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Treading Warily

I woke up this morning to find nine emails relating to comments requiring approval on my healthcare post from yesterday.
“Yikes”, I thought, I’ve woken a sleeping monster and a screaming mob are baying at my blog demanding my head for comparing the UK system favourably with the US.  Given the attitude of some of the [...]

Let’s Get This Show (Back) On The Road

Lord it’s been a while.  Sorry.
No particularly good excuses either I’m afraid, just a lot of stuff going on to distract me and not a lot of it the kind of thing I can talk about here.  But enough’s enough.  Back to nonsense and flim-flammery (another good name for a blog).
Last time I wrote I [...]

A Protracted Silence …

… that I wish I could say had been occasioned by excitements and dramas keeping me otherwise occupied, but the reality is that it’s mostly been pretty ordinary with a certain amount of absolutely knackering travel thrown in, and I really have no excuse.
Will try harder.

A Little Bit Of Math

Okay, so the evil comment spammers have moved in with a vengeance now that they’ve discovered this here blog (over 500 spam comments in the last two days).
So I’ve implemented a small plugin on the comment form that requires the commenter to answer a small and very simple maths question before the comment can be [...]

Not A Way Of Life

On the off-chance anyone’s been looking, and in a very good piece of timing, my old blog’s domain registration has expired and the site’s not available at the moment.  It’s entirely my own fault - I lost track of the re-registration date, and the contact email address on it was one I don’t use any [...]

Settling In

Just playing around with the look of this template - it’s based on the WordPress template Bright Blue Sky, but I’m tweaking some elements, so expect a little variability around the place for a little while.

Brave New World

So here I am starting out in a new location in the real world and also making the move to a new virtual home for the time I’m here.
Points of reference:
My old (temporarily abandoned) blog
The ‘rules’ for this place