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    Precious time, precious moments

    For those of you who don't know, my father killed himself when I was 8 years old. All I have left of him are his silver cufflinks and the vague echoes of his genes. Nothing else.I was giving Jon a hug today before leaving for work and it hit me that

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 22 December 2004

    Redone Novel

    I've redone my novel and change things a little, have a look if your interested Should have gone to bed early and done all kinds of useful things but who the hell can be bothered with that kind of stuff? Off to bed now, 11:30 pm. Got a big day tomor

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 15 December 2004

    NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta and classpath scanning

    This is a weird one. If you have a free-format project and add to the class path using the class path wizard beware that you add either directories or .jar files. I was picking up all of the files in the JBOSS tomcat directory and also, inadvertently

    Comments (0) . Friday, 10 December 2004

    Response to article "IBM move the database goal posts"

    In response to this:Hi Philip,I've just been working with Oracle's XML DB for 10g. It does functionally exactly what you say IBM are thinking about. You appear to be ill-informed and have bought the IBM FUD. You should be more careful about what you

    Comments (0) . Friday, 10 December 2004

    Java Certification

    I've been using Java for about 5 years, but not heavily. I know the language reasonably well and have decided that I will get certified in the next few weeks. I took a test (for 1.2) from a training book I bought and got around 60% without a lot of s

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 7 December 2004