Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Yesterday, my own lap top at home blew up.I know nothing about IT, and so it could take some time to get it up and running again.Some of you have emailed me on my home email address, and I'm sorry but I cannot pick these up at present and nor, obviously, can I return the email.If there is any thing pressing, please email me on my work email address of malcolm.needs@nbs.nhs.uk. However, I can, of course, only pick these up when I am actually in my office, and we have a fire wall that would stop an inter continental ballistic missle dead in its tracks.I did find out one thing though. It turns out that I have a wife and son at home as well as a lap top!:eek::eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Jeff Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 I did find out one thing though. It turns out that I have a wife and son at home as well as a lap top!:eek::eek:I am sure your wife and son are very grateful unless of course you are desturbing there own plans as happens to me with my wife and two daughters at home. You know the remote controls for everything in the house - I am not allowed to touch these when they are home.Steve:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 6, 2010 Author Share Posted May 6, 2010 I am sure your wife and son are very grateful unless of course you are desturbing there own plans as happens to me with my wife and two daughters at home. You know the remote controls for everything in the house - I am not allowed to touch these when they are home.Steve:(I know the feeling only too well!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cool::cool::cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMcCord Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Oh NO! Cut off from the world! :eek: Isn't it amazing how we come to rely on technology. I used to think I didn't need a lap top, but now I feel like a part of me is missing when mine is misbehaving. Malcolm, I guess you'll just have to go for a walk . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deny Morlino Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Sorry to hear about the laptop disaster! What is a remote? :tongue: Actually going to be on vacation after tomorrow for 9 days. For 5 of those I will be out of cell phone range, etc. Actually looking forward to time with my wife sans children for the first time in about 9 years. Will be a time for us to get to know each other again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaraT23 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 I don't think my husband and I will get that opportunity until all the children move out. So it is just, hey I think I know you don't I? Have a great vacation, sounds like you are going somewhere very relaxing what with being out of cell phone range. sorry about the lap top malcolm. I have 2 home computers, one here at work and internet on my phone. Yes, I am a techno junkie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L106 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Sorry about your laptop disaster, Malcolm. You don't suppose your wife and son had anything to do with it, do you? Hmmmmm........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deny Morlino Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 4 day western Carribean cruise. Looking forward to the lab not being able to reach me for a change. Reside closest to the lab and you all know what that means. Hope to recharge while relaxing.Malcolm I am not sure I buy into the theory of the wife and kids taking the laptop out, but stranger things have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiescast Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Have a great vacation Deny!Malcolm, I hope you don't go into withdrawal! Can you go to a Library or similar location there to access a public computer? If I can get to the internet, then I can get my e-mail (both personal and work). I also get them all on my Blackberry.I have to admit that there have been times when I would have liked to have sabotaged my husband's various connected devices just to see if he would actually look at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 9, 2010 Author Share Posted May 9, 2010 Have a great vacation Deny!Malcolm, I hope you don't go into withdrawal! Can you go to a Library or similar location there to access a public computer? If I can get to the internet, then I can get my e-mail (both personal and work). I also get them all on my Blackberry.I have to admit that there have been times when I would have liked to have sabotaged my husband's various connected devices just to see if he would actually look at me.Yes, I could, but this would only be at weekends (as I'm up too early and home too late to do it during the week). As I'm on-call most weekends (either the Saturday or the Sunday - as now) I can pick up the BBT posts at work (if I get called in, which seems, at the moment, to be EVERY time I'm on-call).I'm working on a patient at the moment, with anti-M+U, that we have only seen three times. Once at 0300, once at 22.00 and this time at 02.00. It seems that this patient only ever requires a work-up in the dark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 9, 2010 Author Share Posted May 9, 2010 It's fixed (dead battery)!:D:D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbostock Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Whew!!! Welcome back to cyberspace, Malcolm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollowayl Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Dear Malcolm,talking about being stressed out with IT I am in the middle of a 24 hour on call and the Ortho analyser terminal has died on me! I cannot get anything but a black screen and I didn't touch it! Left a message for the Hotline but they are not open this time??Only 9 long hours to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 Dear Malcolm,talking about being stressed out with IT I am in the middle of a 24 hour on call and the Ortho analyser terminal has died on me! I cannot get anything but a black screen and I didn't touch it! Left a message for the Hotline but they are not open this time??Only 9 long hours to go Yep, automation and computerisation are not the answer to everything. There must ALWAYS be a back-up.:eek::eek:By the way, my lap-top, being 10-years-old, is still in Intensive Care, on the grounds that I can only use it on mains electricity - they no longer make the particular battery it uses. I'm thinking of trying to run it on gas or parafin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 What is a remote? It is the thing that allows you to change channels, volume, etc on your television, without having to actually get up from your seat and physically press a button on the set.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMcCord Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Malcolm... have you tried the internet or Ebay to get a battery for your elderly friend (your laptop)? You might be able to get a new one that way. My mother got one for a defunct cellphone that way.Anti-M, -U.... at midnight...? Could he/she be a vampire??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 Malcolm... have you tried the internet or Ebay to get a battery for your elderly friend (your laptop)? You might be able to get a new one that way. My mother got one for a defunct cellphone that way.Anti-M, -U.... at midnight...? Could he/she be a vampire???No, and for several reasons.1. (and by far and away the most important) I am too stupid to have even thought of that!2. I was wiped out on Sunday, as I didn't get home until after 9 in the morning.3. I had to work today.4. I'm lecturing tomorrow at a meeting, coincidentally, about providing blood for ethnic minority groups.Once I've got back on an even keel, I will certainly try your excellent suggestion.THANKS!:D:D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiescast Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Malcolm, it is ironic that you should have the case you mentioned just then. I was handling a case of a sickle cell patient with anti-M, anti-Fy3, anti-E, and a warm auto that day! Oh, and she is Down's Syndrome and combative, so it was very difficult to get more sample when we needed it!AMcCord: I have not heard of red cell antibodies as part of the vampiric syndrome...is this a new discovery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 Malcolm, it is ironic that you should have the case you mentioned just then. I was handling a case of a sickle cell patient with anti-M, anti-Fy3, anti-E, and a warm auto that day! Oh, and she is Down's Syndrome and combative, so it was very difficult to get more sample when we needed it!AMcCord: I have not heard of red cell antibodies as part of the vampiric syndrome...is this a new discovery?Wow! Rather you than me!:redface::redface: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 I spoke too soon!I can't just be the battery, as the blank, blank thing fell over again last night, and it was running on mains.I have tightened the belt, and have ordered a new one.I may be off air at home for a while though (still can post at work, as I am doing now).:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiescast Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I am sorry for your loss, Malcolm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Jeff Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I am envious Malcolm, a 10 year technology jump, it should have all the bells and whistles and you won't be able to type quick enough!!! My home laptop is 5 years old and doesn't keep up with my daughters school laptop.Steve:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 I am envious Malcolm, a 10 year technology jump, it should have all the bells and whistles and you won't be able to type quick enough!!! My home laptop is 5 years old and doesn't keep up with my daughters school laptop.Steve:)Ah, the problem with a new lap-top with all the bells and whistles is that it is only as good as the person operating it.With my knowledge of IT, it may as well be an abacus! It arrives next Thursday - we shall see!:redface: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deny Morlino Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 It is the thing that allows you to change channels, volume, etc on your television, without having to actually get up from your seat and physically press a button on the set.:)Yes my children seem to always have possession of this elusive creature. Not sure if I would recognize one unless it landed in my lap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMcCord Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 AMcCord: I have not heard of red cell antibodies as part of the vampiric syndrome...is this a new discovery?Maybe a good research project for an SBB student??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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