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Facebook suffers from 'big business' arrogance

May 20th, 2009

Apparently Facebook have had the cheek to move some Welsh cities and towns into England. The cheek of it! see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8052252.stm. I groaned when I read 'Some users e-mailed the US-based site since Friday to alert it to the error.' What email address did they use? I spent over an hour on Facebook trying and failing to discover an email address to inform them that one of their 'recommended' friend suggestions was a person who has sadly passed away.

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Boffins don't have all answers

May 15th, 2009

It is amazing how many people take scientists as the unquestionable experts. Some of us know that some times there are vested interests where scientists are 'pushed' towards certain conclusions, usually to attract funding. You also have the ones that seem to research the bleeding obvious and those that seem to serve no useful purpose but to keep the boffins busy. Make up your mind on this story but it does prove many answers still elude us.

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The meaning of karma

May 1st, 2009

I tend to use the word karma to describe the calm, peaceful balance. Something that disturbs this state is said to be upsetting my karma. I recently decided to look it up the proper meaning of the word and am horrified to discover that it doesn't mean anything like that at all. I am not sure where my interpretation of it came and that got me to thinking as to how best to describe this search.

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