Where's Niccolo?

Orange and black stripes, in contrast to Wally's red & black.

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Fairly hurried lunchtime blip as time was short, striving to meet a deadline. Work's needing long hours at the moment; plus I'd the meeting tonight presenting, among other things, the final recommendations of the committee-reorg committee. They weren't "welcomed with open arms" exactly.

"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. ...

This ... arises partly ... from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly beleive in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others only defend him half-heartedly, so that between them he runs great danger."

Niccolo Machiavelli