While the mistake was fixed in something like 72 hours, the chaos, inconvenience, and financial loss to the sites and their registrar and hosting companies was significant.

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We're stuck with one point of view as the drama unfolds around us, and as in life, the camera is often pointing the wrong way when something dramatic happens, then gets swept along in the chaos and confusion of the moment.

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The heady hopes invested in the so-called "Arab Spring" have now been replaced by a guarded optimism - a hope that out of the uncertainty in Egypt, the chaos in Syria and the wider tensions rippling out through the Middle East, something better will come.

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