Nov
19
2009
You’ve heard the quote “money is the root of all evil”? Actually, it’s a misquote but that’s another tale. It appears that NICE have rejected the use of Nexavar, on cost grounds, for patients suffering from liver cancer. It’s already been rejected by Scotland (NICE only covers England and Wales). This type of problem is [...]
Tags: money, nexavar, NICE, poverty, root of all evil, starvation
Oct
13
2009
It’s good to keep in touch and there are numerous so-called social networking sites on the Internet nowadays. You’ve probably heard of Facebook. I’m on one called LinkedIn which is aimed at networking with a view to getting project work, a new job and so forth. Yesterday, David Page popped up after a long absence, [...]
Tags: dave page, david page, david page photography
Jul
25
2009
Seeing as the Government’s new web-site was creaking under the strain of 2600 hits per second at its inauguration we have decided to help out where we can. Well, with 100,000 new cases last week what else can we do? Now, about those 100,000 new cases, these are confirmed. For all we know there could [...]
Tags: swine flu advice
Jun
25
2009
How can a boss go undercover (Undercover Boss, Channel 4) in his or her own Company? Are they so unrecognisable that not a single employee would know who they were? If that’s the case then there’s the problem…
Tags: thought for the day
Apr
27
2009
After another weekend of property development it’s back to moving the office – we only have five days to go… Let’s just clear up one thing about the weekend property development stuff, it’s not glamorous like on the telly! I come back home on Sunday night with a hairstyle that looks like a whole jar [...]
Tags: property development
Apr
24
2009
No, nothing to do with white vans and everything to do with moving web sites… It’s mid-morning Friday and I’ve moved the easy sites to a server I’ve set up at my house now it’s time for the hard ones. What’s a hard one? It’s one that has a database back-end that stores all the [...]
Tags: in transit
Apr
23
2009
It’s Thursday and I’ve hit the skip so many times I could be up for my own parking place Selling on Ebay is going well too although I can’t see how some people make any money. For example, I have trade cards and accounts with a range of distributors and I can’t buy a lot [...]
Tags: private parking
Apr
23
2009
We need to find somewhere else to put this site. All the servers are at the office of course and there’s not going to be an office shortly so where oh where can we move to? Given the object of the exercise is to reduce costs coughing up for an Internet host at whatever per [...]
Tags: where oh where
Apr
18
2009
It’s Saturday and I’m off to do some property development for the weekend. I won’t bore you with the details but suffice to say it’s a pretty big job and first priority is to finish the stairs not least so we don’t all break our necks getting up and down The second attempt at constructing [...]
Tags: property development
Apr
01
2009
Maybe this is a young thing and us ‘oldies’ just don’t get it but it sounds like a stupid name to me. What’s it got to do with cards? And, why is the advert so crap? I asked some younger people and they didn’t get it either. Sorry people, should have gone to Specsavers!
Tags: moonpig, specsavers