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Updating the N8

The good news is that I have finally got the N8 updated to Anna, reading the help forums on the main Nokia site it would appear that I have been very lucky in getting the update to work and even luckier that I have a working phone!

The sad thing is that later this year there is yet another update, I think that when this one turns up I shall wait a few weeks after it's release so that there is a chance that the update will install with no dramas.


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L had a date

Well guesses as to who was late into work and left her car in the car park?

Yep

L did

She said to me that it was a great date, and admitted that she had fun, I asked her if the baby shower would be in late April 2012 she told me don't you dare jinx her !

So she said it was great and just how she wanted it to be and as she remembered it to be.

She and P on Saturday are looking now for a place to live for him then her.

So she has said that she is going to start slow packing up to 90 dresses and shoes that's a lot to pack.

And she has to file for divorce and when she has done that she is going to move out and go live with P.

One thing that she has to get her head around is how to tell the children all three of them and how all these changes are going to affect them.

L did say today that one of the reasons for her marriage to fail was the fact that M expected her to basically be the maid around the house and be at his beck and call, not what I would call a partnership.


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L on a date

So last night tells me she is going on a date with P, she looks and sounds very excited about it, I wonder what tomorrow will bring?


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Updating N8

Well for reasons that now I can't remember I saw that there was a firmware update for my phone, well the good news is my phone still works that bad news is on part one of the update has installed part two will not load due to the phone not having enough free memory.

It's proving difficult to see how to free up space when you can't see the files on the phone.


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L Update

So I managed to talk to L again and she has updated me on how things are all going, in more detail than she said the other day.

When she told M that she wanted a divorce the only real thing that he said was I suppose we will have to put the house up for sale, nothing about the marriage of 12 years. He also said that L had made it clear over the last few months that she was not happy, but as L has said if you have a partner who does not talk to you, does not want to be with you or inter mate with you then the end result is going to be the same, eg the relationship will breakdown and finally fall apart.

Meanwhile for L it looks like P and her have connected as if they have not been apart for 20 years....

P is going to be moving to the area as his current relationship finished some time ago and now he is being asked to move out so I suppose it makes sense for him to move near to L

This will be a problem for L as she will want to move in with him and she does not want her kids to be put in the position where they have to choose where to live with their mother or their father.

The other thing is with the way that the housing Market is trying to sell the house at a good price will not be easy as the one thing L and M want to are going to try to do is not to get into financial trouble while they work out how to sort their lives out.

L has said that she can wait a while for things to be sorted out but at the end of the day her marriage is over and has been for the last two years and that if M had done something about back then it would not have failed, I suppose it takes two to keep a relationship going but I suppose that at some stage if one person is doing 95 percent of trying to keep the relationship going there will come a time when you just give up.

Website

So the website is now on the new host and it appears to work okay, in fact all three domains that I own are all working , which is always good.

I have even managed to get the FTP programme working and can upload and download from each of the domains.

The only problem so far is that I can't get the redirect function to work correctly.

Will have to have another look at it when I have more time.


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ISS

I was lucky tonight to see the ISS as it went overhead in the UK as it was cloudy


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Updates on L

So L has told me that last Saturday 20th Aug that she wanted a divorce, so her meeting with P last week must have gone well for her to make the decision that she has and I suppose that she now can't go back to how things were.

The next few months will be very testing for L P and M as their lives are turned upside down. It remains to be seen if the outcome will be as they all want it to be and that most of them are going to be happy.


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Website

So my new website is up and working the only problem that I have is to get all the content back on it.

The database driven Dirk Maggs Producer website is not working, I have backed up everything, that's the good news, the bad news is that I can't find where I saved the backup of the contents file which is some 8 megs in size, the database file is only 512 k.

I will have another good look around to see if I can find the file, if not I will have to make a choice as to what I want to do next.

As a temporary measure I am going to put up my old non database Dirk Maggs site, so that at least the search engines take people to a page with some information on Dirk Maggs.

I don't know at this time as to weather I want to have another data driven site.


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Holiday

It's that time again and I am on holiday.

We left it late this time and so it became a bit of job to find a holiday cottage but in the end after a long search we did find somewhere to go.

We ended up with a a holiday house in Saltash which is somewhere I have never been before.

So far it's been good and today we did a walk of about in total nine miles walking part of the south coast path from Looe it did rain at one stage but at the end of day it turned warm and sunny and I managed to get sunburned.


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Things

Some things can really iss you off


Yet other things don't, strange that?

Why?


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L and her life

L is a friend at work who I have known for a long time, since 2005 to be exact.

In fact she only told me a short while ago, that her marriage of 12 years appears to her to be over due to the way her husband has been treating her at home.

I must admit that I was very surprised that she being treated so badly.

Any way the main point of this blog was to say that you never know what is going to happen in your life.
This certainly appears to be the case with L as she said as much in that she never expect to find her self in the position that she finds herself in.


The good news appears to be that she appears to have meet again someone from her past and that the signs are good that there may be something there.

So only time will tell if that is the case.

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L and her life 2

So I spoke about L and her marriage to M it would appear that on her birthday 2 years ago not only did he completely forget it not even a card or a present or even acknowledge that it was L's birthday but did not even acknowledge that he had done something that upset her.

So you can imagine how L felt this year when he did exactly the same thing again, and has made not attempt to put things right in his marriage.

It would appear that M has changed in some way to such an extent that he no longer wants to be with L

It appears from what L has said that they are more like bother and sister than a couple in that they lead separate lives inside the house.

By that they do not cook for each other and live in different parts of the house and also have separate bedrooms.

So I suppose that after two years of this L has decided that for all intense and purposes that their marriage is over and that the only reason that they are still in the same house is because of financial reasons more than anything else.

So a couple of weeks ago L was at the wedding of her brother, I think she was glad that her brother was finally getting married as he is in his 40's.

So the last thing that L expected to happen was to bump into and only flame of hers from over twenty years ago.

Now P was someone that she was girlfriend to for about eight years, and because he would not commit all those years ago L broke off the relationship even though L has admitted that she loved him very much.

So at the wedding L meets P and the first thing he does is give her a kiss and a cuddle. now L has admitted that the cuddle had the very strange effect of making her heart beat a bit faster and a funny feeling in her stomach.


They managed only to talk for a short time at the wedding but it's obvious to all there that there is a spark between them, to make things more interesting they both are free to have a realonship, the thing is will they?


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Rain

So I am on holiday and what is the one thing you don't want, that's right rain, so what do we get yes rain.....

You can imagine just the words I have been using.


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Memory

What happens to memories ?

Take for instance L and her first love that she was with for eight years what happened to all those memories when she met and married M?

And now that her marriage appears to have failed what happens to all the years of marriage memories?

I don't know

How does someone cope with and deal with all those different memories and emotions ?

I have been lucky and have had what to some is the rare event and that is a long relationship with the same person for some 28 years so I have no way of knowing how one deals with having several major relationships.

I do know what I have gone through and also what L has gone through are not rare, how can it be when there are more than six billion people in the world, in fact what has happened to me and also to L must have been repeated millions of times, so somewhere on this planet there must be someone who could tell me how one copes with all these memories.

I have not asked L as I don't want to upset her more than she is already upset with what is going on in her life at this time.


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Music

I find it amazing that if I don't listen to some music at some point in the day I feel as if something is missing from my day?

Why is this?

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L and now

So L has met her ex from over twenty years ago both her and P are no longer the people they were.

L has had 3 children who are in their early twenties and has been married some 12 years

P has never married or had children

So how much do they have in common?

Is the common ground they share their lives before they went their separate ways?

I don't know the answer to this question it's one that I would like to put to L and P if I ever meet him to ask, as I suspect that the answer from L and P will not be the same answer.


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Marriage?

You have seen on my blog the story of L and P and how they have meet up again after some twenty years.

One. Thing I did ask L the other day is that if she got divorced from M would she marry P?

Her answer was and she admitted that this was something that P had already asked her was yes she would marry again.

I suppose that such an answer should not be a surprise as she was clearly very much taken with P when she was younger and only if he had been able to commit then she would have married him.

The question as to weather the marriage would have lasted is something that can never be known, it's possible that some other reason exists as to why P and L never got married when they were younger.

As L has said thing do happen for a reason what ever that reason might be.

As an outsider to all this I feel as if sometimes I am watching a film or a biography and that what I am seeing is all just a story, the only thing being that this is a story that involves real people and lots of emotions, and some of the things that are going to happen in the next few months are going to cause a lot of hurt and pain for lots of people, and from what I can see it's going to happen and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it happening.

I know that its going on with other people all over the world, but I don't know them do I?

So even though I am on the side lines it's not going to be nice seeing someone you know get hurt and know that there is nothing you can do to stop it from starting.


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Swords

Today I had the chance to hold a 1.5 meter long 6 kilos in weight sword, I must admit that it was a very strange thing to hold and that I would not like to have to have had to use it in real life as it's such a large item that you are supposed to use to kill some one with.

If you can not guess I was visiting a national trust property today that goes back to the Tudor period and so it goes without saying that they would have some old swords that are only 300 or 400 hundred years old that once you have put gloves on you can handle while under supervision.

It's something that I am glad that I did and would do again, as to me it felt that I had a chance to touch a bit of history.


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Wet

So it's august so it should be nice and warm with blue skies, so what do we get here in Cornwall?

Yes rain and dull grey skies, I suppose that it should not be surprise as after all we are in the UK and should expect nothing less.


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Changes

We the renewal has come up for the web host company that I use. Now the current company are based in America and have provide an okay service apart from two things.

The first is that there speed of response to a problem always take 6 or more hours, which is just far to long.

The second
Problem is that the hosting was too slow with my main website taking just far to long to appear and to change pages and before you say it's my website the software that drives that runs some very large website else where and has no problems with pages appearing in 1 or 2 seconds.

So I have a new web host which is also now in the UK and I have already tried out there support and I have to say a response within 10 minutes every time I have used it so far has been great.

The site sped is much much quicker than the old host.

The only problem I now have is transferring all the contents form the old host to the new.

The size of the problem is 7 gigabytes which looks like it's going to take for ever to move around.

So add to the fun I have already perhaps foolishly requested that the DNS name servers point to my new host.

So knowing my luck I could end up with blank screens.

And I did this knowing that I am on leave from tonight for a week!

Yeah I know, don't say it as I already have.....


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Love

The friend that I spoke about in an early blog has got love real bad infect I would say that they look at least 10 years younger than a couple of weeks ago, so it's amazing what falling in love can do.

I think I heard an expression love will find a way and for this person that certainly appears to be the case.


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Love

I think I have seen a friend fall in love and the change in how they look act and talk is amazing, I really did not think that such a thing was possible but having just seen it happen almost overnight has been a real eye opener.


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Blogs

Just been reading or rather scrolling on blogger through the different blogs that are on there.

The thing that I found sad was that so many of the blogs appear to have been started with say 10 or so entries after that there are no more entries, it appears that like podcasts you also get blog fade.

I suppose that a lot of these blogs were started in the rush of let's try this new hip thing and that some time after the reality of how much work it can be causes the user to just drift off doing the blog, I suspect that it is this or some thing like it that causes fade.


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Reading

Not done any book reading for a while now, due to the fact that I have just not felt up to it, what with the weather and work...

The other fact is that there are no books out there at this time that I want to read at this time, or and this is more the case can afford to buy, by that I mean there are several books that I want to read but they are all in hard back at this time so i shall have to wait for them to come out in paperback.


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White space

So with all this White space awaiting for some one to put some letters on it it can get a bit daunting as to what to do next or write next.

As I can write about anything as long as I don't break any laws.


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Audio twitter

Audio twitter good or bad?

I have not got a clue how it would work, perhaps you are only allowed 255 seconds of record time?

Just another silly thought.


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Not much blogging

Have not done much blogging here compared to what I have done in the recent past, mainly as I had nothing that I wanted to say and also as it's been so hot and work has been very intense with the result that the last thing that I wanted to see was yet another computer screen.


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Hot

Been so hot that have not used the iPad


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Tired

Why are so many people around me so tired?

Lots of folks are saying that they feel so tired even if they have not had late nights.

Is it the weather?


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Dirk Maggs semantic wiki

So I have a website and a test website with smw+ on it I have managed to set up some categories and also some properties.

I have also been able to carry out semantic searches with it working well.

What I have not managed to do so far is to and more than one property to an item. What I mean is that Dirk Maggs is a director, producer, weighed,male these are all different properties so far attempts to add a second property or more to Dirk Maggs has failed, I am not sure what I have done wrong yet.

It's something that I do need to get right as when it comes to actors they to can have more than one property and can have more than one production that they are associated with, so it's something that I need working for my website to work.


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Life

Well life continues to be a constant surprise in just how evil some humans can be to each other, I am referring to the fact that in Norway one man killed nearly 100 young people by posing as a policeman at a summer camp and then proceeded to kill as many people as he could, why?

Also this weekend just gone Amy white house a girl singer of 27 who had a lot of talent was found dead, I know she had a lot of demons, perhaps it was the demons that helped her to be so talented, I don't know.

It's just so very sad that she lost her life, what caused her death is not yet fully known but the general opinion is that it was drugs, I wonder if those that supplied her will ever get caught


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Dirk Maggs semantic wiki

Well it's been a while since I spoke about this project of mine, the truth be told I found that it's much harder than it looks to get the software on the website working correctly.

The good news is that over the weekend I found that some software that used to be very expensive to buy now has a community version of the software.

So I downloaded this and so far it all works, the down side is that it only runs as a system on my local machine and so is not on the Internet, which in hindsight is probably a good idea as I have already deleted it once and reinstalled it.

So all I have to now do is get my head around properties and and all the other semantic ideas that make up a semantic wiki.

I can see that it should help me with how I want to present and display all the data I have on all the Dirk Maggs productions.

So I have a lot of reading and thinking to do

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Semantic wiki

Not to sure if I have all the software completely and correctly installed yet, but I have smw+ installed on a localhost.

I have not yet worked out the best way to get all the pages into the wiki, is it better to. First just get the pages into the wiki and then to do the semantic bit?

I have been looking through the smw+ website for hints on this but have yet to find anything.

The other more long term problem is once if if I ever get the wiki working how I want it how do I transfer the test database to the production wiki?

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Lonely

Can you be lonely when there lots of people around you?


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Music

How do composers weather they are pop or classical, as I don't think it matters for this question, how do they get the sound of the tune in their heads out into the real world?

How do they make something that only exists in their head on paper or being played on instruments?

If I got the chance to as a composer this question the next one would be.

Is what you heard in your head what you got to be played in the big wide world?

Good questions to which I again have no answers.


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Silly thought

What speed does sugar dissolve at ?

Does it dissolve fast in hot water than cold?
Does pressure make any difference ?

I don't know the answers to these questions


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Music

Just found on music demand on virgin media a two hour kraftwerk live show, which was really nice to see and hear lots of tracks that I never knew where theirs!

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Time

I have just last night realised already that we are starting to loose daylight, sad or what?


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Websites

I have not to tell the truth here done much to the Dirk Maggs website, I do have some good reasons for this, well that's what I am telling myself!

One reason would be the fact that Dirk has not done any new radio productions that have made it to air yet, or I have not yet found out about them, I suspect that it's the former not the latter.

The other "good" reason is that I just have not had the time or even more shocking the get up and go to do anything to the website, I know it's shocking but there you have it, I have said it, I just don't feel like doing any of my websites and that includes the Dirk Maggs one.

Why?

Not sure

There must be a reason but I don't know what it is at this time.

Perhaps in a few weeks I will feel like dining the website again, but fear not I will not take the Dirk Maggs website down as there is far to much work that has gone into and all the research that has also gone into it.


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Time

It's always amazing to me just how fast time seems to pass by when you are not looking.

Why is this?




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Tired

So how easy is it to be so tired that you are just too tired to sleep?

Yeah I know


It's a surprise when it creeps up on you.


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Happy

How does one decided if they are happy?

Does someone else decide that you are happy?

Do you have to be happy all the time?

I know these are just questions that I get now and then, I don't know the answers to them I just pose them.


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Cake

Yesterday managed to bake a fruit cake for the first time in months or possibly years.

The thing took four hours to cook!

But the end result was very worth it.


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Unhappy

When do you know that you are in the state of being unhappy?

I don't know


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Remember

Tried to post something in here, but looking at this on the web it appears not to have worked which is a shame, as I am sure it would have been good.

Skyline film

Just starting to watch this film, I must say that it's not very Good and we have seen 40 minutes of a 97 minute film


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Wet

So it's July so that means that it's wet very wet, but only because it's summer.


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Not much

There has not been much that I want to put down in the blog, most things that have been going on are just the normal grind of just living each day as it comes and as such is no different from anyone else that happens to live in the UK.


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July

Just noticed that it's already the forth of July and I have not done a blog, mainly as I have been to busy and also because I have not had anything to say.


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Work

So due to work and two training days I find myself away from home. Which for me is not usual as I really don't like being parted from Donna.

So where am I?

I am in Chatham Kent.

Yes I still miss being away from Donna.


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Weather

Today has been a great weather day with lots of sunshine. The blue sky has been great and I have had some luck in that I have had the chance to enjoy some of it, which is always nice.


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Waking

Waking up in a strange hotel room is always strange.


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Missing

Missing the person you love always to me hurts especially when it's been caused by work.


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Sleep

How come when you want to have a lie in and have a nice long sleep your body for reasons all of it's own decides that it wants to wake you up at stupid o'clock?



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Warm

Well today could be the hottest of the year, it feels like it.

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Reading

Started to read another book, yes I know I just don't care, I like to read.

Anyway the new book that I have just picked up and started to read is called The wave watcher's companion and it's by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and it's actually a good and very interesting book to read.

I must admit that his writing style is such that you don't realise just how many pages that you have turned and read as the subject matter is so very interesting and the way that he talks about it is easy to understand.

The book is about wave be they light water or sound and how the reattach and act on the world around us, so far I have learnt lots about the humble or not so humble sea waves and how they transmit energy over very large distances with very little loss.

I have even learnt how waves are created in the first place and what and why cause the wave to grow the way that they do.

So far I am only some 80 odd pages into the book but I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book to see what else I might learn about waves that I did not know before.


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Relationships

Just read an article in the Daily Mail of all things how sex is one of the main or even then main glue in keeping couples together.

Apparently without it a relationship soon breaks down.

That sex is so important makes sense when you see just how many relationship just appear to break up when in reality they died a long time before due to the couple not having a close and continuing sexual relationship with each other.


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Reading

I have completed reading the book on house and I must admit that it was a book that I enjoyed reading, I did learn lots of new things that I never knew.

The only thing that I did not like about the book was how often it went all American on me, but thinking about that as I write this I think that in the end the author had it right in that a lot of stuff did go on in the USA which has had an effect not just on the world but also on the home.

In fact a lot of the stuff in the home would not be there if not for what happened in the USA.

Is that a bad thing?

I don't think so because if it did not happen in the USA it would have happen somewhere else eventually.

So the book is well worth a look at even if you only look at some of the chapters, you will pick up something that you did not know.


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Wave watching

So when was the last time you did some wave watching?

If you happen to glance up during the day and look at the clouds as the move about above you, then you are looking at waves.

In the case of clouds you are seeing the result of air waves pushing and pulling the clouds.


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Mother in law

So mother in law is out of hospital, which is good, not sure that she is coping with what is going on but the sad news is that the cancer has spread from the kidney to the major vein in the area, the cancer is slow growing.

Not really sure what to think about it all at this time.


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Skype

Just last night tried for about the fourth or fifth time skype.

The only pity is that the iPad does not have a camera, the iPad 2 does and I suppose that the iPad 3 will also have one.

But daughter has her netbook which does have a camera and she has taken great delight in using skype to talk to her mum, having a guided tour of daughters flat was fun.

So will I use skype again?

I will as long as I can get a wifi signal then why not.


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Mid summer

I am told that it is mid summers day either today or tomorrow not that it would make much difference as it's been so wet and cloudy that it's getting hard to tell if it's even June, I mean that overnight last night the temperature dropped to single figures!

This is June!

So it's unlikely that I will see the benefit of a long summer evening.


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Pictures

I had the job last night of transferring the pictures on my main computer to an external hard disc, there was some 21 giga of pictures and for some reason that I have yet to work out it took nearly and hour and thirty minutes to do the transfer, I know that it is a lot of data but why did it takes so long?


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BBQ

Well we had the BBQ on Saturday and apart from a bit of a drama in getting the gazebo up, with only one strut broken, which when you go to the website from which we brought the gazebo is not a rare occurrence.

The BBQ was okay all appeared to have enjoyed themselves which when you think of it is the whole reason for having it in the first place.

Mind you the clear up the next day is not so much fun.


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Fathers Day

So Sunday was fathers day and much to my surprise I actually got two cards this year and also some iTunes cards with money on!

So thank you to my two kids...

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First aid

Next week I have to do another first aid course, now why is it that it is some thing that I dread?

I have done the course every three years for years now, so why don't I like doing the course?

Not a clue, in all that time have used all that training just once when some one collapsed at work, they were okay later.


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Eclipse

The eclipse of the Moon last night was from what I read very good with the Moon a great red colour, I know this as there was a feed from a telescope where there were no clouds.

Here in the UK we had cloud and cloud and yet more cloud.


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Spar

So Donna and Charlene had a spar day for Charlene's birthday she is now 23!

From what Donna said she enjoyed it very much and that she would like to do it again.


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BBQ

Sortie Saturday is the planned date for Charlene's Hawaiian BBQ so can you guess what the weather looks like its going to be like?

Yes

Rain

Not sure if it's worth having a BBQ in the rain even with a gazebo.


I suppose I will have to keep looking at the weather forecast to see if it will change and get any better.


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Gazebo

So it's daughters birthday today and as is normal these days she wants to have a party on Saturday. As most folk are working it's been decided that the BBQ will be in the early evening and as it can sometimes get a little chilly, it's be decided to get a gazebo which will allow all ten or so of us to all be under cover.

Well the good news is that it turned up yesterday and it's six meters long and three meters wide.

It just fits the garden but as it was the first time that we have ever had a gazebo it took more than two hours to put up as we did not know how far we need to pull everything out and also just how much work there is in getting the roof on, as it's not fitted when you get it, but the good news is that you can leave it on afterwards.

Once up it's big and has plenty of room.

Taking it down was less than five minutes!

So that's good.

Just wonder how long it will take to put up on Saturday.


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Wet

So June is so far been more wet than sunny which I suppose is only right after the brilliant spring that we had, also the garden needs the rain, so I am not complaining as it saves me the job of watering the garden.


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Guildford

Ended up go to Guildford yesterday holding to pick up some stuff to help make some cupcakes, we were going to go to Lakeland Plastics, the surprise for us was that they had no power so where closed the same thing had also happens to several other shops near to it, so not a day for them and it meant we had to look else where for what we were after.


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Cupcakes

So we brought a mixer and loads of ingredients and with a recipe in hand from the Internet we have decided to make as a test run for daughters birthday, cupcakes!

The recipe is for Pimms No1 cupcakes and I must say that in the end they did turn out to be really nice, we made twelve and when I looked this morning there where only nine left and there are only three of us in the house at this time so someone has been enjoying themselves.


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Tents

It's my daughters birthday soon with her being 22 years old and she wants to have a Hawaii style BBQ so as it's June we have to be a bit worried about the weather as this is the UK and so we have decided as we are having the BBQ later in the day that as it might also be cool as well as windy that a large gazebo might be they way to go.

Find one that will fit in the garden has been fun, most appear to be for garden that are much much bigger than ours, but we have found one, which is good news.

The only thing that we will have to watch out for will be that it is not too windy on the day as these things don't appear to be made to withstand really bad weather that includes lots of strong winds.


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Flags

As we are having a Hawaii themed BBQ for daughters birthday we thought it would be a great idea to have a flag flying, and why not, it will certainly make the neighbours look twice at what is going on at least.

Now until we ordered the flag I had no idea what the Hawaii flag was like, I suspected that it would be the same as the USA flag.

We how wrong can you be!

The Hawaii flag has the Union Flag in it along with blue and White stripes!

And no I have no idea how the Union flag has ended up on it!

It must be an interesting story which when I get time I shall have a look at.

So the flag that we got is 5 foot by 3 and it looks great, wonder if the neighbours will work out what country the flag is for?


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Progress

Mother in law is getting better, news is that they are hoping to let her home on Sunday!


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Rain

We have actually had some rain, which is so good as I don't have to water the garden, which I like a lot as it takes ages to water all the plants, as there are rather a lot of them.


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Slides

Found a box of slides that date back to 1989 which I don't even remember taking!

I know even I was surprised what was on the slides, the fun bit was that I decided to use the scanner that we have to scan some of the slides into the computer.

Well to cut a very long story short it took me more than 3 hours to work out how to scan them in as I had to find a part of the scanner that allows you to scan slides and film negatives.

The other problem that I had was working out how to remove a panel so that a secondary light source was made to work so that the scanner could see the slides.


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Donna

This is a picture of Donna my wife. I think its a good picture of her.

Operations

Things on the hospital front have moved on a bit and the good news is that Mother in Law is now off the ventilator and is looking Tobermory discharged from Hospital within 5 days, I believe so as to reduce the risk of her picking up a Hospital acquired infection.


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Operations

Well Mother in law had her operation that went on for more than five hours, the result is not what we wanted with her in intensive care and kept in a medically induced coma.

The reason?

They had to remove her spleen as well as her kidney and she apparently also lost a lot of blood, hence the main reason for the induced coma is to give a body a chance to recover a bit from the Truman of the operation.

I am told that today they will review her and probably all being well take her out of the coma.

Let's hope so.


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Ios5

So Apple have talked about the new operating system that is coming for the iPad called ios5 it seems to have lots of new bits, not sure at this time just how many of the new bits will be of use to me but I will find out when they release it in September or October.


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Icloud

The icloud has been talked about by Apple, and what is very strange that I have just used part of it, and it feels no different than just using the Internet over wifi, so I have to say that so far to me at least it just works, and surly that's all that you want from it?

I don't think I will be able to use the other parts of the cloud until the operating system on the iPad is updated later on this year, by which time when that happens it will just be normal, and it will hopefully just work, so more when all this stuff happens.


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James FOLLETT website

For the first time in a long time I have done some updates to the James FOLLETT website mainly because I finally found the correct username and password to allow me to get in to my own website!

I know, silly thing to do loosing that sort of information but hey that's what happens in the real world.

So I have only changed a few pages, mainly because there is very little new information to add to the site, as James has I think retired form writhing novels, which is sad as I liked what he wrote, I must have as the number of hours I spent doing the website must be in the thousands, and it was one of the very early websites.

So my plan is to update when I have or find any new information. One thing that I did do was to update the software that runs the site, which I hope will keep it working smoothly.


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Operations

The mother in law today goes in for a big operation, which is to remove a kidney that has cancer in it, I understand that the operation will take four or more hours and that recovery will take six or more weeks, as she is also getting on in years it will be an anxious time to see if she comes out of all of this.

I am told that if she gets over the operation then she should be good for at least another ten or more years as the cancer is confined to just her kidney.


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Relationships

It's amazing just how a relationship can have so many ups and downs in it and yet still survive.


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Rain

Just want to record here that it's been raining non stop now for several hours, the rain is not heavy but it's there and enough so that in a car you have to have the wipers on to see where you are going, I think this is the most rain that I have seen in months, I know that the garden needs it, it was just so very strange having to drive in the rain!


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Drinks

So it's nice and warm and it's June so it's Pimms time!

So very nice, only thing is I forget just how strong Pima is an alcoholic drink, but nice anyway.


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Wrong

Is it wrong to still be madly in love with the same person thirty years later and still want to be with her all the time?


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Sunshine

Just a random thought, does the intensity of the light in the Summer because it's higher make you feel better than when in the winter on blue sky days.


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Blue sky

Yet another great start to the day with some great blue sky.


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Cooking

Yesterday as is our want we tried a new recipe.

To say that it was not a success would be an understatement things did not go exactly to plan with one of the ingredients being in the end too small, but these are the sort of things that just make life more interesting.

We were having eggs in baked potato with mushrooms in a butter sauce, the only problem was that the potato's were really too small, but as that is what we had that's what we had to use.

In the end the meal was okay but it did not look very nice, but it did taste great.



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Website update

Managed to do some updates to the main website that I have, I think after about an hour or so I managed to get some ten more pages working correctly, which is good.

It's just sad that some of these pages have been broken for more than a year!

Most have pictures missing or the formatting of tables and text is broken in some way, sometimes the tables don't venter and the text in the boxes dos not line up.

So it goes without saying that it can take some time to sort out each page, trouble is that the website has I think more than two hundred pages, not all of them have pictures but most of them have tables of some kind.

At the current rate of progress I think most of the site will be working in some shape or other by the end of the year.


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Computer programmes

How is it that you can still get software today, that does not have any decent instructions?


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Sunlight

Even after just a few dull days it's nice to see some blue sky and bright sunshine, it always seems that people are in a better mood when the sun is shinning, why is that?


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Blood

Did I say here that I gave blood again for the second time this year and I given 118 donations so far!

I think that I have the right to be very happy that I have managed to get to such a number.

I still hate the bit where they pull off the tape that holds the tube from the needle to the collecting bag, why is that bit so painful?


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Podcasts

Funny thing about all the podcasts that I listen to each week is just how much I miss them when I don't have them to listen to which was a bit of a surprise to me, and it was also a surprise on just how many podcasts I listen to each week.

The longest podcast that I listen to each week last two hours and is just all music, normally trance but sometimes it's other types of music that are just as good, and the best thing of all is that all the podcasts that I listen to are free!



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Reading

Just started to read a book that I have been waiting to come out in paperback by an author that I like a lot. He writes non fiction books that has a gentle humour right through them which I like, and so do a lot of other folks as his books tend to be in the top of the best seller lists.

The book of his that I am reading is called At Home and it's by Bill Bryson, so far it's been good, I really can not say much more than that as I have not read that much of the book so far, but I am sure that the book will be just as good as the other books of his that I have read.

I will report back when I have completed the book.


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