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Quotation: Quotations

Posted in quotations on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?

–Dr. Who

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Days, not Years

Posted in musing, tagged on April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I came across an interesting post (Your Age in Days) via How To Live blog. Pete Russell has calculated out his age in days.
It’s an interesting thought. It was amazing to me how many days I have already lived. But have I truly lived them? Or have I spent them mindlessly puttering from one task [...]

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Quotation: Ironing

Posted in quotations on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being — hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
–Erma Bombeck

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Worldview and Tragedy

Posted in musing, tagged , , on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Last night, I was talking to my partner about the shootings at Virginia Tech, and how on the same day over 100 people had died as the result of suicide bombers in Iraq. Why, I was asked, was it that 32 people dying was getting so much more press than 120?
I didn’t know what to [...]

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Permanence

Posted in musing, tagged on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent. – Buddha
This quote struck me this morning with the thought “How do we know what is permanent?” As I ran through things in my mind, I quickly discarded things like situations, jobs, relationships, material possessions…all can change without warning, and none were ever intended to [...]

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Quotation: Good Examples

Posted in quotations on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

–Catherine Aird

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On Using Music to Defuse Stress

Posted in musing, tagged , on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not sure if this particular thing is because I’ve been involved in music for so long, but I find that music has the power to soothe or rev me up more than anything else I have tried.
I’ve had a very stressful past few days. Last Friday I ended up having to have the stress [...]

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Humility…and Arrogance

Posted in musing, tagged , on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week the topic of arrogance came up twice. The first time in conversation I started defining what arrogance was. It wasn’t hard to find. Three of the programmers I have worked with in the recent past were very arrogant. They thought they knew everything there was to know about programming, and no one else [...]

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