Jaf – Page 104 – Dumpling in a Hanky

As L’Oreal says…

…because I’m worth it!

Ok, so it’s been pointed out that there may be more use for my random wafflings than I thought, so there’s actually a point to keeping blogging on here. So, I will!

I will still try and focus on Scots Law: as there’s very few of us doing this it seems to be the most useful thing I can do. But perhaps I’ll loosen my self-imposed restrictions on keeping it to technical topics, and maybe allow myself to meander along the random roads of library stuff…

A few posts ‘from draft that have been lurking because I didn’t think they were Web 2.0 enough’ may pop up on here now!

Time to shut down?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what my blog is actually contributing.
I’m not a leading ‘thinker’, I’m not an investigative reporter, I’m not really great at anything, I’m just, well, here.
It’s been great for meeting other law librarians, both in the UK and internationally, but do I actually really contribute anything useful or new?
I don’t think so, to be very honest.
So what’s the point of me continuing this blog?

I can now post (hopefully) useful stuff to the law.librarian collaborative blog, which I would otherwise have posted here, so this blog has become kind of surplus to requirements really. I started it to post items I thought were relevant to my field, so I could refer back to them easily, but law.librarians does a far better job of it together than I could ever do on my own!

I may continue to post items of relevance to Scots law only, or the more fun / frivolous that doesn’t really fit on law.librarians, but I think that I’m going to take a break from blogging here, and perhaps in general, and see how I feel about things in a few months. Maybe I’ll become filled with opinions and thoughts, and they’ll be clamouring to be typed out, and I won’t be able to shut up for more than a few days…..who knows!

Cardiac hacking?

From Null Hypothesis, the news that having to have a pacemaker fitted may not be traumatic enough in itself, without hearing that medical staff are now realising that the new, snazzy wifi enabled pacemakers they’re fitting may be a health hazard in themselves!

The pacemakers are wifi enabled, to allow easy downloading of data and checks of the device, meaning the recipient doesn’t have to make as many routine hospital visits. Which is a good thing indeed!
What they hadn’t really taken into account is the fact that wifi also means that, theoretically, the pacemakers are hackable, allowing them to be reprogrammed and potentially triggering life threatening palpitations.

Thankfully, it’s not likely to ever happen, but if have a pacemaker, and your heart starts to race in a wifi cafe, maybe it’s not just the caffeine rush…

Isn’t it funny the places where you find a discussion of duty of care?

Donoghue v Stevenson rises again!

Entertaining discussion about spellings, maiden names and whether or not it was proven the snail was actually in the bottle in the comments section.

And yes, ‘ginger’ in Scotland is generally meaning any fizzy drink, not specifically ginger beer, but in this case, it was referred to specifically as ‘ginger beer’, so ginger beer it is! I imagine in some parts of England the case could have been about ‘pop’ 🙂

T’was to be mixed with the ice cream they bought to create an iced drink, as reported in 1932 SLT 317.

Although personally, I prefer lemonade and vanilla ice cream for an ice cream float.

And no snail included, ta!