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Monthly Archives December 2006

Oona King - again..

God, why do I have to keep seeing former East End MP Oona King on the TV? You may ask why am I so irritated. And to be frank it’s just plain dumb ego. I’d suggested way back in 1997 or 1998 I think it was to documentary producer Dev Varma (after spotting his name [...]

Posted 17 December 2006 † Stuart § History-Martin Luther King § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL FUND

Interested in the Soros backed biopharma’ fund, though I have no money after being fined

Posted 17 December 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Fare dodger

I got finded

Posted 16 December 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Conspiracies and coincidences

One of the papers had a headline today ‘Conspiracy or coincidence’ on the timing of the various news (Diana report; police quiz Blair; Saudi SFO investigation dropped). As if people have any clue!..

Posted 15 December 2006 † Stuart § Brazil § Coincidences § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

European Complex Systems Society

It turns out I’m a member of the  European Complex Systems Society and I didn’t even remember joining! So that’s what I was doing at the Health Development Agency!

Posted 14 December 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Good news for NHS PACS

I caught this intriguing PACS story for Medicexchange this morning:
“The UK’s National Health Service’s Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) announced today that its Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) has captured more than 100 million x-rays and scans, and has achieved 50% of its planned deployments with 65 systems installed across the NHS during the [...]

Posted 13 December 2006 † Stuart § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Turning the MLK Memorial Dream into Reality

Well after a pretty uneventful day I came back home and opened my emails and find the groundbreaking ceremony for the MLK National Memorial is tomorrow, 13 December.
Nice to see that GE and FedEx chipped in some cash recently to help it on its way. Not everyone know this, but FedEx are headquarted in [...]

Posted 12 December 2006 † Stuart § History-Martin Luther King § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

New head of the Federal Drug Administration

I notice on reading Medicexchange that the US Senate has approved Bush’s choice of a new head of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach. I trust he’ll prove a better candidate than “Lester Crawford, (who) also faced a tough confirmation battle last year only to abruptly resign. He pleaded guilty last month [...]

Posted 11 December 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Racism in schools report

I happened to catch sight of the Independent on Sunday’s front page story on the complex problem of racism in schools highlighted in Lord Adonis’s study. One paragraph caught my eye:
” The report recommends a campaign aimed at the entire school community to address the question of how black children [...]

Posted 10 December 2006 † Stuart § Coincidences § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

New free Kaka wallpaper

New free Kaka wallpaper taken from the fantastic Adidas football boot promotional site.
Download wallpaper here. You may have to play around with it to make it fit your screen size!

Posted 10 December 2006 † Stuart § 2006 World Cup § Brazil-Kaka § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °