Archive for September, 2009
If, like me, you spend a significant amount of time editing text on-line (and you use Firefox) you will appreciate the It’s All Text! plugin. This marvellously simple idea saves time and effort when editing text in text areas on-line. Better yet, it allows the use of your favourite text editor when doing so. Once [ READ MORE ]
Once upon a time a small boy lived in army housing in a small village, well not even a village really, called Longcross in Surrey. He wiled away his summer vacation playing with friends in the woods that surrounded the street on which he lived. All the usual pastimes of a pre-teen boys were theirs [ READ MORE ]
The UK government has announced that it is rejecting a management review recommendation that the NHS workforce be cut by 10%. Some have asked, ‘why commission a management review and then ignore the recommendations it makes?’ This should be obvious. We can expect, in the near future, announcements from the government that less money will [ READ MORE ]
I’m not much for promoting fund raising for individuals, preferring to support charities that provide support for many, but every now and then something touches me and this is one of those occasions. Tilly is a little girls who… well, her mother tells the story best. Our little girl became ill at the age of [ READ MORE ]
This morning my MacBook Pro did something odd. Or rather it didn’t do something normal. This morning I booted up and logged in as normal. My machine is configured to start a whole host of helper applications and a few applications I always fire up in the morning, but this morning the machine booted, I [ READ MORE ]
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