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    Fade out

    A long week getting software into a stubborn target system. 3rd time lucky.  It was infrastructre all the time but I had to convince the infrastructure crew to look again, which was 90% of the effort.I'm a bit strung out; haven't meditated for ages

    Comments (0) . Friday, 30 April 2004

    Fractal beauty in the countryside

    I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday when I went for a walk in the beautiful sunshine after work. I was thinking about how there seems to be a lot of special days in the Buddhist calendar, you know, auspicious days and not. If everything is empty the

    Comments (0) . Friday, 23 April 2004

    Funny Pecuiliar

    I went to Lama Jampa's Easter teachings in Flumseberg, Switzerland. I really liked Switzerland and the Swiss, I think their taciturn reputation is undeserved. I liked the way everything was so clean, even the smokers would stub their cigarettes out

    Comments (0) . Saturday, 17 April 2004

    Escape to Warrington

    Had a couple of jobs in the pipeline. One with a very interesting IT based company in Warrington, the other with a bank in central Manchester. The bank were going to pay more but we seemed to have some kind of mismatch on the 2nd interview; I am glad

    Comments (0) . Friday, 2 April 2004