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August 2007

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	The Science and Development Network - http://www.scidev.net - aims to provide reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world. Plenty of material here for talks and discussion.
	An excellent guide to downloading and playing music of any and all sorts from the web - legally - can be found at the BBC site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/howto/download/downloadp01.shtml
	Classics/History groups: The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama can be found at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ It is an interdisciplinary research project on the international history of ancient drama in performance, based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford.
	http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ is run for fun by Michael Chu, a computer engineer living in Silicon Valley California.
	Get fit - see http://www.go4awalk.com/walks/ for some UK maps and guides. Its often easier (and cheaper) to walk around London avoiding tubetravel - see http://www.walkit.com (Thanks Rawdon Walker, U3A Northampton).
	Absolute beginners: Have fun learning how to handle a mouse http://www.seniornet.org/howto/mouseexercises/mousepractice.html
	Word documents contain a lot of data and CONTENT of earlier versions. This could be very embarrassing or damaging to anyone in the event of reuse of 'that good letter I wrote last week to A N Other' or angry stuff written in a document during draft stages and later removed. The Microsoft document explains all this and offers methods for removal. This is at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010776461033.aspx (Thank you Mike Bean, U3A Aylesbury Vale, UK).