03 June 06 - 12:37Rwanda

Some of you may know me as an occasional participant at London Mensa meetings. Some of you may know of my activities in East Africa, working on the problems of water supply, sanitation and agriculture. Would anyone be interested in knowing more? I will gladly post some stuff here if anyone is interested.

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02 June 06 - 12:40Index.Wittig

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02 June 06 - 07:18Mensa.Eu Domain

If you want to find out who owns a domain you look up a relevant whois. For .eu domains this is www.whois.eu For this domain you can see my details.
If you enter mensa it gets kind of interesting.

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01 June 06 - 10:15Number of Mensa Members Worldwide

These figures were accurate in 1996 so will have changed a bit- if anyone could send me newer figures, as well as newer countries I'll gladly update this and keep it up to date.

 WORLDWIDE NUMBER OF MEMBERS

  Country                 Members

  USA                       50483  New Zealand                 327

  UK+Ireland                35608  Denmark                     295

  Canada                     2546  Austria                     287

  Malaysia                   2181  Channel Islands             257

  Germany                    1204  Spain                       251

  Finland                    1107  Singapore                   245

  Yugoslavia                 1100  India                       200

  Australia                   961  Sweden                      146

  Netherlands                 922  Belgium                     117

  Czechoslovakia              715  Japan                       101

  France                      708  Switzerland                 101

  Poland                      700  Hong Kong                   100

  Italy                       400  OTHER                       320

  South Africa                395

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  Total Worldwide Membership                                101813

I found these here which despite it's age is well worth reading. It's a pretty good ad for Mensa.

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01 June 06 - 09:21Intelligent Searching

I am into web searching, using Google and to a lesser extent the desktop search application copernic. If something is on the web I can usually find it. (So long as search engiens have it indexed of course). This morning I came across http://swicki.eurekster.com/ which appears to offer a way for targetted search results to be refined by humans.

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30 May 06 - 10:23Mensa Trademark

In the UK, the word Mensa is of course trademarked by British Mensa Ltd. It is also trademarked by Tripart Farm Chemicals Limited for Chemical products, preparations and growing media for agricultural, horticultural and silvicultural purposes; fertilizers, manures, composts and plant growth enhancers; foliar feeds; wetting agents for use with agrochemicals; soil conditioners and also by Howe UK Limited for tables;tables sold as sets or as nests, all for office or commercial use..

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30 May 06 - 08:04A New Beginning...da da der da da

No this isn't Star Wars! I'm David Bolton, admin of the site and British Mensa member for nearly 27 years. During this time I have been treasurer of Irish Mensa (an organisation deemed Oxymoronic by the Late Victor Serebriakoff) and Loc. Sec. of the Fylde and Wyre Mensa for several years. I'm now webmaster of PartySig - A Special Interest Group for party goers within British Mensa.

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