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I Don’t Wanna Be a Headless Chook

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  I was driving along the Mitchell Freeway in Perth on the weekend, wind blowing in my hair  (having the car window down in mum’s Corolla is a cheap alternative to a convertible). According to my speedometer I was doing the speed limit of 100 km per hour (that would be 62.1371192 miles per hour for my overseas friends). For a moment I thought I was on a German Autobahn or the Top Gear test track.  Vehicles were speeding past me …

When Was The Last Time You Heard Something For The First Time? #1

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In my last blog post  I recalled the time I heard the word blog for the first time.  The word and the concept were totally alien to me until that moment. Some years back I was watching Sir Bob Geldof  being interviewed on TV, (that right there is one articulate and interesting dude) and he used the word nanosecond. Until that moment I don’t think I had ever heard the word nanosecond before. What did he say??? Nanna second? Nano seeker?  Nah, …