Monthly Archives: May 2008

Travel with your towel

by Mike K-H This started off as a travel-related blog, so let’s get back to travel. Galaxy travel. On 15 May 2001, Douglas Adams died of a heart attack. He was only 49 years old, but he left an indelible … Continue reading

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Trust me? Decide for yourself

by Mike K-H Do you have to see and hear someone before you really trust them? Several of my most trusted friends are people I’ve never seen, and there’s little chance that I’ll ever see them. I met them on … Continue reading

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This could be horrible…

It’s been a while since I checked what the Google Adsense folks have been up to. I created the previous post because I found an item that interested me in what they call referrals (most of us call them affiliate … Continue reading

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Brain games

More than memory training In my youth, there was Pelmanism. Since then, there have been many memory-training schemes and many books about them. However, not only has knowledge of how the brain works advanced since then, but we have access … Continue reading

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Fancy slide shows

It happens all the time. Technology takes a leap forward, and the users leap in a different direction from the one the designers predicted. The commonest mistake forecasters make is to underrate entertainment as a driver of applications. When dedicated … Continue reading

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