Goodbye Hewlett Packard I've has a HP laser printer for a year or so. It's worked fine. It's better than the inkjet it replaced. Yet recently HP decided that it's absolutely essential I
New Conservative Candidate = Old Conservative MP Sadly, despite the appaling perfomance of Mims Davies (who has now run away from Eastleigh to inflict herself on the unfortunate mid Sussex constituency), we have been landed with a
Can my MP read? I recently wrote to Mims Davis, my Member of Parliament. Dear Mims, Today the court of session in Scotland found that "that Mr Johnson was motivated by the "
Are you looking for a new Summer House, or other wooden garden building? If so, my advice is not to go within miles of Hampshire Summer Houses. After many months I have finally received confirmation from my credit card company that they have
Acronyms I've been involved with developing several studies recently, and the question always arises... What are we going to call it?Not the full title, but the snappy acronym which all
Drobo failing to mount a partition I use a Drobo as a source for a Plex server. Having my children get video from Plex is much neater than having them ransack a set of DVDs. The
Apple Watch 3 Apple Products In the past month I've bought three Apple products. I'm going to keep two of them Apple Watch This is a series 3 Apple Watch. It's much like the Series
publication Uploaded The follow up from the previous post is 8 days. Then a further 4 days to appear on the website once the production system said published. The final paper is
publication Upload for online first Odd phrase is't it? I've been looking at it for about a week now at the BMJ Open submission portal. According to the FAQ, this is one of the production
sous vide Nomiku v Anova For a couple of years I've had a Nomiku, which I use for sous vide cooking. I've produced chocolate, steak, short ribs - even rib roasts. It's great. Sous Vide
photography Burning Wire Wool For Christmas 2015 I was given a Photography Experience Day, which I finally got around to using in December 2016! The idea is simple. Stuff some wire wool in a
Sous Vide Chocolate Tempering I bit more on chocolate tempering using the Nomiku - as it's the end of the Christmas term and the children's teachers need chocolate houses! Vacuum pack the chocolate. Up to 1kg in a pack seems to work well. Drop in a water bath
Daylight: Twilight and Shadows This is a rewrite of Daylight, in Swift. The latest update is available for iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, and now Apple TV - all with one purchase. If you
sous vide Sous Vide at Home Due to a couple of successful Kickstarter campaigns I find myself with two kitchen gadgets which offer to provide a temperature controller waterbath for sous vide cookery. The Nomiku. The Codlo. They each take a different approach to the challenge of providing a constant
Upgrading to Yosemite On both my Macs, after upgrading to Yosemite I've had a problem with the Launchbar icon in the dock showing an empty progress bar, which doesn't show any progress. defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock fixes it.
Why do I say "yes" to too many things? I've seen this chart, which seems to explain why. But unfortunately I've lost the original reference - I'd be happy to be pointed at it. In essence, there's an expectation
Apple Watch and Swift It seems to me pretty likely that 3rd party programming for the Apple Watch is only likely to be supported in Swift. Why? It's a chance for Apple to start
cocoa McIcon While writing ParaDocs I spend a lot of time working on the icons... particularly the app icon the the document icon. This involves editing images in multiple sizes and making sure they end up in the right place in Xcode. It's tedious. In the
cocoa ParaDocs I like to try to put some sort of help system in my apps - either using the default Mac help menu, or rolling my own for iOS apps. Producing the content for either approach usually involved writing lots of html, manually assigning links,
NIHR Paediatric Orthopaedic Stakeholder Workshop One of my interests is the delivery of research to improve surgical practice. This partly manifests in my involvement in the HipOP trial (and the resulting poster) and the ETTAA cohort study. Last Friday I (along with other NETSCC staff) facilitated a workshop on
Download WWDC 2014 Videos I found this bash script for downloading all the WWDC 2014 videos in HD. curl https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/ \ | grep -iIoh 'http.*._hd_.*dl=1">HD' \ | sed -e 's/\?dl=1">HD//g' \ | xargs -n1 curl --remote-name
Society for Clinical Trials Meeting, Philadelphia, May 2014 This year I took a poster to the Society for Clinical Trials meeting in Philadelphia. The Society for Clinical Trials is an international organisation dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge about the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trial methodologies - rather
GlobalView Here's a little something I've been working on. GlobalView is a geographical twitter client for iOS (both iPad and iPhone) - rather than ordering tweets by the time they were tweeted, they are positioned on a map which can be zoomed or rotated to
chocolate Chocolate Tempering with a Nomiku I used my new Nomiku to temper some dark chocolate for an easter egg. Melted at 47°C, held for 10 minutes. Changed the water, set to 27°C, held for 10 minutes. Warmed the water to 34°C, held for 5 minutes, then
Screening Woes Screening is difficult. Even NHS hospitals get it wrong Sixty-seven year old Vincent O'Dea took up a 'MOT Health Check' at his GPs, which showed a slightly raised PSA. As a result of this he's now had 37 sessions of radiotherapy - with all
