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As a result of this, things have been pretty chaotic around here and I don't always know whether I'm coming or going -- so please excuse the fragmented nature and content of today's column.

There was an interesting article on the New Scientist website that I linked to yesterday -- I wonder how many of you noticed an important observation contained therein?

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The sentence that caught my eye was " The ice caps may be retreating due to a long-term warming of the planet, researchers suggest".

Hmmm... so Mars is also undergoing global warming - yet there aren't millions of cars, fossil-fuel burning power stations, farting cows, or any of the other things we're blaming for our global warming here on earth.

Could it be that one of the key contributors to our global warming woes is an increase in the heat output of the sun? Could this increased output be affecting, not just the earth, but also the other planets in our solar system?

Something to think about perhaps?

Here's another worrying announcement. It would appear that the RIAA and MPAA want to have a goodly amount of control over how the upcoming Internet2 network is used.

Of course they (like anyone else) have every right to sit on the Internet 2 consortium but I do hope that they're not able to lobby for excessive control over the decision-making process. I think we need to ensure that content creators do not have undue control of the delivery medium or all sorts of problems will occur.

Finally, if you were thinking of getting into blogging then check out this story running on the Wired.com site today.

It would appear that a good blogger should be pulling down as much as US$10K per month for their efforts.

Of course to get that sort of money you have to be publishing something rather special to a significant-sized audience -- although Aardvark falls into the quoted "high four- to five-figure daily visitor figures" so maybe I will make my fortune here (one day :-).

But for now it's back to the grind and dealing with the increasingly regular stream of TV crews that seem to find what I'm doing to be at least modestly interesting.

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