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Comment on Summary Care Record Opt Out Now by Pippa Zoe

Pippa Zoe — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:09:04 +0000

Thanks for the warning!

Comment on Summary Care Record Opt Out Now by graham

graham — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:35:58 +0000

Ah, but it not that there will be a database, it is what will be on it and who will have access to it. It will be my full life-long health and medical history. The data will be available, without my consent and in an identifiable way, to thousands of non-clinical health administrators under what is known as “Secondary Use Services”.

Comment on Summary Care Record Opt Out Now by Timothy Barton

Timothy Barton — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:35:35 +0000

I have to say I was surprised to find out, when reading the post, that no central database exists. I always assumed that basic information would be held on a central database, so that if I needed urgent treatment while in, say, Exeter, they’d have access to important medical information.

I find it interesting that you express your grave concern about ID cards, then you say that Britain has “become one of the most bugged, surveyed and monitored countries on Earth”. If ID cards are the epitome of government control, then surely the UK is one of the least controlled countries in Western Europe, since all Britain’s neighbours, except Ireland, have them. My friends are amazed when I tell them that ID cards don’t exist in the UK. “How do you identify yourselves?”, they ask.

Comment on Yummy by graham

graham — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:16:37 +0000

Wow Tim, 50 year old chicken. We were so hard up when we got married that we virtually lived on the remains of the wedding cake. That chicken would have gone.

Imagine humping it about over the years though. It is the keeping of it that seems odd to me rather than the eating of it.

Comment on Yummy by Graham's daughter

Graham's daughter — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:05:58 +0000

I’ve still not recovered from the black baked beans that I had for lunch at your house. Out of date foodstuffs are always a hazard when you have a Dad that actively seeks out tins that have been discounted because they are past their date, have lost their original labels and are from the ‘U.S.S.R’.

John - get glasses. How did you miss that?

Comment on Yummy by Timothy Barton

Timothy Barton — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:37:34 +0000

Did you hear this story a few years ago?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/203/203568_couple_celebrate_with_50yearold_chicken.html

Comment on What Am I Giving Up For lent? by John

John — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:55:16 +0000

I think Lent is just seen by many non Christians as another confusing and pointless religious period that they don’t understand. Therefore I am glad to be part of a tradition that does not insist on its observance.

Comment on Yummy by John

John — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:49:03 +0000

Reminds me of the time I took the last sip of a cup of tea. It felt like there was a little clump of UHT milk in the bottom, I rolled it around my mouth with my tongue trying to break it up. When it didn’t, I spat it out to find that it was a fly…..yum….

Comment on N97 Mini Out of the Box by graham

graham — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:22:24 +0000

Glissando? I’ve just had to look that up. I’ve just tried it and it works. It would not have occurred to me to do it that way as I can type. What a discovery - qwertyuiop, whoops went too far.

Comment on N97 Mini Out of the Box by Timothy Barton

Timothy Barton — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:48:33 +0000

But surely there’s no excuse with qwerty! It’s a simple glissando along the top row (unless you’re on a French azerty or a German qwertz keyboard).