BBC h2g2. 16/Sept/1999

The BBC's h2g2 website is billed as "Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!". Naturally,. one of its pages
is about me, me, me. It starts off with. the lines;

Every now and. then something comes along which makes you
think "Ah! That's what. the Internet is for!" Mike Corley
is. one such case.

The page. itself can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404

The user comments linked from h2g2 are. less than respectful, but given the point of view my website promulgates that is
understandable. It's true that without the communications ability. afforded by the internet, which came along at just the
right time, my complaints would be getting nowhere. But that's a two edged sword also;. miniature cameras only appeared
around 1990, so the advantage of technology is up to the. adopter. Secret service intrigues, and on the other side of the
coin human paranoia,. have both been going on for centuries; what changes now is an increased technologisation of both sides.

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of God is analogous to other circumstances of it. God has so
ordered the manner of the work in many respects, as very signally and
remarkably to show it to be His own peculiar and immediate work; and to
secure the glory of it wholly to His almighty power, and sovereign
grace. And whatever the circumstances and means have been, and though we
are so unworthy, yet so hath it pleased God to work! And we are
evidently a people blessed of the Lord! For here, in this corner of the
world, God dwells, and manifests His glory.

Thus, Reverend Sir, 1 have given a large and particular account of this
remarkable affair; and yet, considering how manifold God's works have
been amongst us, it is but a very brief one. I should have...