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Old 01-09-2010, 07:54 PM   #1
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Terry Pratchett about living with Alzheimer's
I like some of Pratchetts' books but think that I'll buy some more.


This is from the BBC. Don't forget to click on the "RELATED" link to the right after watching his main speech.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...=true&bbcws=2#

This is from a 2008 event.
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Old 01-09-2010, 09:01 PM   #2
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Thanks for that. I had no idea he had alzheimers.
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I had no idea ether...... I do enjoy his works, and wish him the best. Alzheimers to me is perhaps my most feared disease.
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Thoughts and prayers go out to Terry and the Pratchett family. Best Wishes
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Well...maybe not prayers, as Pratchett is an atheist.
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There was a thread about it here when he first announced it - luckily he was diagnosed with it very early, and more luckily, as he says, he has "a good variant of it to have".
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This is from the BBC. Don't forget to click on the "RELATED" link to the right after watching his main speech.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...=true&bbcws=2#

This is from a 2008 event.
Don't go to this link. It will resize your browser window.
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Old 01-10-2010, 07:56 AM   #9
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Pretty hard to see it without going to the link. Besides that stupid resizing happens all the time....doesn't do it here anyway - Firefox
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Pretty hard to see it without going to the link. Besides that stupid resizing happens all the time....doesn't do it here anyway - Firefox
I am running Firefox and it does resize my browser window. Also it wants me to install a Windows Media 11 plugin that I don't want.
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I am running Firefox and it does resize my browser window. Also it wants me to install a Windows Media 11 plugin that I don't want.

Hmmm. I don't know why then. It's not doing that here as I said. I may already have that plugin, I didn't have to install anything to see it. And it was definitely worth viewing.
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I am running Firefox and it does resize my browser window. Also it wants me to install a Windows Media 11 plugin that I don't want.
I am running firefox as well, and it didn't resize browser window for me. I might have had the plugin already installed. I'm pretty certain the page doesn't have any dangerous content, and the speech is very good.
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If you don't want to risk the browser windows being resized or having to install Windows Media Player 11 plugin, use MS IE (just for this one site).
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I'd consider using IE a much bigger annoyance than having the browser window resized

Opera has settings that prevent windows being resized with javascript, maybe Firefox has similar settings?
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