Finding the chase and cutting to it

NB this is not teaching you what pumping is and expects you to be familiar with some of the terms.  It is a breakdown of the operational and design features of some of the insulin pumps on the market with an in depth view on the Accu-chek DTron, Early Medtronic Paradigm and Animas Vibe pumps. […]

Of course, the BBC must have had a slow news day yesterday as they finally broadcast the summary from the report studying the latest state of the ozone layer. As I hit my teens, research had shown that not only was the ozone layer thinning but it was most likely caused by the use of […]

It’s been a busy few weeks and this is the first chance I have had to sit still at the computer and write something which is, hopefully, interesting.  This is one of two blogs looking at things you can do to improve your house. I am a huge fan of Grand Designs.  There are some […]

There are many small jobs there are to do on a vehicle, nothing separates cars and motorbikes like replacing the “tax disc”. Actually, the circular piece of paper that demonstrates that you have paid your vehicle excise duty not the vehicle tax, although, confusingly, the portal for paying the duty is called the tax disc site. […]

The outlook is not good. In 1993, on the back of a piece of paper I drew what I thought a pump should look like: a motor, a casing and a pen cartridge, some tubing and the cannula.  In 2002, I got my first pump and it looked like that, albeit with a 3ml cartridge […]

We have a family motto: my word is my bond. Mostly ,I think because none of us disrespects anyone enough to lie: treat others as you would have them treat you. But maybe it gives you unrealistic expectations. Maybe others do not appreciate when they lie. I recently had a case where I took someone […]

I was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1973. The year Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I watched the news with my parents not really understanding why it was such a big deal. Mrs Thatcher was not only a grammar school kid, she was a woman. If we look at the prime ministers of the past […]

I was asked this on Christmas day, much to my amusement. Since 1996 I haven’t used any kind of editor outside of a classroom (you know, where the tutors are insisting you don’t use notepad (actually I prefer Vi as the text editor of my choice and have ported this to most of my computers)). […]

From quite early, you are asked what you want to be when you grow up.  I knew I’d go to university from when I was very small but as I grew up that changed from being a medical doctor to a masters in business administration to something with maths and computers. I basically didn’t know […]

Two and a half years ago I took a snap shot of how our surfing habits had changed in the first two years of the recession. Well. news hit two months ago of Yahoo losing the third spot – and obviously that was to youTube – Japanese Yahoo has also disappeared along with MSN. But […]