Thotz from Dr Mike

Random Thoughts from the Desk of Mike

Category: Politics
Posted by: mike40033
I wrote the following letter to the Prime Minister (and five other politicians), about a homeless man I met in Subiaco. I'll post the letters today, and if and when these people respond, I'll blog about their responses too. Stay tuned!

Now, the letter....

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
I'm reading the famout book The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. He talks about the great "flatteners" that have changed the world over the past two decades.

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Category: Robots
Posted by: mike40033
When I was a kid, we played with sticks, balls and rubbish bin lids. Then came Pong, the Atari and the Commodore 64, and the world has never been the same.

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Category: Education
Posted by: mike40033
The other day, as a science experiment, my son and I built a hovercraft. Obviously not a real one you can sit in, but a simple device that shows the principle of a hovercraft at work.

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Category: Faith
Posted by: mike40033
I was reading this article, and especially, the comments that followed. The author was puzzled - why were atheists taking out advertisements to get their "message" across?

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Category: General
Posted by: mike40033
A friend from the United States asked me about Uluru recently. Uluru used to be called Ayers Rock, until its more correct name gained common usage.

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Category: Nature
Posted by: mike40033
Yahoo is doing something strange with my site on the world's largest animals.

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Category: Language
Posted by: mike40033
The latest scam email in my spam folder tells me that I'm lucky enough to share the same surname as some unfortunate individual who died, and whose next-of-kin died on the same day. Nothing new there, but then the scammer informs me

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Category: General
Posted by: mike40033
I lived in Malaysia for about 10 years, and I love the country. That's why the government's response to the Swine flu left a bitter taste in my soul.

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Category: General
Posted by: mike40033
If one takes a look at Google's map of the incidence of Swine Flu, one thing that's very clear is that there are almost no reported cases in Africa or Asia.

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