Developing your blog writing style…

This started life as a comment on the Teck Line blog, about developing one’s own writing style when blogging, but it got out of hand and, like Topsy, just growed, so I copied it over to Word, just using what’s now the sixth para as my comment, as it relates to something another commenter said, [...]

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Writing your WordPress blog posts in Word…

The correct way to use Word to write your WordPress blogs, and how to transfer them to WordPress. Trust me, this is NOT a problem.

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90 on a mobility scooter…

Ninety-year-old Stanley Murphy, of Sussex, took to the A27 road in his Class 3 mobility scooter, to the consternation of many, including Mr. Murphy, who hadn’t intended to be there and had taken a wrong turn (which rather calls into question whether he should be out on his own – it could easily have been [...]

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Falling literacy standards online…

Can’t write? Don’t write…
I’ve complained here,  previously, about the piss-poor standard of English usage at the online version of the Guardian (which, for all I know, extends into the printed version too, but I’m not paying 90p a day to find out). This article, though, is

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Drugs are bad for you – but not how you might think…

A 14-year-old rugby player has died after taking an OTC acne remedy – read the report here.
Doctors believe that his death may have been caused by an ingredient of the tablets, possibly the colouring – I can’t say I’m surprised.
The first time I was prescribed the antibiotic Distaclor MR

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Amazon’s Kindle – what’s the point…

It’s getting hard to avoid reviews of Amazon’s Kindle, their updated electronic book thingy. Utterly pointless, though, as there’s no indication when it will be available here in the UK – It’s like a yachting magazine reviewing the QE2.
No idea what

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Medical research can damage your health…

…especially the way it’s reported in newspapers.
Psychologists find gene that helps you look on the bright side of life.
Those unfortunate enough to lack the ‘brightside gene’ are more likely to suffer from mental health problems such as depression
That’s a headline from today’s online Guardian and probably the paper version, too, followed by an utterly useless [...]

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Lung function monitoring in COPD…

If you have COPD, it’s worth monitoring your lung function daily, at home, rather than relying on an annual assessment by a practise nurse at your GP’s surgery.
A couple of years ago, I bought a digital peak flow meter as, unlike manual ones, they keep an internal record (a PFM, by the way, measures how [...]

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Binyam Mohamed – what is the truth?

Binyam Mohamed has been returned, amid great fanfare, to Britain from Guantanamo Bay. Why? He doesn’t belong here at all.
As David Aaronovitch says in the Times, today, “Mr Mohamed’s story is that, as a young Ethiopian denied asylum in Britain but permitted to remain, he led an unsatisfactory life and became a drug addict. In [...]

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Getting the best from Google is up to you…

As regular readers will know, in my blog’s statistics is a section listing a selection of search engine terms that have brought people to my blog. Sometimes, what the person is looking for isn’t there, so that provides me with subjects for posts. All too often, though, I see a search term that is so [...]

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