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Why are there always exceptions? Because they help us avoid thinking about the only thing that doesn't have them.

When you have small formulas, they have a lot of results...

Why am I doing this?

I'm doing this because:

1. It's been deemed that blogging is healthy:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type
2. I want to help others. That's why whatever useful I put here (if anything) at least has a chance to reach other people. That's why I'm blogging instead of writing a diary.

Internet and our minds

This guy seems to be quite right, except that, in my case, I can still focus on something lengthy when I REALLY want to. But, as he points out, one needs a lot of motivation to actually stick with a long piece of work till the end.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google