Synchronicity - the appearance of events being related, due to proximity in time, or relationship of occurance, that may or may not be coincidence, could or could not be causal, subject to speculation.

example from Chaos Theory - buddhist proverb that the monsoon begins with the fluttering of the wings of the moth or butterfly. How much power do butterflies have anyway. Probably a lot more than we give them credit for, in the same way this week's heat storm likely unrelated to our burning of our fossil fuels, ozone layer depletion, etc, if you believe the govt. at this time.

when I started the random communication part of the GPPAP or my test in it anyway, I sent out posts randomly, sometimes using key phrases, nicknames, etc. and wait to see if someone gets back to me. Sort of like being on the island, waiting for notes in a bottle, whether from strangers I hoped to get my message out to, friends, even estranged ones.

So, i learned to check for spam. I looked for a person who spelled her name with 2 ls and good thing I did, or I'd have deleted her, as I didn't know her married name, hadn't heard from her in 8 years or so, unless that other 2 ls person the same one at the same email address some years before when I opened in 1998, and it got me a decent breakfast with old friends, some of who are numbered in the jdc104 website on various pages.

well, I also learned to check site statistics or hits on site, the site referral, frequency of hits, time of day, day of week, if it ignored or not. A particular page in last year, one I am likely in hot water for, comes up it seems each Wednesday of late, sometimes fridays, and if you're looking now at blog, I really didn't find the W name until late June while reading my new favorite column, what the testers thought. I've tried not to slander you, nor contact you actually since prior to putting up the web site, so if by chance its you, send a note.

Otherwise, it just seems odd, that page, and only that page, frequency repeats. What does this mean, as nearly as crazy as my messages in 1994 trying to do by mail intervention when not supposed to send you anything. I got the hint, gave up. sorry if your name in code, but had already written it. Otherwise, your column was great, hope you do well. In the meantime, I am taking my own advice. Got counseling, doing things, still get into some troubles but not as it was, and happy. Hope you are too. Sorry to find your name in my RE work of late, but accident I noted in case might happen, but took over a decade to even run across that, so hope that satisfies you I am trying to stay out of your way. Best to you. jim