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When I was 46 I started writing essays on life, or the state of the human condition as I once called it. Because I was halfway between old enough to vote (21) and planned retirement (72) it was known as the "Halfway Point" series of essays.

Later when I mentioned the essays in one context or another on USENET, I got requests for copies and eventually for future essays. Thus the mailing list was born, and it moved to the Internet when that became widely available. At that time I moved to writing on a schedule, the 1st, 11th, and 21st of the month.

Now the trend is to "blogs," and read on demand. I am therefore making this available as a blog, and we shall see if people read it here, or by mail, or not at all.

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The 'Fly on the wall' is watching - and reporting (13:12)

DARPA's latest mind control experiment isn't some creepy "Terminator" creation, it's a remote controlled live bug being flown by remote control. Perhaps the old expression "A fly on the wall," meaning an unseen observer, will become literally true in the near future. No need to try to guess passwords, when you can "fly" in and observe them being types in real time.

This gives me the feeling that George Orwell was right, Big Brother is, to the best of his ability, watching.