2-3 weeks ago my right ankle / achilles area swelled significantly - walking was painful. Couple of very large blisters, lots of weeping from it, took several days to subside. Cause unknown. About 5 days ago the left side of my left hand swelled up (I could not see my knuckles) and began weeping. It is now okay. Woke this morning feeling okay. Head felt ‘wet’ on the left side which I ignored for a while then asked J to take a look. She can see it weeping fairly quickly (as these things go). If I put my left hand - with closed fingers - over that side with my thumb on my ear the swelling extends beyond the covered area. Because I have a shaved head it is really noticeable. I have a large area of squishy skin on my skull. Weird.
I just got the email saying that Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII (PSP) has been despatched. As the same time I get another email saying Valkyrie Profile Lennoth (PSP) is on it’s way. Taken with the other Final Fantasy games I need to complete (VIII, IX, X, XI on PS2/3) I have some serious gaming time I should be putting in.
The girls bought me Racedriver GRID for Father’s Day and I’ve played some of it. It’s like Everybody’s Golf, Lumines, WipeOut and others in that you can take 15-30 minutes and have a good game. Short and sweet gaming hits. But not FF. You need an hour or more, several in fact. And that is what I need to build into my days somehow…..
Nurses are to be rated according to the levels of care and empathy they give to patients under government plans. BBC
That’s okay for patients, the hospital and govt targets. But if you are a nurse and want to find the best place to work you need the ratings for black humour. It’s the same for any people-facing job - no humour and you’ll crumble.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/06/16/psp-playstation-portable-v400-update/
Google search comes with the next firmware update which makes it absolutely unavoidable. I have never seen the need for Google Desktop but I am aware of what else it does. So let’s say I do use Google on my PSP. When I connect what else will be extracted apart from the browser? What else will it phone elsewhere? Games saves? Amount of memory used? Firmware hacks? Video / Music usage? Google want money which is fair enough but Sony don’t need that money. The market is too small but what they will want is more data on users and this seems an ideal opportunity to peer into a user’s machine without their knowledge. I cannot see that Sony will argue that search will be useful and if it was said to be then why not make it an optional download through the store? Pushing anything 3rd party through firmware is not good.
The Times Archive invites you to explore 200 years of history as it appeared in the original pages of The Times newspaper from 1785-1985
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/