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BLOOD-STAINED cupboards, dirty bathrooms and neglected patients are just some of the things health watchdog Mary Wilson found on a trip to Great Western Hospital.
The damning report was made public at Swindon’s Patient and Public Involvement Forum at Gorse Hill community centre.
Chairwoman Mary Wilson listed the catalogue of claims - which she called […]
I generally avoid Today, preferring the genteel humour of Terry Wogan on radio 2, but sometimes, when there’s some pop country comes on, I get bored and start surfing around the stations, frequently ending up at Radio 4’s Today programme.
Despite elements of the press marketing him as a welsh terrier, John Humphreys is nothing […]
Some time ago, Amazon created a tool called the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The idea of this was to harness the things that people were good at, but computers can’t. It’s a little like that Google image game.
Amazon currently have an Amazon Mechanical Turk project running for Finding Steve Fossett, by looking at small sections of […]
I note that Ridley Scott has a really, truly, honestly, last and final, definitive director’s cut of Blade Runner called The Final Cut. It’s easy to see how films with the impact of Blade Runner, Amadeus or Apocalypse Now get this treatment, because they have a huge geek following that will buy them up.
But Shanghai […]
Reading the latest idea from the Conservative Party, I went looking for a humourous, pithy or satirical quote by a great philosopher that I could use.
In it’s absence, I’ll write it in my own direct way: Established Wealth Condemns Materialism.
The report by the Quality of Life policy group, headed by John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith, […]
I rather like iPods. I don’t own one, but an old Creative thing that I picked up on the cheap, which is very serviceable (particularly as it uses a standard laptop hard drive).
There’s plenty of news around about the new ones with bigger storage, smoother design and all that. What isn’t being reported, and which […]
I found that the easiest way to do video was to avoid the plugins (which gave me trouble) and simply switch off the visual editor when creating a post.
As this video explains:-
Another extension in use on the site is the Google Sitemaps Generator.
If you’re not aware of sitemaps for your site, they’re a good thing to have. In simple terms, they help search engines to learn more about your content, like what’s important, how often a page changes, and when it was last updated. I’ve noticed […]
One of the problems with converting to Wordpress is that my old URLs stopped working. I thought maybe I’d get around to hacking around with regular expressions, but there’s a problem with the format of posts changing over time, and I’m only an orange belt regex ninja.
With the help of Google, I came across a […]
Dr Ben Goldacre exposes the whole sciency nonsense.
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