'Pale Blue Dot', a photograph taken from about 6 billion kilometers away by the Voyage 1 space probe, showing Earth as a tiny dot within deep space (Voyager 1/NASA)
'Pale Blue Dot', a photograph taken from about 6 billion kilometers away by the Voyage 1 space probe, showing Earth as a tiny dot within deep space (Voyager 1/NASA)

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I’m writing Side View this week with a new thingo in the backend of the Crikey site, which one of our excellent production editors, the estimable Jack (hi Jack!), patiently took me through yesterday. I suspect Jack regards me now as a grumpy old man who needs being nursed through even the most basic technological changes, and I fear he is right, even though it seems like yesterday that I was rolling my eyes like a poker machine as a teenager at my mother for not knowing how to program the VCR.