Category Archives: Internet

12/31/1969

July 6, 2011 – 7:14 pm

I returned home from my July 4th vacation and turned on my iBook G4. It took a long time to boot up and announced that the date was in need of change. I clicked on ‘date and time’ to discover my computer had time-traveled back to the last day of 1969 in my absence. After [...]

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The All-Seeing Eye

June 30, 2011 – 7:31 pm

Young Catholic school children were taught by the nuns and priests and their parents that God was all-seeing. His Divine Eyes was more penetrating that Superman’s X-Ray vision. Our every thought and deed were an open book to The Almighty, but as the population of the world increased by billions, I as a non-believer detected [...]

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Opps

April 20, 2011 – 7:24 pm

The server for www.mangozeen.com suffered a nervous breakdown this week. My access and that of people visiting the site was denied by the almighty powers of the internet. My techie had no explanation and my emails to the server went unanswered. Traffic was non-existent, as if all my entries had been vaporized by a web [...]

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Incommunicado

January 24, 2011 – 8:12 pm

Back at the end of the last century there was a short time when the world was devoid of cell phones and computers. Communications between distant countries was a chore. While in Bangkok I would hire a tuk-tuk for the short trip from the Malaysia Hotel to the Bangko GPO on Charoen Krung Road. The [...]

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Site Weirdness

December 23, 2010 – 10:28 pm

sorry but I’m having trouble with posts, but I should get it back together after the holidays. no one is perfect, except for our mothers

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