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Like most people, there's a lot of technology I take for granted. But every so often I stop and think about how things were in the past, whether since I've been around, or in previous eras. When it comes to technology like the internet and mobile phones, as far as youngsters are concerned they have always been here. So how can we get kids to appreciate the effects of technology on society, a requirement in many general IT courses, when as far as they're concerned there is nothing special about the existence of the technology? Something happened to me yesterday which made me think about all this.
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England's The Daily Telegraph recently reported on a study which found that 10% of the words we Brits
use in conversation are so-called “filler” words. In other words, all the “ums”
and “ahs” that do not add anything to the information being imparted.
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Where have I been? As you may have noticed, this website has been uncharacteristically dormant
since a week last Friday, until today. Unfortunately, a malignant Fate decreed that I
succumbed to some horrible cold virus that is doing the rounds. So here is a
brief synopsis of what I did, and failed to do, and what's coming up.
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