John Meredith's Blog

UHT milk is good. Made from Ultra High Temperature cows, this special milk stays in your cupboard for millennia, waiting for the day when you run out of milk from the normal, low temperature cows. But there has always been a problem… The UHT cartons have been, upandtil now very rubbish. Designed primary to miss [...]

There’s something about today’s coverage on Radio 1 of “Metallica Night“TM which doesn’t sit right with me. In between the pop of the day, we are getting interspersed Metallica tracks, and they have been quite varied…although always on the softer side. But it’s the veiled disdain that drives me up the wall from the slob like Chris Moyles and loud [...]

E-Health insider is carrying a story about Lothian NHS implementing a tough, but flexible approach to data sharing on USB memory sticks. They are utilising encrypted USB sticks, which will be required to write data to an external medium – your common Staples memory stick will be read only. This is backed up by a [...]

I have fought through adversity on many occasions, but it dawned on me very recently: Tesco’s website only works well in Internet Explorer. I thought we were passed all that rubbish about cross-browser compatibility, but I was obviously wrong. Back in my student days I had a rant about Odeon.com not working with anything other [...]