Having the balls for it Part 2

For anyone who is worried about going in for a vasectomy. I have to say the operation was a lot less scary or painful than I thought beforehand. 
Getting the injection was by far the worst part. Its an odd sensation you can feel the anaesthetic going in very clearly, The operation was no more uncomfortable than [...]

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Having the balls for it …

I’m going in for a vasectomy today. It seems silly to be nervous or even embarrassed about a routine operation under local anaesthetic which I know that many of my friends have had. Perhaps it would feel more routine if blokes talked more about such things.
I want to maintain the positive attitude that I’ll recover quickly.  At the moment I [...]

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The missing words round

Comparing the three versions of the lists this morning the first thing I’ve spotted is some discrepancies between my sources:
Sun’s own list and the Sierra and Bates book don’t include the reserved literals null, true and false  Given that Kathy Sierra is credited as one of the co-developers behind  the Sun Certified Professional 1.4 exam  I’m guessing these [...]

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Words don’t come easy to me

This week I’ve started studying for a Java Certification exam. I’m working with two excellent books which I would warmly recommend to anyone:

A Programmers Guide to Java Certification”  by Khalid A Mughal and Rolf W Rasmussen 
Java 2 Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates  

I’ve come back to the same exercise that discouraged me last [...]

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A busy 10 days …

As the humorist Paul Jennings once said
“I live permanently in the middle of a three-week period when things are a bit hectic; they’ve been a bit hectic for ten days, and I should have got through the worst of it in another ten days.”

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iSight (or the times I love technology)

I’m looking forward to the UK launch of the iPhone today. Not for myself you understand. After all, I’m a dad with two young daughters – there there is no way I can justify or even afford such an indulgence. I’m looking forward to it because its going to be one of the times when [...]

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Hello world!

Writing a first blog entry feels like one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Its echoing through my head that in order to do something well you mst start by doing it badly first - the hardest part is that  I know that whatever I write now is likely to be ’shocking’ as one of [...]

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