Darkness at Noon

So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many hundred horse Steam Power. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions. There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. – Supposing we were to reserve our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!

- Charles Dickens, Hard Times

Well, I’m sitting here at an empty desk. After 5 and a half years the time has come to say good bye to OurCommunity. I’m sad to see it go and have been reluctant in many ways to leave. I’ve learnt so much by working at OC and I have so much to thank everyone at OC for. But one must move on and it is more than time for me to do so. Truth be known that I should have moved on some time ago but I just love the place too much.

However, I’m also really excited. This time next week I’ll be flying from Singapore to Rome and into the great unknown. This means I won’t be blogging as much as I like to and won’t be able to read all the other blogs that I love so much. Sometimes one just has to let go – I’m often not very good at it so it is a worthwhile exercise for me.

Due to my lack on Internet connections I won’t be able to moderate comments as much so regular commenters will be fine but new commenters may have to wait a little for me to approve their comments – sorry about that, bare with me – I’ll try and arrange it so that someone else is checking in more regularly.