View from the street outside my apartment

Reflections on Life So Far

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August 27th 2006
The school finally handed out our loan laptops. After sitting through a full week of power point presentations I was wondering if maybe the Scottish had a little “thing” with PowerPoint. As it turns out, Profs and teachers here do like to put everything onto those slides and for my courses they will have all of them downloaded onto First Class. They are pushing ICT (information and communic ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more