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Small world, or fate?

Add comment November 10th, 2006

Sometimes, I don’t think the world can be as small as it seems to be. Sometimes something happens which just throws you.

I went with Deidre tonight to a function her organisation put on for its various departments. There must have been over 500 people there. That’s a lot of people in one large room. There were a lot of tables for people to sit at. Deidre and I sat at a free table near the back. After a short while some other people joined us. And that’s where it got interesting.

New ‘Reply’ feature in Gmail

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It used to be that if you wanted to reply to an email in Gmail, you would click on the ‘Show Details’ link, which then make visible a number of options including Reply, Forward, Reply To All, as well as the details of the sender, etc etc.

I went to my Gmail today to reply to a message. I clicked on ‘Show Details’ as normal, but the options I was expecting weren’t there. It was all the details of the sender, but everything else was missing.

I was confused for a moment, and then I saw a new Reply button:

After the Democrat victory, what next?

Add comment November 10th, 2006

I’ve been encouraged by a friend to delve into ‘political analysis’, and to start it all off he’s proposed some questions for me to ‘analyse’. This may become a regular feature.

Ok so now the Democrats have turned the balance of power in their favour , really there are 2 questions:

1. What will this mean to a) the American people and b) to the Iraqis

2. What implications will this have on the rest of the world for all the governments that have bought into the “fight against global terrorism” with Bush. (ie continued support ,financial, moral, free trade etc etc)