Nothing In Particular

[andrew Ivimey]

Too busy at a conference... Coventry is a bit if a dump if I remember. Lakes now.

[Paul Barker]

I ended up removing the burner unit, giving it a decoke, and replacing the jet with a used one from a previous service.

Seems to be cutting in and out better than yesterday/this morning, but because of the position I was working in I've strained my back.

At least I'm warm.

I had a customer who ordered and fitted his own new nozel. Oops he was out by a factor of ten. Oil was rrunning down the wall.

[Paul Barker]

It just sprang to mind, one night as a nurse I was involved in a case of drug dose for a child. I wouldnt counter sign because I knew the dose wasn’t the right volue of injection for a child. More like ten times the volume. But all the formularies on the ward stated the Dr prescribing was right. The other nurse was well peed off with me. I made the on call pharmacist come to the ward and demonstrated the volume I was conscerned about. He went away and studied all the books she had. Its seemed after hours he came back to the ward and agreed with me, the dose prescribed was never given. The source of the error was the Liverpool paediatric formulary which had a misprint by a factor of ten. All the other formularies replecated this error.

The child would have died and both nurse giving the wrong dose would rot in jail. The Dr prescribing the dose would have received a slap on the wrist. Thats the way it works because the person giving the does is the responsible person.

[Mike H]

Finally got around to putting the Ural on Car & Classic late on Saturday, 10 am this morning, sold! Well offer accepted and in process.
Only slight problem-ette, he's in Exeter.....

He could of course simply ride it home – but stay off the motorways...

Departed on a car transporter this morning, to Exeter!

[Daniel Quinn]

It just sprang to mind, one night as a nurse I was involved in a case of drug dose for a child........

Whilst this is an interesting anecdote , the consequences you spell out of the mistake not being discovered are simply not true.

[pre65]

It just sprang to mind, one night as a nurse I was involved in a case of drug dose for a child........

Whilst this is an interesting anecdote , the consequences you spell out of the mistake not being discovered are simply not true.

So Mr legal eagle Dennis, what is the truth in the situation Paul described ?

[Nick]

It just sprang to mind, one night as a nurse I was involved in a case of drug dose for a child........

Whilst this is an interesting anecdote , the consequences you spell out of the mistake not being discovered are simply not true.

I agree that the chances of the error in the publication not being noticed and corrected are small (I would have thought the first time would be enough). Its clear though that errors do happen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leic ... 566427.stm
https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/arti ... -happening

[Daniel Quinn]

Mistakes happen , a junior member of staff rotting in prison for a mistake not of his/her origin deos not happen .

[Ray P]

If you use Wikipedia it's worth considering supporting it...

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https://store.wikimedia.org/

[Ray P]

My old Xeon processor equipped computer suffered a terminal fault this evening, seemingly a defunct processor. That computer was pretty powerful in its day, benchmarking close to 10,000 and in an enormous tower case that was mostly full of numerous empty 5.25 and 3.5in bays - I only used one 2.5in SSD - I've just ordered a refurbished desktop to replace it that is slightly higher on benchmark score but is only about the size of a thick paperback.

[jack]

Mate just gave me a Sound Devices MixPre-10 that he'd managed to stuff up by leaving batteries in it - very expensive bit of kit...

Got it working again and had a play with it - deeply sexy in a very audio-geeky way! Hugely functional bit of pro kit, built like a tank, with an awful lot packed into a very small space.

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[shane]

Anyone else having trouble getting on to the AoS forum? I’m getting a host server timeout error.

[pre65]

Anyone else having trouble getting on to the AoS forum? I’m getting a host server timeout error.

It's been a l o n g time since I was last tempted to look, several years or so.

But, just for you I tried, and got the same result.

Does that Scottish/Italian bloke still run it, the one who came to Owston eons ago.

[shane]

He still owns it, but he hasn’t been active on the forum for a couple of years, apparently due to ill health. The forum itself was still very active up to a couple of days ago, but I guess it’s possible he may have stopped paying the bills.

[jack]

I was going to put this in "a little light humour", but it's too tragic...

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