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28th
August
2009
Another test post, this one. I just downloaded the wordpress app onto my iPhone, which is cool. Now I can write or edit blog posts, check comments and much more from anywhere, even my bedroom where I am now. The photo below is of my bedside table – posting it only for the reason of testing this app… Hope it works… If you can see this I guess it means it does 
Spent the first part of the evening playing with Apple GarageBand – such a fun and easy piece of software. The new version makes recording guitars so much better as it gives visual representation and control over virtual amps and stomp box effects. I also added in some nice clarinet and organ sounds. It took 2 clicks to send it to iTunes and now I have the fruits of my labour on my iPhone. Very cool. I could easily waste a lot of time on this program…
Anyway typing on an iPhone is a little slow and I have stuff to do so I’ll end this now.. hope it works
Tags : Apple, blog, garageband, iphone
Categories : Housekeeping, iPhone, music |
28th
July
2008
Haven’t blogged a lot here lately, and I doubt that’s going to change much since I officially resume life as a Uni student again next week. I got the course outline for my first unit of my Masters degree last week and I’ll admit I was not enthused. The unit is on Human Health & Environmental Change – basically looking at the effects on climate change on public health and disease as far as I can tell. The thing that I was least impressed with is that the bulk of the assessment for this unit is through a large project/case study – I’ve never been keen on assignments, preferring to get marks through cramming for exams, so this will not be my cup of tea. I’m yet to work out exactly what my weekly study commitment will be. This unit is one of the 5 compulsory core units for the MPH&TM so I don’t have any choice. The other, non-core, unit I will be doing this semester I’m yet to get any information on, but it promises to be much more interesting : Travel Medicine. This is one of the key reasons I’m doing this degree – to give myself another sub-speciality interest, especially if GP obstetric practice was to become unviable (there are constant changes going on in our health system so it’s impossible to say if things will still be the same in another 2 or 5 years time) – and I’ve fixed on Travel Medicine as that interest. This is because I love to travel, find the medical stuff quite interesting, and it also fits well with the medical mission stuff I’ve done over the last 2 years and plan to continue in the future. So that unit should be much more valuable. Part of it involves a 3 day teaching block in tropical Townsville in October which I’m really looking forward to.
So there’s my pre-emptive explanation if I am quiet on the blog front. Paradoxically I’ve also started a new blog for our music team but I’m hoping to get some other contributors on board with that one so I won’t have to carry the load too much. I will continue to use Twitter so at least there will be some updates as to what’s going on with me, and brief comments on various things. I’ve discovered a few interesting medical blogs of late which always makes me feel like I should talk about more medical stuff on here however lack on inspiration and confidentiality concerns (since this is not an anonymous blog) always stymie that. Maybe my studies will provide me with some interesting material?
Anyway patients waiting and I want to get away on time today so I can do some furniture shopping so I must be off.
Tags : blog, uni
Categories : Housekeeping, Personal, Tropical Medicine, University |
1st
May
2008
Well I’m back to working slightly longer days this week after doing half days for the school holidays. For the second half of the holidays it didn’t seem all that slack though as I still had babies being born almost every day which meant early mornings and late nights and other hospital visits in between. This week has been a little quieter on the baby front although I’ve got my second one on the way today (no idea what time she will deliver though) and work here in the surgery is reasonably sedate. I do have a smallish pile of paperwork to get through but rather than doing that I’ve been putting my time to us catching up with some episodes of the Amazing vlog show on YouTube. This is an almost daily video blog produced by Mr Internet and his compadres. The episodes are well produced, funny at times, and interesting. At least I found them interesting but I know most of the guys who are doing it so maybe if you have no idea who they are you might not be so enthralled.
Anyway here’s the first episode – I’ll leave it up to you to check out the rest if you want…
Tags : blog, Obstetrics, vlog, Work, youtube
Categories : General Practice, Internet, Obstetrics, Video |
