I always remember when it first came out the thing that opened my eyes was the stats for market penetration to half a million users measured in years initially then down to but a few short months or weeks for things like iPod and Facebook

Thanks for resurrecting this.

I absolutely agree with your comment about Camden Council. This is supposed to be a free country where everyone should be allowed their say.

François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, once said: “I disagree strongly with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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Which is BETTER for Britain surely .

As a younger person I used to be very much a Republican as a monarchy struck me as old fashioned and unfair. In recent years though I have become very sympathetic to a constitutional monarchy for exactly the reasons mentioned above. That said the republican street party should still have been allowed, albeit I think they are wrong.

After the panic subsided I retrieved the email from the “bin” copied the pictures to my desktop, copied them in one after the other in the blog and nearly half an hour later, all is well

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Mirna is an educational psychologist from Stellenbosch. She taught at several schools, amongst others Stellenbosch High School, Bloemhof Girls’ High and Jan Kriel School for learners with barriers to learning. She is a mother, loves art, the ocean and children.

10 Reasons
I received many responses to the previous letter called Growing towards Love, where I shared thoughts on positively growing a relationship over time. Today I would like to make a controversial statement: Most couples divorce too soon. In fact I believe that there should be a mandatory two year separation period after the divorce application and before a marriage is dissolved.

Please note that the following are generalized statements based on my professional experience with children affected by divorce.
Every partner in a relationship must have boundaries in order to keep one’s self respect and protect what is dear to one. And unfortunately authenticity and self-preservation sometimes force one to walk away from a relationship. For example, no partner should tolerate continuous violent or disrespectful behaviour to oneself or one’s loved ones.

However, before you say yes to a divorce consider the following:

Both partners are usually financially worse off after divorce. Because of the financial strain, caretakers are sometimes forced into choosing incompatible partners for support. Life conditions of partners, as well as possible children from the marriage, are more often worse, after a divorce.

Although fighting between parents is usually present before the divorce – it usually continues during and after the divorce. In some cases the burden on the children even worsens because children are then used as pawns and collateral in the war of “what is mine” and “what I deserve”. Last week one 11-year-old boy described it as “my parents are throwing stones at each other but I am the one who gets hit in the middle all the time”.

Statistics show that more second marriages fail than first marriages. You can of course decide rather to be in a live-in relationship second time around, but you will have to agree there is even less security in such a relationship.
The logistics of organizing children for visits and shared responsibility is a nightmare at best. It is a mine field of promises not kept, misunderstandings, lost items and possible resentment from ex and children.

A divorce inevitably leaves scars on partners and children’s self-esteem. It will possibly influence them all their lives. And more often in a negative way.

Nobody is left untouched by divorce. Parents, grandparents, children, acquaintances, friends and even pets are all somehow touched by the strong emotions that are caused by a divorced. And again most often it would be negative.
With divorce becoming more and more common, people often shy away from the hard work and commitment that can sometimes be required to fix a marriage, and sometimes don’t even consider it as an option. And therefore they capitulate at a time when their emotional reserves are low.

I am not saying one should never consider a divorce all I am pleading for is to first work hard at trying to fix the relationship and to consider a lengthy separation such as two years – because sometimes what you lose during a divorce cannot ever be found again.
A divorce means a shift to the entire status quo of life with far-reaching consequences and you are bound to lose more than you initially bargained for.

Respectfully from my heart to yours.

O I L

Very poignant on this day when the pompous arsehole Shameron and Co try to tell us they are bombing the shit out of Libya to protect innocent civilians. There isn’t a word in the English vocabulary to descibe the low esteme I hold the British Politician in. Rank Hypocrisy!

But joking aside, it will be interesting to see if the claim is for the whole phone or laptop, or whether they have just managed to reduce that part of the phone power by a hundred times.

Before I went over to Ubuntu, my Windows XP professional, on a 4GB RAM machine, top of the range PowerC computer took about 4.7 minutes to load, but I did have a lot of stuff in memory.

So perhaps not all that misleading?

This video is a little miss leading an that is never very good. The closer to the truth the better.

Thats my counter rant so to speak.

Sorry!

*fetches coat*

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That said, I agree with you that a lot of people who have problems with their banks are at least partly to blame; I certainly was – but at least am self aware enough to admit it.