Just amazing…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/5237824.stm
"Ipswich Hospital, in Suffolk, which is more than £16m in the red, accidentally breached an agreement to ensure all patients had similar waiting times.
Ipswich Hospital agreed with the East Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, which fund treatment, that patients should wait at least four months for treatment. "
Well that sounds very reasonable. The hospital […]
Major incident at Heathrow, eh?
Call me a tinfoil hat-wearing nutjob, but this occurs the day after John Reid made a speech to Demos where he stated that we faced the "most sustained period of severe threat since the end of World War II", rounded on Judges who "don’t get it" (i.e. they think that detaining […]
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.868200.0.our_children_are_being_robbed_of_their_childhoods.php
Gayle’s one of out neighbours, and we’re in the same boat. I’m also concerned that starting 4 year olds on a full day may be too much for them.
The council’s reason for the change?
"The reason the change has happened is to bring us in line with other councils."
So, the welfare of the children of Swindon […]
I’ve just finished reading Terry Hancock’s piece "Is free software communist? Maybe yes". It’s a reasonably poor article that fails to address the actual point of communism, which wasn’t about collaboration, but government enforced collaboration.
Open source software is copyrighted work. What is different about it from much mainstream software is that the copyright holder has […]
I checked out the Skoda website as I’m considering one of their cars.
I’m very pleased that Skoda have won some awards. But, I don’t want a test drive, and I can’t see where to go to just get to the site and check out the MPG/price of their cars.
OK, I found it after a while. […]
I had to stop all too briefly in London (no time for Bar Italia) on Friday and did my normal amble around Kensington.
The unexpected pleasant surprise was the artwork in the Gloucester Road Tube. Very japanese, modern, and really beautiful. If you’re in London, check it out.
http://ni.chol.as/2006/07/23/chiho-aoshima-at-gloucester-road-station/
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A vintage piece of TV from 1986 featuring Frank Zappa. Frank is sharp and spot on.
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The BBC has put the whole series of Top Gear online here for anyone who missed one. But be quick, it’s only until the 7th August.
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Good to see, it’s all up and running now (http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39161152,00.htm).
There is a little comment in there that doesn’t make sense. NHS Connecting for Health claim "To date no impact on the delivery of patient care has been reported". So, not having the computer system made no difference to delivery? So, why not just power it […]
I recently bought and fitted a new 60GB hard drive to my old Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. The old 10GB drive just didn’t cut it, space wise, and it was a slow unit.
So, I took the old drive out, but before reloading everything, I decided to try and put Ubuntu Linux on.
I’m not going to […]
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