Question

I have no idea where my life is going or why it has gone the way it has.

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Wow

Last Friday I said goodbye to my form as they have been for the last five years. Very emotional for both parties as I have been like a surrogate father to them. I have cared, understood their worries and solved their problems.

I have been overwhelmed by the gifts they bought me and more so by the words they wrote - it has made all of the stress worth while. I have never felt this way before, so proud of what they have achieved and pleased that I was able to be a part of their journey - I will miss them.

Wonderful Wubi

I've been messing around with Ubuntu and discovered the Wubi way of installing it on Windows. So, after using Fixmbr to restore the Windows Boot Loader I downloaded the Ubuntu iso and Wubi and went for it. I have never been overly happy with Grub on a Windows System as if you wanted to remove and replace your Linux distribution you could not simply delete your Linux partition and start again.

I have been running it for a week or so on a Laptop and a PC. And it is starting to drag me back to using a proper operating system after years away from Sun Solaris and OpenVMS.

Happy New Year

:-) !!

Bleeps

No bleeps for two weeks - yey!

Lost

I am so lost.

Options

If in doubt, choose Option 'C'. If you can't think of Option 'C' its best to make a Cup of Tea to help.

Regaining some of the faith

The other day, well umm, yesterday, I bought the book 'Code' by Charles Petzold. In glancing through most of it, I realised that I knew off by heart most of the content. That is not to say that I am disappointed that I bought it, but rather to admire such a formation of knowledge put in such a way. I am sure that I will learn some things that I did not already know in the process of digesting its content.

Teaching can be so depressing as it is hampered by constant failure from below as well as above. And sometimes (well quite a bit at the moment) I feel as if the purity of the dream that is to love ICT is beaten down by those who have to learn it as well as those who orchestrate its very position within the system.

Computing like most complex things can be both beautiful and frustrating at the same time. Beautiful because of what you see and what it has the power to do. Frustrating because you may not understand its construction or have the perseverance to pursue the disciplines required to comprehend such entities as Software creation. And yet, if you do not persevere with the frustration, how will you ever understand how beautiful something can actually be?

Dreaming of what must come.

I know that going to work is comming back soon (despite planning for the last two weeks) because I was 'planning' in my sleep and realised by simulating the lesson in the room it will happen in that I had missed something, so today I need to make a correction to my plan so that I do not. That 'thing' was the need to create a 'cover sheet' by the students for their work wallets. Ouch - scary - but that is the way the mind works.

Did not manage to get Windows SP3 installed. I have given up, will probably rebuild the laptop from scratch at some point.