn’t the only country to have potentially economy-changing amounts of shale gas underneath it. The UK has some too. According to the usually politically-left In The Back section of Private Eye magazine: Cuadrilla, the gas exploration company drilling for shale gas in Lancashire, has announced its discovery of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas – a [...]

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Out of the bad

By 6000 | 6000 | August 9, 2011

Out of the bad, and it is bad – ridiculously, stupidly, embarrassingly bad – comes some good. Step forward, photoshoplooter, whereby images of heinous acts committed over the last few days are turned, via the medium of Photoshop, into embarrassing identikits of the guilty parties. I could do stuff like this. All I need is [...]

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