Intro As you may know if you follow Ackadia, I’ve been struggling with ill-health for several years now and spells of sometimes suicidal levels of chronic depression, the last – current – spell being especially bad, probably the worst. Details don’t matter but I had myself put in hospital before I got any worse and […]
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Empowering yourself to escape depression. Read More »
You know in all the ‘action movies’ where the besieged heroes are valiantly crossing the decrepit rope bridge, rotten boards breaking off and falling hundreds of feet down into the chasm, rope or vines on the main cable coming apart, one strand at a time? Well, that’s life. Stuff happens. You get over it. Sometimes
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Picking a compact camera Before we go on, this isn’t about reviewing cameras, it’s about choosing the best camera for the job. In this case it’s a good quality, lightweight all round camera, one that a professional won’t be ashamed to have in their pocket, but at the same time isn’t too complex for a
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How kidney failure concerns led to discovering an embolism Health is a precious commodity You don’t realise how valuable it is – until it starts to run out! There’s an eye-opening headline for you, eh! Certainly melodramatic, probably but by no means definitely an exaggeration, but, in essence, it’s true! Perhaps "Having kidney failure may
Pulmonary Embolism – having kidney failure saved my life! Read More »
Windows: A brief history Pre-windows (on the PC) Ignoring any Unix and Apple flavours, the first multi-tasking ‘windows’ program was IBM’s Topview application, released in 1984. After this, in July 1985, some four months before the first Microsoft version, Quarterdeck released DESQview. November 20th, 1985: Windows 1.0 The first version of Windows™ It’s main selling
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Squarewords See if you can solve this letter array puzzle. This is one of a large number of puzzles I wrote back in the 80’s. Seems a shame to waste it, so I’ve added it here. Squarewords Read clockwise or anticlockwise each block of four letters can form two or more words. No proper nouns
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Nexus word puzzle Going through my boxes, I found a load of puzzles I wrote back in the 80’s for various places. Seems a waste, so I’ll start adding them here. Can you find the connection between the following four words ? (nxa001) Words : Beam fish rise less (nxa002b) Words: Sane lark tans rice
‘Celebs’ doing depression You have to laugh how all of a sudden it almost seems fashionable to be “depressed”. You can almost hear the PR people and ‘celebrity’ agents minds ticking over with this: Agent: “Have you seen the coverage Catherine Zeta-Jones is getting? Get out there now and admit you have a problem” (a
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