Good Emergency Medicine site based ‘down under’
One recent article managed to trigger a GMC educational visit to our Department/Trainees 🙁
Useful learning point is how your Hospital needs to adapt to managing staff using social media
Christmas Day wine
I’m trying to choose my wine for Christmas Day. So far I have almost decided on a red from Langmiel winery in Oz and a safe sauv blanc from Marlborough in NZ – Fairhall Cliffs
Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing #2
Well, that fix didn’t last long. I’m utterly perplexed by this. I’ve reset windows firewall rules on the remote pc which worked. For a while. The workgroup vanished again from my main rig. 🙁 . I’ve looked more closely at my main rig and have uninstalled Comodo firewall and gone back to using Windows firewall again. This seems to have cured things. For the moment anyway.
Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing
I have had issues with a Win7 homegroup vanishing (and therefore its shared libraries) from the homegroup list on my main PC. I can still browse shares and remote desktop into this other PC but can’t see it’s Homegroup. Weird thing is if I am sitting at this other PC i can see ALL the other Homegroup members with no issues. After much searching this seems to have solved the issue after i ran it on the remote PC
Sometimes the HomeGroup listening service is disabled.
Click on Start, and search “Administrative”
Click on “Administrative Tools”
Click on “Services”
Scroll down the list until you see “HomeGroup Listener”
If it is not started, right click on it and hit “Start”. If it is started, right click on it and hit “Restart”
Below it is “HomeGroup provider”
Do the same for that.
Scroll down until you see “Peer Networking Identity Manager”
Start or Restart this. It should also trigger a restart/start of “Peer Name Resolution Protocol” and “Peer Networking Group”
Now go back to the HomeGroup settings on your computer and the HomeGroup should be visible.
All sorted now 🙂
Best kids android handset
At the moment it is probably the Huawei Ascend G300. £100 on PAYG then a fiver to network unlock off ebay and then root,unlock bootloader,install recovery and flash a custom ROM of your choice 🙂
There is an excellent how-to guide here
You can now network unlock it gratis but ebay was quick and easy.
Android WordPress app
Useful app so I can post from my phone or my tablet
PAC code from Three
Trying to get a PAC code from 3 is exactly that – trying. First time phoning customer services after asking for the PAC code the overseas operator just hung up. The second time when I got through (Dial 333 from mobile then options 1,1,4,2) after repeatedly asking for the PAC, being put on hold for several minutes, being offered iPhone handsets for loyalty etc etc she finally grudgingly sent the code.
The operators don’t make it easy. The sooner it can be done instore or online the better.
GiffGaff here i come….
PACcodes is a useful UK site to walk you through the steps required
Antrim Primary School
Toying with the idea of helping to setup a website for the Primary School. Something like wordpress is ideal as it can be so easily edited and adapted. Now looking for somewhere that could host it…
Sine qua non, or not, as the case may be
Interesting case this morning – abdominal stab wound
Standard ATLS/Surgical dogma is penetrating abdominal injury = absolute indication for laparotomy. However a bit of searching pubmed et al suggests a significant proportion of these type of injuries *could* be managed by expectant observation in a HDU type setting rather than by rushing to theatre. Much depends on local availability of FAST/CT/surgical experience, but it is interesting that penetrating abdominal trauma does not always sine non qua a laparotomy. There appear to be many papers on this so go google……
Infinite loop – amazon.co.uk
Finally fixed an infinite loop with amazon. I’ve used it for years with a hotmail address as my login, but never received ANY emails from them about orders/dispatch confirmations, but the orders arrived so I wasn’t bothered. I tried then recently to change the registered address from hotmail to gmail but got stuck in an endless loop, with none of the password reset options working. I spent 30mins on the phone to support to no avail working through the options. Finally I remembered to check my hotmail blocked senders list an lo and behold amazon.co.uk was on it…Once I whitelisted this I was able to finally reset my amazon login email over to gmail and everything works again 🙂 Kind of my own fault but still not sure why unblocking amazon.co.uk from my hotmail account suddenly allowed everything to work again….one of the little mysteries in life.