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I stumbled upon a discussion about a book, which had a reference to a verse in Russian. Few of the readers of that site are speakers of the Russian language, so some wondered what the meaning of the verse was. I realized that answering their question… more »

Language is the #1 tool of the social engineer; I believe that in a company, anyone who is dealing with customers should have some basic social engineering skills: This protects the company against being exploited by other social engineers, who are… more »

Every now and then, a conversation with a friend transforms into a debate about the existence of absolute truth. I think absolute truth exists, but not many ideas or statements can be labeled as 'absolute truth'. To be more specific, I think that… more »

I am not a "radio person", but in the not-so-distant past I made a discovery which I am sharing with you - Just a minute, with Nicholas Parsons. The players are given a subject, they must talk about it for one minute, without repeating themselves,… more »