And therefore it was not until at the end of my schooldays, 16, 17, that I really became aware of music as a professional existence and I realised that I somehow belonged inside this absolutely strange world.

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The chance to explore this strange new two dimensional world is the main event.

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Understandably, this strange and thrilling online world can be unsettling to the old hands of the advertising industry, whether they are marketing bosses for advertisers or intermediaries at the agencies.

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This world of bits is a strange one, in which you can take something and still leave it for its rightful owner.

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This is a strange but predictable consequence of our broadly statistical view of the world.

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And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.

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