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Not dead yet - and talking

Oh my - work is backing up again, and the precious easter holidays were nice but too short (and I spent one day doing my accounts instead of spending it with the family). Also - there always seems to be something happening: if the work situation is good, then problems on the private front creep up. Spent the easter weekend having long and good talks with my wife. Something that I have learnt during my life (and old relationships gone bad) is that you need to talk about your feelings, about your concerns. Earlier I always was afraid of saying what my thoughts, wishes, desires were. Fear of “not being loved” anymore, fear of hurting the other. That this not talking led to much more pain in the long run… well it took a while to learn that. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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P800 emulator working again

There were two things that set back my P800 development last week: My Symbian emulator crashed right after startup - making debugging of my application just a bit problematic Way too much work - three clients, three deadlines While I can do something about the second point (work, work some more, and then work at night), there’s nothing much I could do about the constant crashing. The helpful people on the forums weren’t being helpful so my app is sitting on the backburner at the moment. ...

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Atropin - don't try this at home

One of these funny stories - looking at them retrospectively: I have been wearing glasses since I was 4 or 5 years old. I’m so used ot them, that they don’t disturb me the least. Until now I thought that my two kids (aged 3 and 5) wouldn’t need glasses because we always had the impression that they had great eyesight. But: My older son complains about headaches a lot - and that is a symptom of bad eyesight. So of to the ophthalmologist for a check with the two. And indeed - they have problems. The doctor want’s to do a more thorough check after a couple of days. In preparation for that, the kids have to have atropin drops applied the night before. Ever tried to give small kids drops into the eye? ...

Jens-Christian Fischer