Dropsafe

First, let me take you back to 2004: news.bbc.co.uk Thursday, 18 November, 2004, 16:20 GMT No beef over Bovril’s veggie move Bovril, the beefy drink beloved of football fans, has been stripped of its main meaty ingredient in a bid to boost sales, its maker has confirmed. […] A spokesman for the firm said a…

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Ibuprofen does take the edge off the ribs and leave me feeling well-disposed towards the universe – or at very least capable of movement – but 800mg since teatime is probably a tad too much. I’ll keep the fluids up and lay off it tomorrow. Excellent programme on BBC4 tonight; a compilation of all of…

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Well there’s good news and bad news; the day in bed – capped by a long, luxurious, hot bubble bath downstairs – worked really well, but the excess of sleep gave me a slightly uncomfy night, but I even managed to rest on my side for 15 minutes or so. The BBC World Service is…

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Yum… a whole lotta NSA-Interception spooky goodness, plus third-party information protection requirements… As an aside, I’ll stick with open standards and OTR; I need tighter security and management than traditionally available in enterprise products. news.com.com.com.com The days of companies using unsecure consumer technology for instant messaging are numbered, according to AOL and online conferencing company…

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spend the day in bed. g’wan, it’s allowed; plus it’ll give all the bruised bits a chance to heal.

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Warm split pitta-breads stuffed with two kinds of lettuce, and Waitrose’s “Supreme” Taramosalata. Nice stuff, but I think it needed a touch of extra lemon. Home-grown plum tomatoes, too. It’s nice to be back to a normal diet.

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Well, I’m back from the Hampshire Clinic, and my long chat with Dr Rossiter – a very nice man if you ever need a knee person, I recommend him highly. We went through the results of the CT scan, which have been measured “very carefully”, and then were reviewed by Dr Rossiter and all the…

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Not that this is anything to do with 9/11 or anything, but I’m increasingly astonished at how the British public’s approach to dealing with mourning has changed over the past three decades: From my youth I’ve no memory of roadside floral displays lasting more than a couple of weeks where someone’s been knocked over on…

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I had a stupendous piece of spam this morning, guaranteed to wind-up several of my colleagues in SunLabs:: SEMANTIC WEB VERSION II: Google is coming up with Semantic web. Are you ranking well with this latest algorithm of search engines and will you continue to rank well? Is you website LSI compliant? Search Engines like…

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DaveW came to visit today, and helped with the gardening; the side footpath was heavily overgrown so we attacked it with loppers and secateurs, and he barrowed-away the debris. I then fitted him up with the Stihl leaf-blower, and the path is now clear, too. On the back of all this, I made some progress…

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The secret cost of Oyster testing: Mouse mortality… Independent For the third time in a year, Arcachon’s world-renowned oyster farms have been shut down – following the deaths of two people who had consumed the local produce. Furious at the threat to their livelihood, the farmers insist a good bivalve never hurt anyone. The Bay…

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Creative Paper Wales As every craftsperson will tell you, it all begins by using only the very finest materials. We take great care to collect super-fresh sheep poo from the beautiful (and rainy) mountains of rural Wales and take it back to the mill, situated in southern Snowdonia. We don’t just make Sheep Poo Paper(tm)…

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