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  • 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers.

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  • Not much of a post, but more a comment. The current economic policies and trends are totally destroying the middle class. While the upper/rich class may be the “brain”  and the lower/poor class the “body” and “muscles” of society, the middle class is the “lungs” and “heart”. Mobility will never stop. Peoples will move up

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  • The Closing of 2009

    Just as I do every year, I sat down to write this post. I found it particularly difficult; you see, it was not a good year. I always try to focus on the bright aspects of the year that passed. This year is difficult.

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  • Thinking In Time And Space

    When I was a child I wanted to be a Theoretical Physicist. Maybe the fact that Albert Einstein was somebody I looked up to might have had something to do with it. However, looking back into it, he was an influence but not a determining factor. My father had a bigger hand in what I

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  • Getting Old

    Is it getting old or becoming old? When I turned 43 all of a sudden I realized my age. It is not as though 43 is really any older than 42. What hit me was the fact that I was over 40. I am officially entering my midlife. I am no longer amongst the youngest

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  • The Closing of 2008

    2008 has been a hard year for me. Not hard in the sense of bad, but hard in the sense of long, with comings and goings, hardships and uncertainties, a number of disappointments and many changes. And through all the year’s developments, my wife and kids have been there for me. I am one lucky…

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  • Ethics And Morality

    For a while now, I have been concerned with Ethics and Morality. What they mean,  how they relate to each other, how humanity interprets and implements them, whether they extend beyond humanity and planet Earth, the history of Ethics and Morality and how they have evolved through time. Ethics and Morality did not start with

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  • For The Nerds Like Me

    For the nerds like me out there … classic newsgroup post. Very cool. Click here for post

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  • Einstein said …

    “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” Sometimes I wonder …

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  • Charity Online

    Klaus Holzapfel of the Movie Bakery is running an online charity for Christmas based on videos they put together. It is easy to participate: Just go to their site (http://www.moviebakeryinaction.com) and watch the videos. You can also sponsor a video. He is donating the proceedings to a few of the children charities. Enjoy!!

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