Personal update, 1st July 2007 I’ve had a ghastly week, it feels like my blood urea is right up again and my kidneys are giving me loads of grief – not a good thing as by the time you can feel the pain… Just as well I’m back in hospital next week to have my […]
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Digital and film camera companies I reckon I’ve covered all the main players, the rest I will add as I come to them. If you think you belong below or want your entry amending, let me know. Paul. Addenda 2020. Many years since I first wrote this and a number of the companies have since
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Photo Glossary A/V outputs Audio Video or A/V outputs allow you send an image or recording to a TV for viewing. AVI A video movie format clip in Windows. Unlike standards created MPEG, it can need any one of a frankly bewildering number of proprietary variations of AVI Video CODEC’s. CF Card Compact Flash cards
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(Copied from old page. Links removed as most are dead or irrelevant now. Paul, Nov 2013) Site Status (GoDaddy) (This is mostly a to-do / in progress page for my own convenience when moving a load of sites to a new, dedicated server) Alexa Quantcast quantified publisher Google Analytics Ryan’s Piczo site Ackadia .com Content:
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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me… Permission to have one drink a night, as long as it was after 10pm and provided I felt up to it. Very sensible really, what with the kidney failure, medication and so forth, but I digress. Now and then I just like to
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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me… Nothing, nada, zip, zilch – because by October I am heartily sick of ‘Christmas’ ! Back when I were a lad… I’m a lot older, more jaded and deeply cynical but you can’t tell me I’m wrong. OK, it helped that we still
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NHS Whiston Trust apology: ref 244/2006 (The 244th complaint ?) Dear Mr Ackerley I write in reply to your letter received on 12 September 2006 regarding your recent admission to ward K3. I am sorry to learn of your recent dissatisfaction with our service and in particular the overall care you received during your admission.
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Follow up and comments for the letter to the Chief Executive of Whiston NHS Trust I sent my letter first class on 9th August, 2006: PALS responded straight away, saying as I’d moved to another hospital there was nothing they could do. St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust finally replied over a month later
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