Yeez..... that long

...................... At least Pop's still ahead of me.
Looking back the most striking thing I find, that back then the monthly OPEC statement was about the biggest news event we could find.
And now after 7 years (and several resource wars, financial crisises, terrorist attacks, resource price spikes, collapsing governements, a half molten arctic etc... ), some people are complaining about a lack of stuff to discuss, if there is no impending global crisis for a week or so.
Things have certainly changed.