The increased dosage of my thyroxine seems to have suddenly kicked in. This morning I woke up without a headache for the first time in weeks; I felt reasonably refreshed, too, in spite of only having slept for about 6 hours. (I’d stayed up late to watch The Sopranos; I don’t get many chances to […]
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Had a blood test on Monday. Was rather surprised to get a phone call from my doctor this morning, as I’d been told the result wouldn’t be in until the end of this week. However, it wasn’t anything too alarming. My thyroxine levels are seriously low (which I’d already already guessed, from my continual tiredness […]
“Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children […]
An excellent and informative interview with Amanda Baggs, who is autistic, talking about how autistics see the world: Amanda Baggs on CNN. Q: What do you think it will take for our society to accept autistic people as functional? Yolanda Welch, Shreveport, Louisiana BAGGS: I have a poster on my wall that says “Are you […]
The government is spending squillions of money on our health service, yet hospitals and medical services don’t seem to be vastly improving. At least one NHS doctor is also wondering Where Does All The Money go?: My attention has today been drawn to the existence of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. May I […]
I’ve only ever deleted three or four posts in the whole six or seven years I’ve been blogging. I’m very reluctant to remove anything from here. Anyhow, I’ve just deleted the previous post, if you caught it and wondered. It was too personal, too angry. I was angry, angry, angry. I had a long walk […]
Finally got round to updating this blog to the very latest release of WordPress. It’s something I’ve been putting off forever, because my experience with upgrading is that it is horribly slow and liable to go horribly wrong. For this reason, I am not looking forward to upgrading to XP; backing up everything beforehand will […]
Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed faith school scheme on Radio 2. Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the ‘Send Your Kid to a Faith School’ law. The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn’t tell anybody about it. Therefore at the time of […]
…or at least a million of them. For the last couple of weeks, emails identical to, or very similar to, this one have been flooding emails lists and forums: Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2. Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the […]
…that Cabinet Ministers, before being appointed, should have to pass a test demonstrating some basic knowledge of how this whole internet thingie actually works. We might then be spared the pathetic sight of a Home Secretary announcing that he has a surefire method of keeping track of the online activities of paedophiles. It would appear […]