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Comment on It’s weird what brings you back…. by Joe

Joe — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:20:54 +0000

I’m 50! The tripod was a little ‘ball and socket’ affair – by closing the tripod up and shoving hard in to the end of the scaffolding pole it was very robust!

It never does go away – I’m still looking around for a new telescope – looking forward to doing some viewing!

Comment on It’s weird what brings you back…. by steve

steve — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:02:28 +0000

Hi Joe, we must be of a similar vintage I too had a telescope yes a tasco with a table top tripod but I was looking at the southern hemisphere skies.
The love of astronomy never goes away does it?
All the best.
Steve

Comment on Gender Disappointment – psychological condition or just spoilt? by Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:50:53 +0000

I’m sorry you’re disgusted. One of the nice things about the Internet is that I can express a viewpoint and you can choose to agree with it, disagree with it, or whatever. You know bugger all about me, so I think you’re making some assumptions about me that are inevitably going to be wrong.

Feel free to call me ‘narrow minded and insensitive’ – I’ve expressed an opinion that I stick with. That’s why the site is called Joe’s Jottings – they’re my opnions.

Thanks for dropping by.

Comment on PHP Session Variables and AJAX by Steve

Steve — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:45:29 +0000

I had exactly the same problem trying to work out why session variables weren’t available to my php script and also blamed it on Ajax, then after reading this page I realized I’d forgotten to add session_start() to my php script as well. Thanks Joe, you saved me a nasty headache!

Comment on Gender Disappointment – psychological condition or just spoilt? by Disgusted

Disgusted — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:46:04 +0000

I’m disgusted by your article. What gives you the right to judge another person’s right to grieve over something they don’t have and dearly want? You make the assumption that someone suffering from gender disappointment doesn’t love the children they have enough. Have you ever heard a mother say “I wish I had never had my because I wanted a “? I very much doubt it. That’s not what gender disappointment is about. It’s not about not loving your children, it’s about feeling a deep disappointment that you don’t ALSO have a child of the other gender.

The desire to have a child can be completely overwhelming (just ask any couple who battles infertility), and the desire for a particular gender can be almost as strong.

One person’s grief over not having a child of a particular gender does not take away the grief of a parent with a handicapped child, or that of a child-less couple. Each is entitled to their own grief. Grief is about experience. One person’s level of grief is measured against their own past experiences.

You call the sufferers of gender disappointment “spoiled”? Well I call you narrow-minded and insensitive.

And in case you think I’m biased, no I’m not. I have a pigeon pair and am thankful every day that I am lucky enough to have the precious experience of mothering both a son and a daughter.

Comment on Installing PEAR packages on WAMP by Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:13:52 +0000

Hi, and ty for the post, mine works to some extent.

After I have done the PEAR installation, it shows this path in the php.ini file(right at the bottom)

;***** Added by go-pear
include_path=”.;D:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5\PEAR”
;*****

The path is correct, but what you are showing in your post, makes me wonder if I have to cut this and paste it where you are saying it must go.

I can go as far as downloading the packages via CMD, but when I want to install it, it gives me “require_once Structure/…” basically, its says that the it cant get certain files.

I have another question about my paths:
bin/php/php5.3.5/PEAR

then there is this one

bin/php/php5.3.5/PEAR/PEAR

why is there another PEAR folder with more files in? which is the correct folder to specify in my php.ini?

Thanks, please help

Comment on And there’s one more thing… by Just one more thing…. | Joe's Jottings

Just one more thing…. | Joe's Jottings — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:37:51 +0000

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Comment on Left to Apple, 2014 could be like 1984…revisited… by Joe

Joe — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:09:40 +0000

Thanks! As I mentioned the other day I got hit by life from November onwards! I shall try and be regular now!

Comment on Left to Apple, 2014 could be like 1984…revisited… by lostsoul

lostsoul — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:48:29 +0000

Welcome back to the blogsphere Joe. I have missed your blogs.
All the best.
steve.

Comment on The Movie Star and the Secret Weapon….. by Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:42:26 +0000

Yes, it was quite surprising. I suppose for a while there would have been secrecy issues, the fact that they were both non-American probably didn’t help either!!

Thanks for commenting and sorry I didn’t reply before!