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23 07 2009

Brilliant(!?!) update to the Resident Doctor support website in Auckland…

Hell's bells!  Looks like a cross between the cheesiest aspects of 'Scrubs', 'ER' & 'Days of Our Lives'…

Thanks to my (very amused) wife for the heads up!

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100 Books – nearly half of which I have read

19 07 2009

The BBC believes that most people have read only 6 books from this list:

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (SOME!) X
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X
34 Emma – Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres X
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan X
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson X
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome X
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton X
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks X
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Books I have read (X) = 48

However, books my wife Jen has read = 63

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 2nd

2 07 2009

These are my links for July 2nd:

  • Influenza – Immunisation & Vaccination Info, NSIG New Zealand
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Git – Fast Version Control System
  • Secure source code hosting and collaborative development – GitHub
  • How to Make a Brazilian Bikini Photo Gallery With Drupal and AJAX | Webmaster Tips
  • drupaltherapy.com | Helping you help yourself
  • Youthinmind Homepage
  • Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers
  • OpenID
  • WordPress Plugin Database
  • A List Apart: A List Apart
  • Cariboo Baby Furniture – Home
  • Lifehacker – Five Best Free System Restore Tools – Disk image
  • GParted — Live CD/USB/PXE/HD
  • How to Dual Boot Windows 7
  • What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? – NYTimes.com
  • UltraSurf
  • Freegate | Dynamic Internet Technology
  • Influenza Statistics
  • WHO | Influenza (Seasonal)
  • ECDC – Influenza
  • Apple – Support – New Zealand
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Here’s… Wolfram Alpha

19 05 2009

Wolfram Alpha is a new knowledge engine:

I input my first name and here is the result:

Andrew  (male given name)


Latest information for US births:

rank | 10th  (2007)\nfraction | 1 in 120 people (0.83%) (2007)\nnumber | 18157 people per year  (2007)




History for US births:

Fraction:

Fraction



Number:

Number



Rank:

Rank




Estimates for current US population:

expected total number alive today | 1.06 million people\nexpected population fraction | 1 in 221 people (0.45%)\nexpected rank | 27th\n(using standard US mortality data)




Estimated current age distribution:

\n(using standard US mortality data)

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 24th

26 04 2009

These are my links for April 24th:

  • Live Streaming 101 -
  • Current.com -
  • Filezilla FTP Project -
  • Scarygirl by Nathan Jurevicius -
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