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      Myself as I am self-employed. Whenever I want some time off my boss says that I can have it. Unfortunately I am also the worst employee I've ever had, constantly taking time off.

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      (a) A little, thank you. The anti-inflammatories (which I keep calling anti-depressants - Freud would have a field day) are making it less painful - I can make a big circle with my arms, but it isn't very round. Physio awaits in a few weeks.

      (b) Yes, though it doesn't seem to email me to notify me when there's a new question, hence the delay in answering. Sorry.

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      One that sold expensive biscuits. I could buy two for $500 each, then eat one whilst looking forward to eating the other.

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      Despite the continual rejections, worries that I have no work and worries that I have too much work, it is the job that I have now (freelance writer). It is much better than my worst job which was being a traffic surveyor. I had to stand on a motorway bridge in November and count all the cars, vans, motorbikes, coaches and lorries (subdivided into number of axles) in a particular lane.

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      Apparently it is to be doing something you like doing whilst looking forward to something else that you like doing. eg having a cup of tea and looking forward to having a biscuit. Or having a plate of sausage risotto and looking forward to having a biscuit. Or having sex with a beautiful woman and looking forward to having sex with another beautiful woman. And a biscuit. Or having a biscuit and looking forward to having another biscuit.

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      I knew when I started that I was only going to be writing here about the minutiae of life as that's what I find funny and/or interesting. After three and a half years of postcodes, Venn diagrams, bath mats and sideburns I think it has lived up to its billing.

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      They are fine now, thank you. I have had my hair cut by a professional and they are even and level once more (well, as even and level as my ears are, which are my points of reference).

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      It is one for the Venn diagram intersection of C++ programmers and homeopathy sceptics.

      The first entry is a viable piece of anti-virus software (it actually calls a function which does all the work, but we will assume that this does the job OK).

      As you correctly understood, the second entry is a placebo - it clearly does nothing (though someone running the program might believe that it was working if, coincidentally, their computer had no viruses).

      The third entry also does nothing as the line that would do something is commented out. When compiled it would produce an executable program exactly the same as the placebo. But a homeopath might argue that the memory of the functional code is still there, so therefore it should get rid of viruses in a special magic way.

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