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16 years and a little under 3 hours ago my little Sister died of melanoma. Another 19 weeks marks 24 years since my Mother died of the same.
I'm back from taking the Daughter to Summer Soccer (just in the car before the thunderstorm) so will be having a few drinks.
Can't get pissed as I wish too as I have to be back at a customer site in the morning. Cause the 4 hour job I was sent for is just a little bit bigger than they thought.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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As ever, please accept my condolences, and I'll hoist a drink to your sister tonight. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Cancer is a bastard in all it's forms.
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It's almost as long as my mother has been in treatment. They get one and a few months later another b'tard pops up.
Heartfelt and understanding
Then hoist a beer and give Cancer, in all its forms, a big "Faarrrkkkk Orrfff!!!!"
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Keep your chin up and stay strong. Peace be with you today.
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Condolences, I've lost 2 friends to cancer this year.
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Make *sure* you're getting checked.
I went in to the dermatologist for him to check on a basil cell. This is sort of chancy as he always starts hacking away with a blade. Anyway, he did a full body check and found something in the middle of my back - never would have known it was back there... it was only stage 2, but still...
and condolences as well. Lost my Dad to cancer too damn long ago.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I can relate. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Cancer is f***ed, take it easy mate.
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future.
I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot.
I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became
Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there...
Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change.
Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4.
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Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!)
But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway...
And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through
All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
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Respect 
I cannot live without Internet 
In code we trust !
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it lives !!!!
good to see you back (even if hijacking the neighbours wifi for a while)
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Not hijacking, they gave me the WiFi key.
Only hassle was I was sharing with a 13 year old boy over a sub-1Mbit/sec connection, and had to be very circumspect as I didn't want to "kick him out of his PlayStation footie game" - which his mother browsing to FleaBay does! 
Mind you, he's a 13 YO boy: I'm not betting that it was his game that gets interrupted so much as his...um...special interest downloads... 
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har !
how long till you're back on your own system ?
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I am, as of yesterday afternoon.
Or will be, once every piece of software I own finishes updating itself automatically... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: special interest downloads
Richard Attenborough movies?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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It can suck some what. I'm surprised you didn't just buy a mobile dongle wongle and do your interneting from that.
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We live in a valley between two hills, and the walls are two foot thick granite. Mobile signals don't work in the house (to make a call I have to go sit in the car to stay out of the rain).
Interestingly, some friends came round who are on Vodafone, and their iPhones worked fine. So I'm looking at upgrading our mobiles to Android on Voda (currently I'm on Virgin, she's on EE)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Was an "interesting" experiment
So it was an experiment now, was it?
Glad to see you back in action!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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It was an experiment by somebody, who now has a Certain UK Telecomunications Company after him for two cases of criminal damage after a second wire crossing his property also "broke" and the engineers took a good, close look at the cables...
The phone(s) were fixed yesterday with a large police escort!
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Welcome to CodeProject! Please read and follow the rules.
Oh wait, you have been around here, right? I think I have seen this username here before.
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OK, this is just freaky !
You disappeared when Kim Jong-Un was missing and you pop-up again when I read in the newspaper: "Kim Jong-Un appears again in public"
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Well that at least proves I am not him: otherwise he would be disappearing out the back door just as I come in the front, expressing regret at having just missed me!
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Wow, welcome back!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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OriginalGriff wrote: Living without the internet
Get over it. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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