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Arthritis, gmail and dictators

February 21st 2010 08:42
In my Blogger blog, I talk about how thankful I am that what appeared to be impending arthritis in my two forefingers seems to have eased off almost entirely. So no need for natural arthritis treatments at this point.

Which are? Well, some people swear by anti-oxidants, but since we get those in a great many foods we eat, I'm not sure that that's changing anything.

There are alternative therapies by the score, of course (in this day and age, what else would you expect?) but they're a pretty mixed bag.

Anyway, enough of those....

In recent news, I see that Iran has shut down gmail in that country - supposedly they're providing their own service, although I doubt that that will convince the Iranians. We don't know how well off we are here in New Zealand - or in many other countries that have freedom. We take the Internet - and gmail - for granted, but of course these things aren't ours as of right, and they're not necessarily permanent.

When I was complaining about xtra.co.nz the other day, and their seeming junking of gmail emails, at least I wasn't having to face an entire shut down of my email system. Nor have I seen Google kicked out, as the Chinese pretty much have.

The Internet may have made the world smaller, but the little dictators still wield enormous power.

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