Captain Serious

I have been helping out a good friend of mine in installing Wordpress as a content management site for her new Womens Site

This will be a sort of womens portal with a womens blog built in - she has some interesting ideas, particularly when it comes to women’s politics, so give it a read.

Wordpress is very well suited to use as a CMS, there are some really nice plugins and templates that can emphasise the ‘CMS-ssy’ side of it over the blog, and it was real fun getting it together.

Not posted for a long while - been very busy.

I moved office and, due to a cash windfall decided to upgrade everything - office furniture, computers… everything.

Been a long time since I did anything like that - I used to order locally, but now we have e-bay
Although, I must confess, I didn’t first think of e-bay, I went searching on google for ‘bureau desks for sale by auction‘ and found an e-bay aggregator site (is that what they are called?), which collated e-bay results on one page - I found what I was looking for, and a whole lot more.

I ended up buying a new main desk, office tables & chairs and even a new coffee perculator - thats e-bay for you I guess - its a damn gold mine of temptingly priced gear.

Its been a long year and its time for a nice relaxing holiday.

Not sure where to go this year, I narrowed it down to a villa in Portugal (The Algarve), Barbados or Menorca.

The Algarve is particularly interesting to me, as I have been there before and had the holiday of a lifetime.

I stayed in a villa in Vale do Lobo, but this time I fancy one of these villas in Vilamoura or Almancil, both have a good mix of vacation essentials - near to the nice rural portuguese countryside, great beaches and excellent nightlife!

A villa in Carvoeiro is also an option, there are some gorgeous looking villas at VillaRetreats.com.

Well, somewhere like those places anyway - depends on the price of the flight out there I guess - which pretty much rules out Barbados.

There is a new diabetes forum on the loose.

It is Diabetes Buddies Forum - and it is run by Colin Bakewell, the same guy who runs on of the most respected diabetes information sites on the web.

According to Colin, the forum is designed to be easy to use for those newly diagnosed diabetics who are also new to the internet. You don’t need to be web-savvy to ask questions there.

After years of research, medical researchers seem to have found a possible cure for diabetes in the most unlikely area!

Experts at a Canadian medical center in Toronto, say that they have proof the body’s nervous system is one of the causes of diabetes. Experiments on mice have supposedly shown that an injection in the pancreas can leave the diabetic mice diabetes-free, you read full details at cure for diabetes.

Now, I am a cautious man be nature but this seems to have a little more vailidity than the normal over excited claims.

The results were vetted by the well respected medical journal ‘Cell’, and research continues to see if they can carry the result over to humans.

Not bad for my first breaking-news story, eh