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Thursday’s child has far to go

I am convinced that the people behind JRE’s and Java, those Sun people set out to make things as difficult as possible. Seriously, I have spent the last 2 hours installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, standing on my head whilst doing it. Netbeans 5.5 comes bundled with JDK 1.6 but we are supposed to use 1.5. So

Le Oral Francais.

See how good I am with languages. I was once told I spoke it like a native, just not of that country. Ahem. I think I was being mocked. The kid has her french oral today. She’s as calm about the whole thing. Where’s the stress? The cramming? The panic? Not with her. Its more

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Mammy2’s dad is on the road to recovery. The operation was yesterday and they managed to remove all of the tumour. They have sent it off for testing and will then know how to proceed with treatment. He’s in great form according to the mother in law, asking after everyone, telling them not to

Perfect Weekend

Its hard to describe the last 2 days, except that I’ve relaxed a lot. Not a sign of any chest pains and lots of sitting around, reading the paper and hanging with the clan. Friday night was great fun, got the hair finally sorted by our fabulous hairdresser, heading for a meal with Mammy2. She

Hanging in there

According to the gospel of Wikipedia Karma is defined as follows:
Karma (Sanskrit kárma, kárman- “act, action, performance”[1]; Pali kamma) is the concept of “action” or “deed” in Dharmic religions understood as denoting the entire cycle of cause and effect described in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist philosophies.
I have always believed in the idea of it

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