Chemotherapy
Posted 2 days, 7 hours ago on March 4, 2007 by yerma
Just Stuff, News
First post in a while but thought it would be a good time to get back online. About 6 weeks ago I heard that my mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram had shown up some strangeness. A little while later and we found out that she would require a full mastectomy which would hopefully catch the problems that were there, unfortunately after 3 weeks without being able to drive and a fair bit of soreness we were told that she would actually require chemotherapy followed by a course of radiotherapy. Obviously this is a bit of a blow for not just her but for the rest of our family as well - I hope that she always looks as good and as healthy as when we spent the week together a few weeks ago but I know that the next 4-6 months are going to be hard for her and for all of us. All we can do is to be there for her and make sure that she has everything she needs to feel as comfortable as possible. Have been reading a lot of stuff on Cancer Help and found it to be a great resource for both reassurance and practical information. The durgs she will be on are:
E-CMF x4 : 2 weekly
Epirubicin x 4 : 2 weekly
CMF x 4 : 4 weekly day 1 and day 8
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The World of Karl Pilkington
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago on April 5, 2006 by yerma
News
Can't wait for this to come out :)
This is a collection of the best moments from the "Ricky Gervais Show" podcasts - the world's number one podcast - with additional musings and original drawings by Karl Pilkington, the show's unlikely star. Karl Pilkington, the Confutian like savant of the "Ricky Gervais Podcast" show, has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. As a kid, growing up in Manchester, he regularly missed school to accompany his parents on caravanning holidays and left without collecting his exam results: his family weaned him well. His father once crashed a train into Manchester Central Station, his mother shaved one of their cats after it kept being sick and his uncle slept in a dinghy instead of a bed - genes, some acolytes say, which have contributed to his cryptic views on life. Pilkington's is a brilliant mind, locked inside a perfectly round head, and uncluttered by the unhelpful constraints of logic or common sense; factors that have lead him to such dazzling insights as 'you never see old men eating Twix bars' or that the "Diary" of Anne Frank was 'an Adrian Mole sort of thing'. In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of "The Office" and "Extras", outwitting even these comedy Goliaths with his take on such contentious issues as charity, the lack of Chinese homeless people, re-incarnation, the rights of monkeys and favourite superpowers. Featuring Karl's original illustrations, imaginative scribblings, full colour pictures sent in by fans, the best conversations of the first 12 podcasts, and to be published alongside the second series of the internationally acclaimed and Guinness Record-winning "Ricky Gervais Podcast Show" (downloaded over 4,000,000 times - the most popoular podcast ever), this is a unique trip into the world of one of our most innovative thinkers, visionaries and prophets, or as Gervais and Merchant know him, 'the funniest man alive in Britain today'.
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Spam
Posted 6 days, 20 hours ago on March 28, 2006 by yerma
News
I have had to disable trackbacks on the blog due to the amount of spam that has been coming in from xxx sites. I have just simply removed the trackback.php file from the folder to ensure none can take place, it's a great shame as trackback is such a useful system. Looks like I'm not alone with this problem. I have allowed comments on the site now but only for one week and always requiring approval from the admin.
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Chef dies in South Park
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago on March 24, 2006 by yerma
News
So chef is leaving south Park :( - this clip shows his demise which is a great shame.
Their reply to the "church" is brilliant....
So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.
"Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
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Reply from my MP
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago on March 23, 2006 by yerma
News
A few weeks ago I posted about conditions in Guantanamo Bay and used the great service at writetothem.com to write to my MP. I was very pleased yesterday to recieve a reply from her stating that she had already signed an early day motion calling for this. I can only hope that the Government listen to the call from a significant number of MP's and that this outrage can be stopped. I was advised that I will be notified when Jack Straw responds.
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Notes from Richard Stallman's speech
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago on March 17, 2006 by yerma
News
Below are the notes I made while listening to Richard Stallman's speech at the Belfoss event yesterday - some may seem a bit garbled but didn't get around to writing them up properly.
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Launched gnu movement in 1983
Software that respects the users freedom, an ethical issue.
4 freedoms(starting at 0)
Damm hippy, how bout real life?
Don't use proprietary software.
Don't let people confuse sharing with attacking ships.
Windows XP searches own files for a word, sends a request to Microsoft.
List of software installed is being sent to Ms whenever you do an update.
Tivo contains small linux and spies on a user.
Interbase had a back door, was found when software was liberated.
Windows XP sends ID of the user and therefore provides a backdoor.
Are terrorists working on our source code? Mental
Choice between propriety software is still a monopoly.
He's got no shoes on!!!!
Linus doesn't agree with free software movement ideals.
You can't be neutral on freedom, we need to be more aware than that!
Anti-terrorist law stuff, he's a mental!!!!!
The ideals are good but maybe he's not the right person to spin it to the education and government people in the building.
Purely practical advantages are not the way forward, we should be evangelising about the freedoms.
www.gnu.org/licenses - nearly all licenses are free but the list will help.
Audio-video.gnu.org for richard's thoughts.
Value the freedoms of free software, enemies are movie companies, Microsoft, music companies etc.
Free software to play a DVD is illegal in USA and most of Europe.
Mega corporations want to impose patents in Europe as they have done in Usa.
Must write to our euro mp about software patents.
More of a political lecture than about FOSS in business.
Trusted computing/treacherous computing - IBM, Intel, apple, amd, Intel all participating. That's all of them!!! Who else is there?
Talking about how schools should teach free software and not the proprietary stuff.
Gplv3.fsf.org for new gpl
www.gnu.org/help - details about how to help
Vi vi vi is the editor of the beast.
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Google at belfoss
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago on March 17, 2006 by yerma
News
Zaheda Borat was the speaker from google and despite not being able to walk around the stage as she obviously wanted to, it was a very interesting discussion. The main basis of the discussion was about how a megacorporation such as google uses the power of FOSS software to provide the services it does. The google infrastructure is all built on FOSS - GNU/Linux, apache, tomcat etc, the main reasons she gave for using FOSS were:
- Independence from software vendor
- The posssibility of working on something out of the ordinary without giving your secrets back to the software vendor.
Useful site was Google Code.
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Bruce Perens at belfoss
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago on March 17, 2006 by yerma
News
Unfortunately I missed most of Bruce Perens speech due to being held up at work but the parts I did see were very interesting. There was a question asked about how we can help the cause of stopping software patents, the main answers he gave were:
[list]
Speak out and explain your ideas
Find the technical editors at local magazines/newspapers and post views/thoughts/editorials and stories to them.
Contact your mp and explain the issues behind it to ensure that they are actually aware. Microsoft and other organisations will be paying people to do this so we must as well.
Get everyone running FOSS software such as firefox and Open office.org
He also raised a very interesting point that apparently Microsoft were the sponsors of the Irish EU presidency - more to follow on this.
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belfoss
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago on March 16, 2006 by yerma
News
Was at the belfoss event today at the spires centre in Belfast. There were some great speakers today and some more strange ones - I will post a full review soon but would like to just repeat the words of one speaker:
vi vi vi is the editor of the beast.....
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Google Personalized Search strangeness
Posted 3 years, 1 month ago on March 3, 2006 by yerma
News
Have been using Google Personalized homepage for a while now and I have started to notice that the RSS feeds are no longer available at startup. It only appears to be in the last few days that the below has started to happen. Is it due to google not having my rss feeds pre-cached because of so many requests?(I can't imagine that) or is it a change to something else?
This img shows what I am getting
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