• Archive for June, 2003

    Week in review

    by  • 27 June, 2003 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    If there is one thing to mention about this week it’s that it was soooooo hot, my brain was melting. The internet weather stations have all reported temperatures in excess of 30 degrees celsius. In this office that I am about to leave any minute now it felt more like 40 degrees… On wednesday...

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    Warning to visitors

    by  • 24 June, 2003 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    As you are all preparing to invade this island where I have found shelter (Frans and Nadine just arrived in Chania by the way), I thought it time to give some friendly advise as to the code of conduct while driving on our scenic roads. So here are a few rules, which — if...

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    Unbelievable! Truly amazing!

    by  • 23 June, 2003 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

    You wouldn’t believe what happened to me today. I had been wondering about it for some time now, but as the days and the weeks passed I had given up on it. I had come to assume that it just would never happen, extraordinary as that may seem. It must have been, for sure,...

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    We interrupt our regular program…

    by  • 19 June, 2003 • Uncategorized • 2 Comments

    Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has identified among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one’s cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of reinforcement techniques such as repetition to spread...

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