To love or be loved is to make yourself utterly vulnerable.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
Bernard Meltzer.
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One of the greatest beauties of humanity is creativity and adaptability.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 (American author and philosopher)
“Too many people over-value what they are not, and under-value what they are.”
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
Suffered another set-back with my PC last night – but not topping the smoking incident.
On a friend’s advice, I decided to give ZoneAlarm a try. This is a reputable software firewall, which, along with many third-party tools, beats the firewall that came with Windows XP Service Pack 2 any day in my opinion. However, that was when disaster struck.
Firstly the PC would no longer boot into Windows XP. Checking the hard disk using the Recovery Console from the installation CD also did not help. In pure desperation – since I had many photos with no back-up and some personal records on the boot hard disk – I took the boot disk to work and tried chkdsk again. Fortunately, after the first repair, I was able to read most of the data and thereby copy to a safer place. However, subsequent chkdsk’s sometimes made the same disk unreadable.
Just want to leave a quick update about the Left Behind series. I had started on the final book of the series, Glorious Appearing or Book 12 in the series, about 4-5 months ago and was probably a third of the way into it when I stopped. Guess the thought of the ‘final victory’ made the ending kind of predictable – as would all who is familiar with the Bible!? Have not really managed to get beyond the battle in Jerusalem, but will probably get back to it after I finish Ender 6.