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Monthly Archive March, 2011

Answers for the Forsaken World Searches – I

Let me make my Sunday post actually useful to someone and try to answer some of the questions that people who reach this place after searching for Forsaken World information seem to be having. It’s not like you couldn’t get much better answers quite easily in plenty of other places, but since you’re somehow ending […]

Formula One, "Piracy", Browsers and Personal Updates

The 2011 Formula One season has finally started, with the first official practice sessions taking place earlier today, but this year this unfortunately means yet another reason for me to be unhappy. That’s because a certain TV station from here, the one that’s buying just about any sports event that anybody might be interested in […]

A MESSENGER for the Messenger of the Gods

Saw this line in a comment someone posted when it was first announced that MESSENGER has been successfully inserted into orbit around Mercury and couldn’t help but use it as the title of this post. Indeed it seems like an achievement worthy of such a title, mainly because of the way in which it was […]

The United Nations’ Security Council’s Resolution on Libya: Only too Late or Also too Little?

After long and, at best, utterly pointless discussions, the United Nations’ Security Council finally voted to approve establishing a no-fly zone in Libya and also to take “all necessary measures short of an occupation force” to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas from Gaddafi’s attacks. France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, […]

Another Stalker? Plus the Required Forsaken World Update

This would be more of the same, a Sunday post thrown in just to have two written this week, but it would appear that I have something to say today, due to a strange visitor I had here last night. Not that I wouldn’t have plenty of things to say otherwise as well, but not […]