confused of calcutta

Found these in a completely different context (a discussion group about Prediction Markets); thought that they were wonderful descriptions of the “provisionality” of blogs. See what you think.
Richard Feynman:
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty [...]

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I’ve been watching a lot of cricket these past few weeks, while listening to music and reading at the same time. See? I’m learning multitasking. It must be the time I’m spending with my wife and Generation M children.
While watchening the cricket (I have no word to describe the half-listen half-watch that every child of [...]

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Of late I appear to be getting over a couple of thousand spam comments a day, all ably blocked off by Akismet.
In the past, I used to go through the blocked items, just in case some legitimate comments had been suppressed. And I would find one or two a week.
Since early December, I haven’t had [...]

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I used to smoke. And it didn’t matter how hard I tried to rationalise or defend my smoking, it all boiled down to one question.
Would I be happy to see my children smoke?

The answer never changed, it was always No. I should have learnt more quickly from that.
Sometimes we need simple questions to break through [...]

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