Category Archives: Health

The Mobile Convergence

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Branedy

Over the past few years there has been a subject called Technological convergence not to be confused with Technological singularity In one aspect that event has happened to me this year. Because no one noticed, I have been pretty sporadic … Continue reading →

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Absence of Posts

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Branedy

With the rare exceptions, where my personal kettle boiled over, and small posts were made, I have been mostly absent from posting on this blog. Right in the middle of an election, a topic I usually spout off about, there … Continue reading →

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A missing (technology) link

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Branedy

I may have stumbled upon a missing link in our technology. But first let me tell you a bit of myself. I use a CPAP to help me breath at night. And while I won’t die without it, I am … Continue reading →

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More Pseudoscience in the Press

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Branedy

This video at the BBC U.S. Site that claims Technology ‘rewires’ our brains Is yet another Pseudoscience attempt to baffle with Bullshit, the viewer. It comes off all Super Tech and is really no better than claiming that “Technology destroys … Continue reading →

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What can you say

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Branedy

I’ve been neglecting the blogging, Twittering, facebook world lately as personal issues have, I was going to say crept into, but it’s more like slammed into, me again. It’s not depressing enough to hear about an incompetent Irish government politicians … Continue reading →

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The Recession and Comfort food

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Branedy

I’m making a bold prediction that this Recession with bring on a resurgence of Comfort food in the Irish diet, and really the world. Many exotic restaurants will begin to feel the pinch long before the local carvery closes it’s … Continue reading →

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Irish Meat Denial

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Branedy

All the pork recalled before the farms using the contaminated feed are identified. Pork producers offering to refill the supplies without testing the pigs first Declaring that the irish beef is safe after they discovered contaminated cows and before testing … Continue reading →

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Weathermen and the GOP

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Branedy

What does a TV weatherman and the Republican Party have in common? A weatherman can incorrectly predict the weather every day and still have a job. The GOP politicians can be wrong about everything else and are still in the … Continue reading →

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The Other Shoe has fallen

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Branedy

As things go a pair of old shoes are not long separated and the 62 year married couple which are my parents are reunited in death 15 days apart. So now the decision has to be made if I should … Continue reading →

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High Risk Jobs

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Branedy

The job of Javelin ‘Catch’ has always been a high risk job.

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My Blogging Station in Tallaght Hospital

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Branedy

My MacBook blogging station Note the Irish Broadband Ripwave modem in the window and the Luas through the window. Be aware also, that I’m now gone from the hospital, free to blog from the freedom of my recliner at home.

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Monday may mean independence

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Branedy

I’m looking forward to monday as it may actually become my release from the hospital. The hospital stay in which I’ve posted about the A&E and the long stay through Christmas and the New Year and the Medieval rituals which … Continue reading →

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Medicine and medieval torture

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Branedy

Having a Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) a Angiogram and a Transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) in that order over the last three hospital working days, I can truly see that if you have the chance to avoid the hospital, you should make every … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year from the Hospital

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Branedy

As I’m still stuck in (and blogging from) the hospital this New Years Eve, I will wish that all the rest of the blogging world remains OUT of the hospital this New Years Eve and hope you can remain in … Continue reading →

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A night, and two weeks at the Tallaght Hospital

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Branedy

What started as a regular stressful holiday season has, by way of my lousy diet while I toil away in Dublin, was made more ‘thrilling’ when in the early morning hours of the Tuesday prior to Christmas I was shocked into awareness of my … Continue reading →

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