July 2011
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Health update #11: final diagnosis
If you missed the news at the time: I had a pulmonary embolism back in January of this year that resulted in two months off work feeling like utter crap.
Today was my final (for now, anyway) appointment with my haematology specialist. After being formally diagnosed with a PE in January I spent three months on the blood thinning medication warfarin (often called Coumadin), then I came off the...
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Achievement unlocked: booked a honeymoon
Danielle found the hotel and this evening I have:
renewed my UK driving licence
found and booked flights
found and booked car hire
booked an airport hotel for the night before
unblocked my credit card after my bank’s trigger-happy fraud department blocked it
booked airport parking
pondered how much I hate travel websites (recall that I write travel websites for a living…)
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“In the extensive annals of eavesdropping, all of this is something new. Not even...”
– Jonathan Schell for Al Jazeera on the News International phone hacking revelations. (HT @sinisteragent.)
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The Daily Mash: "Rebekah Brooks must know some... →
Brilliant:
As James Murdoch closed the most successful newspaper in the western world rather than sack a devious harpie, experts said that harpie must have some weapons-grade shit up her sleeve.
Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “Jesus fucking Christ, they must have killed a tramp.”
The News of the World will be axed on Sunday, followed a day...
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