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    Intensely depressed

    Not sure why this is to be honest.Driving home today I was suddenly overcome with an intense feeling of despair, not even despair, just an almost overwhelming desire to do something else.I can't afford to:Buy the books I want (was just coming back fr

    Comments (1) . Thursday, 24 November 2005

    Removing some of the pain from Oracle Forms

    More than 1 code editing window(Thanks to Nadia for this one)Yes, it is possible, when you want another window select the pl/sql object you are interested in editing and press ctrl-shift before you double-click. The new window appears on top of the o

    Comments (0) . Friday, 18 November 2005

    FInally, a use for old loyalty cards! My laptop is a laptop again.

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    Comments (0) . Thursday, 10 November 2005

    Circles of the head

    Carrying on from last blog, perhaps more coherently

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 8 November 2005

    Sunday's ramblings

    Some notes that may turn into the beginning of my next novel, or may stay what they are.

    Comments (1) . Sunday, 6 November 2005

    Liberals

    I think that right-thinking people should reclaim the word "liberal". To me it means allowing people to get on with their lives without too much interference, or at least that's what it meant originally. I do think that ensurin

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 2 November 2005

    Microsoft's "Vision"

    In response to this:I don't quite get what you mean by the .Net "vision". As a techie using J2EE at the time all I could see was that they needed something to meet that challenge. 95% of the ideas (e.g. common runtime, remoting etc. etc.) w

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 2 November 2005