Month: July 2004
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Nose
I’ve been converting some presentations from a histopathologist into web-based self-directed learning packages recently. So far they’ve mostly been about skin and tumours – all interesting and some of it new to me – with lots of great pictures. Tumours. Neoplasias. Carcinomas. Adenocarcinomas. Lots of adenocarcinomas. I have sunscreen on my nose today cycling in…
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Doom III Hardware Specs
HardOCP have teamed up with id to deliver a hardware guide for the soon to be released Doom III. Link. Interesting stuff. It looks like low res may play fine on low spec (2 year old) machines.
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Medicine at Swansea
So how’s the preparation for the new postgraduate entry medicine course in Swansea going? Hmm, let’s see. The timetable is in place, and so are the huge number of lecturers from the Swansea NHS Trust and the University of Wales Swansea that will be teaching in the course of the first year. Lectures are written,…
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Bashing bridges
Always novel. My train was delayed getting into Bridgend (while I was on it) because a lorry drove into the bridge we were just about to cross. Different. We had to wait for engineers to check that the bridge wasn’t going to collapse beneath us. 45 minute delay. Not bad. With an iPod, iBook &…
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Star Wars III
Dunno if anyone cares, but the next Star Wars film just had its title announced: “Revenge of the Sith”. I’m sure there’s some history to that. Wasn’t the “Return of the Jedi” orignally likely to be the “Revenge of the Jedi”? I’m probably just spouting some playground bollocks I heard when I was 9 as…