Plonk

Well it seems to have been quite a while since I last posted and a lot has taken place — I’ve been on holiday to the Costa Brava which included a visit to the monastery at Montserrat (Photos coming soon!) and a 2½ hour flight delay on the way home (meaning we didn’t get to be till 3am!). This was unfortunately followed by a bout of diarrhoea :-(. I’ve had my first, albeit small, change committed to WordPress :-). The spam level in my inbox seems to have risen :-<.

Optimising Feed Reading Redux

In a comment to my earlier post “Optimising Feed Reading” Chris L points out Bloglines. I have previously steered clear of hosted feed readers because:

  1. I have somewhere that I can host for my self so don’t need to use a hosted service.
  2. I do not want to end up rely on something that becomes non free and I have to pay for to continue using.

However, I thought it was worth giving Bloglines a shot. What follows are my experiences gleaned from 15 minutes of use.
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Hospital Food

It seems to have been quite a long time since my last post on the 2nd of August and I don’t seem to have got a lot done! 🙁

It all started with a nasty cold that had me sleeping pretty much solidly for a couple of days and then after a few more days rest I thought I was ok and returned to work. However, a working day and a half later I started to feel quite bad again and ended up heading off to the Doctors for some antibiotics as I was coughing up nasty green phlegm.
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