Archive for the 'General' Category

Phlebotomy

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

I went for my first ever session of blood letting yesterday.  I can’t say I feel any better (nor worse) for the experience but hopefully someone can make good use of the blood given.  The first chirurgeon decided that she couldn’t find a suitably large vein in either arm so called over someone else.  He […]

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Link to a Youtube vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= 
Enjoy

Thoughts on Music

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Steve Jobs has recently posted his “Thoughts on Music”.
Its very well worded; mainly, I think, to try to push any responsibility for DRM onto the big four (Universal, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner). Still it is interesting to note that Steve, and hence Apple inc., would drop DRM in a heartbeat if they didn’t […]

Common sense revolts at the idea

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm
‘An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is “seriously misguided”, a House of Lords committee has said.’
Sometimes the House of Lords does something to make me really glad that they exist. Now I’m no expert on the workings of our UK political system, but it seems […]

A boring post for most of you

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I was sorting through my Magic the Gathering cards last week (a game I used to play. A lot) and decided that rather than sitting uselessly in the box I could probably put together a few useful decks and use them occasionally. But, as always seems to happen with this game, it turns […]


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