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Posted in technology

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  • David
    Well, as you're well aware, Opera's been my browser of choice for a while now, and although I try others ...
  • mel
    You're welcome! Nah I'm just kidding, I'm not with Opera.
 

Mar 30
2010

Posted by richard

I really like the new design of Opera (10.51). It’s clean, and thank God for big mercies, no extra toolbars along the top polluting the design. On a side note, I hate how most software you install these days asks if you want to install Yahoo! toolbar or somesuch add-on, bloody annoying.

The main menu is hidden in a small ‘O’ button in the top left, the panels are hidden in a small button on the bottom left, leaving what is most important of all, a large viewing pane for what you actually use the browser for – to view websites! There are several other browsers that could take notice of this. Safari and IE to be exact, although Safari isn’t too bad.

So, I just wanted to say a big thank you to the Opera team, good job, you put your hearts into it, clearly.

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Posted in health

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  • richard
    Ajinkya, jquery, all of them.
  • Ajinkya
    really awsome theme. :) Are all this dynamic sliding this jQuery ? or java-scripts ?
 

Mar 11
2010

Posted by richard

Here is a tale of woe. I’ve told it before. I’m sure others have told it too.

I called last week to get an appointment at the doctor’s. This was at maybe 11am. I was told there were no appointments left, but I could pre-book in advance. I inquired about that and they then said there were no pre-bookable appointments left until three weeks in the future.

She told me to call in the morning when they open to get an appointment. Given that they open at 8am, and the average phone call might be 1 minute, and they have something like 4 or 5 doctors operating at any given time, that’s conservatively 30 appointments per hour with a 10 minute appointment each. If we assume three people answering the phones that’s 3 appointments they can make a minute, so by the time I call at 8:13am that’s 39 appointments they can make.

I was told at 8:13am that there was ONE appointment left for the entire day.

James Street medical practice is terrible. I’ve heard people all over Louth talk about this, always complaining about them. I’m seriously thinking about moving to the Newmarket practice. But I seriously wonder if they’re going to be any better? Is this what Labour has done to the NHS? Is this just incompetent management?

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