Skype
I’m using Skype a bit. My ID is ‘vagueshot’ Send a message before calling please.
An automated/instrumented body
As I lie here I’m connected to a heart monitor, that reports by radio to the central support unit. But they also take my blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature every hour or so.
How long will it be before I could wear a body suit, that did everything automatically, even if I was at home in bed?
This could take a complete map of everythung the wearer did.
In addition to medical treatment, it could have implications in the treatment of mental health and drug addition. especially if it contained a two-way communication link, so they could be informed when to take their medication.
Thanks to These People
I have had lots of messages. thanks especially to these people who have sent messages: JMcM,YOKO, J & C; EB; GH; Indie1; Elvin & Sue; GK; PB-T; John & Sue; LizP; PE; KT; AC; RE; AS; JG; LionelS; JimS;
Finger Friendly Packaging
If we want to see how a company in a small country can create a very large high-tech niche for themselves, you need look no further than Logitech, who are based in Switzerland. Their products aren’t very cuckoo clock.
As I’ve bought myself a new laptop for the journey, I felt it would be a good idea to get a new mouse. I hate those pads on laptops which never seem to work for me! So as I’ve got several of their products, I looked no further than Logitech.
The mouse works well and has a very small transmitter, so I can leave it in all the time. And the mouse works on just one battery. In fact I’m using it now.
But what surprised me was the packaging.
Logitech's Finger Friendly Packaging
Note the red arrow at the top. It points to a perforated area in the packaging, which you tear along in the age old fashion and hey presto, you get access to the contents.
No broken nails, knives or scissors.
This type of packaging should be compulsory!
10/10 to Logitech.
Three Come at Once and then Nothing
We have had three declarations from Sunderland and we’re still waiting for another about an hour later.
Coupled with the poor performance of the polling stations in locking people out and not having enough ballot papers, isn’t it about time we used something like the Estonian Method of voting?
In Estonia you vote over the Internet and you can do this as many times as you like, with the last vote counting.
Emily Buchanan’s Touch Screen
It’s very big!
I want one.
It would do this idea just fine. Especially if it was a lot bigger!
ST Microelectronics
Another fraud. Ignore it.
STMicroelectronics in the United Kingdom is interested in employing a financial payment contractor, capable of performing the duty of receiving payments on behalf of our company from our customers.
In performing this duty, you will be entitled to a commission of 5% for any payment you receive on behalf of our company. If you are interested in this offer, you are expected to send us the following information – Full
Names: / Age: / Sex: / Marital Status: / Contact Address: / Present Employer And Position Held: / 7. Telephone Number (endeavour to include your MOBILE number): / Email Address: / 9. Fax (If Any):
kardec Connery,
(Human Resources, STMicroelectronics)
As Bob Bear is retiring, I shall be posting these in future. But not as thoroughly as he does.
On a serious point about these scams. I run a small but sensible UK vompnay, that takes payments from all over the world. People send me money by direct transfer, credit cards or PayPal.
Why in my right mind would I ever pay an intermediary five percent to just put the money through their bank account?
Bob Bear Retires
The owner and updater of one of the Internet’s biggest any scam resources, Bob Bear, is retiring.
Thanks for all your work, Bob.
The ability to check the scams all in one place will be missed.
NetTemps Inc
This is a scam. So don’t reply.
Looking for a job? My name is Juliette Barnes, I am a recruiting manager of NetTemps Inc, a recruiting agency for direct-hire, contract, and freelance professionals within various professions.
Today I would like introduce some part-time and virtual office vacancies in the spheres of Advertising, Education, Engineering, Finance, Health care, Information technology, Media, Real estate and Transportation.
If you are interested to learn more about the jobs offered, please get back to me, providing your name and contact number.
We are eager to help you find a better job and improve your career!
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail me on:
c v @ n e t t e m p s i n . c o . u k [please delete spaces in the email address before sending it to us]
Yours sincerely,
Juliette Barnes
NetTemps Inc
Why is this a scam?
Look at the e-mail address from where it was sent to you. Did it have anything to do with Juliette Barnes? No!
Remember there is one born every minute. Don’t let it be you!
Computers Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Child Illnesses
This was a headline in The Independent.
A computer has proved more accurate in diagnosing severe fever in children than doctors using their clinical judgement, researchers have found.
Is it the way medicine is going, as it looks like the computer system is better in this case? There’s no reason to believe that in certain areas, this may well be possible.
As a coeliac and a computer person, I’ve always felt that the diagnosis of coeliac disease could be done by means of a simple on-line system, that gave an indication that could be confirmed by proper tests. This is because coeliac disease shows itself in many and diverse ways. I had chronic dandruff for a start and would you see a gastroenterologist for that?
I think too, you have to look at the statistics of medicine and especially GPs. My granddaughter was born with a congenital hernia of the diaphragm. She’s fine now and just like any other eight-year-old. Now this problem occurs in about one in 3,000 babies. When I told my GP about my granddaughter, she said she’d never come across one in general practice.
So perhaps the computer can be much better with rare complaints.
The Anonymous Widower 