Over the years, as well as paper, as those who know me will agree, I have used more or less every method there is of transferring files from computer to computer: floppy disks of all kinds, CD-ROMs, DVD, Zip disks, removable hard drives of all shapes and sizes.  I now find myself with a problem.…

How odd! Twice recently I have been accosted by complete strangers in cafés asking about my laptop. It’s a PowerBook G4 12″, no longer made, which suggests that Apple are missing something. I bought it for its compactness, the quality these strangers admire. I first had one for my job at Brighton and Sussex Medical…

Regular readers, if there are any, may have noticed some unpleasantness here in recent days. That’s not my blog reacting to the dire news of Boris Johnson’s election as mayor of London, and his proposals to introduce fagging, flogging and roasting new boys over a slow fire to the capital; rather, I have been trying…

Seeing it on UKWebFocus, I thought Blotter looked interesting. Here’s a graph for this site which will become more useful over time. And here’s one for the running blog

I found this through pattern recognition. The beast pictured below, Eustace, has twice caused considerable damage to my last PowerBook. If only there were a Mac version. PawSense "When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer.  This can happen whether…

I saw this on Phil Bradley’s blog and thought I’d try it. He is supposed to resemble Lou Reed, and I hope he will not be offended if I say that I find it hard to see a very close resemblance. But then it thinks I look like John Cleese, Alain Delon, George C. Marshall…

I’m used to countless out of office replies when I send messages to lists, but the accusation of racism is not something I’ve seen before. I’m tempted to sue. It seems distinctly defamatory. eManager Notification The following message was blocked because it contains sensitive content. Source mailbox: C.T.Roper@BSMS.AC.UK Rule/Policy: Racial Discrimination Action: Quarantine to C:\Program…

Aziz O, Panesar Sukhmeet S, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Paraskkevas Paraszkeve, Aziz Sheikh, Ara Darzi Handheld computers and the 21st century surgical team: a pilot study BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:28. The focus is more clinical than educational, but interesting nevertheless.

A beta of the  NCBI Search Toolbar is available for test.

I sometimes buy Adnam’s splendid wines, and since I know no one called Aaronovitch and I’m not a member of the AA, their telephone number occupies first position in my mobile’s contacts list. This is unfortunate for them, as I find that the mobile, imperfectly locked while in my pocket, has tried to send them…

This, via Wired News, is simply marvellous: Teabuddy.com

My wireless broadband router exploded over the Bank Holiday weekend. A new one is on its way, but may not arrive until the end of the week. Consequently  the world may have to live without my insights for a little while, or at least without as many of them as I usually manage to post