April 2023 – Grumpy Youngish Men

Living that tin can life

This is a new series of posts detailing a personal project of mine. It is not to be taken as professional advice. Far from it. I will not be releasing any plans or files, unless there is a great desire for it. Mistakes will be great and plentiful, so follow along at your own peril.…

On Dasher…

I’m Writing this using a program And while its not perfect its pretty damn good . I’ve never used it before today and already feal fairly confident with it . It has a huge amount of functionality it can do some basic word prediction, and punctuation. It’s controlled through mouse movements and click to start…

Living that tin can life

First do no harm! Does the Hypocratic oath hold up in modern medicine?

Another delve into the annals of history; this time we travel back to ancient Greece and the island of Kos. In the year 460 BCE the father of medicine Hippocrates is born. Hippocrates learned his craft from his father and grandfather and would go on to revolutionise medicine in the ancient world, but not without…

Yeh but! The importance of the Devil’s advocate in healthcare departments

I’ll get back to the tech stuff soon going to do a piece on the Pilot X at some point, but I was reading a fascinating article on my way into London about the 10th man which got me thinking, in a time when healthcare departments are often over stretched and under pressure (pushing down…

3D printing a fad or the future of accessible equipment?

With 3d printers becoming cheaper and better quality, is it time for all accessible equipment providing departments to get a couple of these little buggers and just go nuts on designing their own in house equipment? Well lets unpack some arguments for and against this. We will start with the bad news first (rip that…