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    Scallywag thieves

    Trying very hard to be a Buddhist but ...Jon was playing in the park with some of his mates. Sitting chatting and an older boy ran up and "borrowed" his bike. All £350 worth. It was paid for by Jon from accumulated years of birthday m

    Comments (1) . Monday, 30 April 2007

    Old poem that no longer fits in Archive Fragments

    It’s dark now (o where are you sweet knife) (I hear) singing in the street (with your bitter edge) (Out) in the shadows of the night (little blood gush orange juicy) Pastel neon dream away (cut me now, cut out the endless pain) No sleep

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 25 April 2007

    Suicide Watch

    My mind has been in a strange state for quite a while. I'd be lying if I said I was suicidal, but the thought of suicide keeps cropping up. It's more of a call to me to understand death properly and maybe come to terms with what happened with

    Comments (5) . Wednesday, 25 April 2007

    Easter

    Got a lot done over Easter but pretty busy.Rosie was away at a Canoe Camping Club meet near Retford (Notts or thereabouts). We only have one car now so I drove over, camped for the night, drove back and then picked her up on Easter Monday. I managed

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 11 April 2007

    Finding bugs in Java code, Hibernate and so on

    Find BugsHighly recommend findbugs , we've been using it at work for a week or so and it finds lots of bad practices and naive code. Like me, in the last post here, it doesn't like returning null all the time either. It recommends empty strin

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 3 April 2007