My mind has been on over-drive, for several possible reasons (no particular order):

• meeting interesting people
• delirium of sickness
  
• pseudoephedrine + paracetamol + codeine (a.k.a. the double-edged sword that is Coldral)
  
• reading interesting stuff

So, things I have been thinking about and trying to find more information on:

• paradoxes (e.g. Achilles and the turtle)
• the origin of the wheel (i.e. Mesopotamia - ah, good ol' 3rd form history)
• www.celsias.com, sustainability and climate change
• how to train people
• Web 2.0 and semantic web (e.g. FOAF) and trends
• compartmentalisation of online identities
• various projects on my mind
• Africa (e.g. Rwandan Genocide)
  
• the Cultural Revolution of the Mao Era
• Tibet
• also reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I want to read A Blank Slate (Pinker) and A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) and a whole bunch of other books I spotted at the library
• teenage violence
• role models/leadership in NZ and around the world

I would comment on them, but I'm actually very tired and still sick! Actually, on the topic of pseudoephedrine - it had the craziest effects on me and markedly increased my heart-rate, blood pressure (adrenergic receptors) and I suspect, my cerebral blood flow leading to inability to sleep and hyperactivity in thinking. It was good at the time, but coming down off the pseudoephedrine also led to unwanted side-effects. I stand by my observation that I lack the active allele that converts codeine to morphine. I never benefit from "plus" medications.

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