Hi,

As with any HTML, you have it directly in the PHP file, and as for the JavaScript code you either include it from that file or have it inline.

Thank you!

Congratulations!

Yep, definitely believe the web will play an important role for IoT.

How will machines/people know what IoT devices out there can do? How can we share or link sensor platforms without a standard?

Thanks for sharing, Nad.

For me, a number of years after this, what has helped for me at least has been focusing on other things. Friends, family, what I want to do and get out of life. Hope it works for you too.

I’m amazed at how your text mirrors what I feel. I am deathly afraid of dying for all the same reasons as you. It also hits me in waves, sometimes so bad that I need to stop doing whatever I am doing. I still have not figured out how to stop thinking about it, or learn how to live with the idea. Like you, I love my life, I love living, and that what makes it so hard. I cannot imagine not being here, even though I know I will probably not realize it.

I am by no means a religious person, even though I do believe in something (just not quite sure in what exactly). I don’t think I believe in life after death, which makes it that much harder to think about dying…

Naturally, that is ongoing work. We are looking into many ways of keeping it as fast as possible, it’s one very important objective for us.

Thank you! And yes, we need to work hard to keep that.

I love the browser, and it’s still my favorite choice, but I also use Firefox or Opera when I need many windows open.

…..Bob

Interesting questions, Leanna. I believe I think a lot less about it nowadays. Now and then it hits you, but generally I’m focusing more on making the most out of things. Being with my family, traveling and seeing the world, trying to be as good and kind to other people as I can.

John, thanks for sharing!

Perfect response. Thank you John

Robert…thank you for your post and for keeping it up. Do you have a follow up to it now that it has been ten years? Has your perspective or beliefs changed? More anxiety or acceptance? It would be interesting to read how your views on death have or have not changed.

Suffering (physical and mental), tragedies, unkindness and death are all part of the reality of the universe that I live in. To come to grips with life, accepting it for what it is, requires coming to grips with death, suffering and injustice. This is perhaps the most difficult, and most important, of all of life’s tasks.

There are times when I can do something to mitigate these upsetting truths and by doing this I will create and experience much satisfaction and fulfilment. Yet there are other times when such disappointing circumstances are outside of my control. However, to allow myself to worry about things which are outside of my control is to choose anxiety and this can lead to giving up on life (thus creating a far greater tragedy).

A more helpful approach would be to accept the bitterly disappointing truths about life, while at the same time choosing to focus on all the things that I can change, rather than on the things that I cannot change. I cannot change the fact of death, but as long as I’m alive and conscious I can choose how I live. There is no purpose or value in letting my awareness of death destroy me and dishearten others. I want to maximise the value of the experience of life shared by myself and by others right now in the present time (in this way refusing to let the future steal from the present).

I think this approach is useful and sensible, but it is not always easy to follow and to remember. I try to remind myself about the great value (to myself and others) that exists in the choices which I make. Even if this value and meaning will not continue into the future, if it matters now then it still matters!

Even if I find myself in the worst possible circumstance or with the worst possible perspective on life, I ought to still be able to find value and meaning in my life by recognising that I have the power to take control of how I respond to the circumstance or perspective. Whatever I want to be will define the choices that I make.

If life seems like a Nazi death camp (after all, no one is getting out alive), then what kind of prisoner am I going to be? I want to be the prisoner who is looking for a way of escape (such as by testing the trustworthiness of religious claims). Yet while there are none to be seen (which seems to be the case to me at present), I want to be the prisoner who is more concerned about helping others to be as comfortable as possible rather than being paralysed with fear. I want to play games with the children, who are somewhat oblivious to it all. I want to let laughter ring out and break the cold silence, even if only for a moment.

All I have is now
Not the future or the past
But I’ll seize the day
And make it count
To make the good things last.

I don’t get to choose
My beginning or my end
But my thoughts and acts
Are always mine
To these I will attend.

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But at my feet and on my friends
It gives a wonderful light.