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The 2010 Social Networking Map

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

From Flowtown an up to date “map” of social networking sites.

More brickbats than bouquets?

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Yet again a new government in the UK sets its eyes on the NHS. Why is it that change in the NHS has to be dramatic and so, so, expensive both in financial and human terms? Is it really the case that having had to concentrate on the cold war for all those years politicians [...]

Twitter – I’m torn.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

The title says it all really, I have two contrasting views on Twitter. First up it’s fun and possibly useful, of that there is no doubt. Chris Brogan summed it up recently on the blog. You can research things rapidly. “Everything” is happening on Twitter first – so can you afford to be not in [...]

Who do you write like?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

From the ever rewarding Word magazine’s “Something for the Weekend” newsletter came the link to the site www.iwl.me which apparently tells you who you write like. First, tried it with some random blog postings and it said that I wrote like David Foster Wallace of whom I had never heard, it seems that he had [...]

World Cup – Last Comment

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I didn’t hear this but my brother assures me that a German journalist said of the English team following their defeat by Germany. “Their problem is that they think they play like Beckham looks, the reality is that they play like Rooney looks.”

More from the World Cup

Friday, June 18th, 2010

I know the hype continues – I have even got the Vuvuzela App for my iPhone. I have to admit I’m focussed on The All Blacks v Wales tomorrow morning and my sympathies go to the Welsh U.20 team that were beaten by Argentina, the home team, at the Junior World Cup yesterday. After being [...]

Great Plate for a Dentist

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

I like personalised number plates and own two of them, A14 LUN & A15 AKR which are on my car and motor bike respectively. The former came into my life a few months after my father’s death; I had just managed to sell his old car, a 12 year old Ford Granada for not a [...]

The World Cup Approaches…..

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

…..and there’s sod all I can do to avoid it. From the ever excellent Word “massive”. Media template Set hysterically high expectations; Destroy confidence of main players with revelations about their private lives; Blame team for failing to meet the unreasonable expectations with an opening 1-1 draw; Blame ref, ball, or cheating opposition for first [...]

Damning comment from the BDJ

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Good, brief paper in the current BDJ by Jim Page, John Weld & Edwina Kidd on “Caries control in health service practice.” Summary states:It is suggested that it makes sense for dentists providing care for individual patients to take account of caries risk (as assessed by presentation of active, non-cavitated lesions) when deciding how to [...]

Day 29 – the Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done – Roz Savage

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

If you’re a regular here you’ll know that I have been following Roz’s exploits for some while now. At present she’s a month or more into the third leg of her row across the Pacific. This blog post made me stop and think, particularly the paragraph …it made me ponder that in the context of [...]