Afghan keyboard layouts for Windows XP, Vista, etc.
Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader wrote up a document back in 2003, describing the keyboard layouts that they proposed for Afghanistan under the aegis of the UN. In May this year, Michael Kaplan...
View ArticleEnkephalitis … Перельман is my homeboy … Obstipation
Minor language detail that I haven’t seen documented elsewhere, so I may as well write it up here. In English, in RCSI and as far as I can tell in the other medical schools in Ireland, the Greek root...
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Lázsló Almásy describes Darb el Arbeʿin, the slave caravan route
A few paragraphs from László Almásy’s book „Schwimmer in der Wüste“, from the description of the Darb el Arbeʿin درب الاربعون , the historical caravan route from the Sudan to the Nile valley:„Die im...
View ArticleForcing Amazon RDS databases to non-UTC server timezone
Amazon Relational Database System (RDS) is a fine service, allowing you to move MySQL and Oracle databases to the care of a company that administers them and backs them up competently and in huge...
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Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma
I ordered Ben Goldacre’s new book, Bad Pharma, and noticed the braille on the cover. Here it is (possibly upside-down, but I don’t think so): ⠄⠒⠎⠥⠍⠑ ⠄⠊⠍⠍⠇⠽ I’m disappointed! The good doctor requested...
View ArticleAfghan keyboard layouts for Windows XP, Vista, etc.
Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader wrote up a document back in 2003, describing the keyboard layouts that they proposed for Afghanistan under the aegis of the UN. In May this year, Michael Kaplan...
View ArticleEnkephalitis … Перельман is my homeboy … Obstipation
Minor language detail that I haven’t seen documented elsewhere, so I may as well write it up here. In English, in RCSI and as far as I can tell in the other medical schools in Ireland, the Greek root...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lázsló Almásy describes Darb el Arbeʿin, the slave caravan route
A few paragraphs from László Almásy’s book „Schwimmer in der Wüste“, from the description of the Darb el Arbeʿin درب الاربعون , the historical caravan route from the Sudan to the Nile valley:„Die im...
View ArticleForcing Amazon RDS databases to non-UTC server timezone
Amazon Relational Database System (RDS) is a fine service, allowing you to move MySQL and Oracle databases to the care of a company that administers them and backs them up competently and in huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma
I ordered Ben Goldacre’s new book, Bad Pharma, and noticed the braille on the cover. Here it is (possibly upside-down, but I don’t think so): ⠄⠒⠎⠥⠍⠑ ⠄⠊⠍⠍⠇⠽ I’m disappointed! The good doctor requested...
View ArticleEnkephalitis … Перельман is my homeboy … Obstipation
Minor language detail that I haven’t seen documented elsewhere, so I may as well write it up here. In English, in RCSI and as far as I can tell in the other medical schools in Ireland, the Greek root...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lázsló Almásy describes Darb el Arbeʿin, the slave caravan route
A few paragraphs from László Almásy’s book „Schwimmer in der Wüste“, from the description of the Darb el Arbeʿin درب الاربعون , the historical caravan route from the Sudan to the Nile valley:„Die im...
View ArticleForcing Amazon RDS databases to non-UTC server timezone
Amazon Relational Database System (RDS) is a fine service, allowing you to move MySQL and Oracle databases to the care of a company that administers them and backs them up competently and in huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma
I ordered Ben Goldacre’s new book, Bad Pharma, and noticed the braille on the cover. Here it is (possibly upside-down, but I don’t think so): ⠄⠒⠎⠥⠍⠑ ⠄⠊⠍⠍⠇⠽ I’m disappointed! The good doctor requested...
View ArticleVTE Dublin 2017, and its Ultrasound Workshop.
I want to make a shout-out Cian McDermott, Andy Neill and everyone else involved in organising and running the Ultrasound Workshop at the VTE Dublin conference. Excellent sessions, great instructors,...
View ArticleFeverPAIN.
At the beginning of 2018, Public Health England published a clinical decision rule for doctors managing sore throat, advising: ‘[Use] of the FeverPAIN or Centor clinical prediction score to determine...
View ArticleBeal.
Word of the day: to beal; to suppurate, to gather, to weep pus. Obsolete in standard English. The OED describes that it is still in use in Scotland, and I can report today that it is used in the area...
View ArticleKontrollieren, contrôler.
Back at the turn of this decade, when I was an enthusiastic medical student in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, I had a group tutorial with Dr Eamon Leen, an excellent lecturer and the chief...
View ArticleObstetrics and gynaecology and politics of the sexes.
Professor Chris Fitzpatrick of the Coombe (one of the major Dublin maternity hospitals) just had a piece published by the Irish Times on the energetic condemnation of men involved in the CervicalCheck...
View ArticleThran.
Thran /θræn/ (th of thin, rest of the word as in ‘ran’) is a word used in this part of the world to mean “stubborn, obstinate.” This little vignette on Reddit, about the roads I drive to do my grocery...
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