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25-08-2011
We all learned at school that absolute power corrupts absolutely; so, another dictator has fallen, doubtless with more to come. But perhaps we should all be wary of the great deceit, which is that different automatically equates with better; history tends toward the reality of another truth, that all may truly change, but at precisely the same time all may well remain the same. Something to do with human nature I presume to suggest ?

22-08-2011

To write or not to write, that is the question, or rather one of them. The marvels of the communication revolution are beyond even my most basic understanding, and how is it that the entire road map of Europe can be condensed into a mere piece of plastic marked 2G, or 500 movies can disappear into a "terabyte", or even my entire photo album, or indeed library of DVD into a mere 8G ? It's really all very intimidating to know that an entire world can disappear into the breast pocket of m

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