The Techno-Muppets Back
I want to thank you all for your messages of support, its been amazing and humbling, there's been hardly any readers lost and considering it was based on a local news site, it's still very much global, with readers from New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A, China, & Egypt to name a few, so thank-you and I hope you'll continue to enjoy it?
So, I've still managed to avoid owning a Smartphone,
It's not that I'm against technology, I'm against the behaviour it seems to produce in folk. I'm an old school kinda girl and I can't help but notice our streets and cafes are resembling the living dead, people of all ages with their heads down, no connection to life whatsoever, and with the latest Pokemon game taking the country by storm I predict it's about to get a whole lot worse...if that's possible?
I wonder if you knew that in most cases your Smartphone has more bacteria on it than a toilet handle, it would put you off using it?......Nope didn't think so.
It's got so bad there are even medical terms linked to conditions caused by Smartphones such as Ringxiety or phantom vibration syndrome, where a patient believes the phone keeps ringing as they feel a vibration through their body, when in fact its not.
When I heard the word Nomophobia, I thought I suffered with that....love of food? Nom! Nom! Nom! But no, apparently it's an irrational fear of being out of mobile phone reach.
But Lovem or hatem, Smartphones are here to stay, becoming even more advanced with an equally advanced price tab, Sirin Labs has recently launched its $14,000 (approx £10,000) android Smartphone called Solarin, which was available from Harrods from the end of June.
Me? I'm sticking to my £20 Alcatel, life in the real world.....oh, and good manners.
Do you remember the game "Connect" well, here's a version especially for couples, called "Foreplay Connect" with blue and pink discs & text such as "Spank Me" & "Nibble Ear" it sure ain't tiddlywinks. available from :
Getting Personal £12.99
If you like watching Movies and TV programmes on your Smartphone then check out this Smartphone Magnifying screen, no more straining your eyes, it's £17.99 from Gifts.Co.Uk
Imagine an organisation
responsible for funding medical research into a disease that afflicts twice as
many people as MS, or HIV/AIDS that decides to put its whole budget for
research in the disease into one trial – to the tune of £5-6 million.
Suppose that trial was fully
supported by a “large” charity.
Suppose the NHS decided to
use the results of the trial to base its policy for treatment.
Suppose a leading medical
research journal published the results to wide orchestrated media attention
................. Sound good?
Now imagine if that trial
used methodologies that were strongly rejected by the people for whom the
research was supposedly meant to benefit – i.e. patients.
Suppose the trial were funded
by the DWP – whose main aim seemed to be to reduce benefits for disabled
people.
Suppose that patients
themselves picked apart the results from the trial and showed it to be flawed.
Suppose the trial was
examined by leading scientific journalists and found to have more holes in it
than a colander.
Suppose eminent scientists
wrote a common letter to the publisher of the trial criticising the way it was
conducted and calling for data to be released for independent re-evaluation.
Suppose that the institute
holding the data refused to release this data, created by public funds, despite
the Information Commissioner’s Office ruling to do so – and then was reported
to have spent £250,000 in legal fees to avoid releasing the data.
And suppose that the original
funding body (itself funded by public funds) and the publisher of the trial
ignored requests to look into the trial,
to retract the trial or demand that the trial funding be returned due to
the way the trial was conducted.
Such is the world of ME –
where the sufferers become the “militants” for demanding basic human rights and
those who are instrumental in promoting a poorly conducted, useless trial are
made into victims.
The PACE Trial – a thing of
beauty – as one psychiatrist commented.
A thing of madness as
patients would agree.
Research as it should not be
performed – and totally unaccountable to the people it should benefit - a shambles for patients.
Luckily the end of the
madness? No! Now another round has begun this time on children!! One could not
make this up!!
More here http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-397/
The incident was written up in the log book, and the term spread through the computer industry, but the term "Bug" was actually used much earlier and first sited in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1889 in the line "Mr Edison I was informed, had been up two previous nights discovering a bug in his phonograph"
Although a bug was/is an insect, It gave the impression that in engineering terms "Bug" was an imaginary thing, an expression for solving a difficult problem.
If you like walking for health but don't fancy doing it alone, then head down to Cassiobury Park Watford, meeting by The Cha Cafe by the tennis courts every Wednesday at 10.30am til 11.30am for a moderate three mile walk, led by volunteers. Or if you live somewhere else in the country or world, why not start up a local group yourself?
And finally, before I head off for some breakfast, do you think you could show some love and support by voting for Ryan Prior and his own story and documentary on ME? It's literally one Little click, no signing up or other info. And you can vote once every day.
Whatever your doing this Weekend
Make it a good one.
Stay Blessed, Back Before Elvis
Or 29th July to be precise X
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