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currently residing in Llangawsai,Ceredigion

I design and build websites
Write music (classical)
Research genealogy
Tutor Mathematics
Enjoy hill walking & camping

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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We dont just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James D. Nicoll

If you torture data sufficiently, they will confess to almost anything. (Fred Menger)

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

"Microsoft Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."-Mark Twain

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."
-- Charles Bradlaugh

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. St. Augustine

If voting really changed anything, it would have been made illegal a long time ago.
--Unknown

"If I had died, I would not have wanted the constitution to be shredded on my behalf " Rachel North (who was injured in the 7 July attacks)

The tyranny of a principal in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
--Montesquieu, 1748

ONLY IDEAS EXIST

"Quisque suos patimer manes" (Each man is liable for his own peculiar destiny) Virgil. ...

"They had no good cigars there, my lord; and I left the place in disgust"
Alfred Lord Tennyson speaking of Venice

In the kingdom of the blind, the man who lives by the sea likes bananas

If a man speaks in the woods, and there are no women around to hear him - is he still wrong?

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
--William Pitt

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
--Henry Ward Beecher

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