http://www.captainserious.co.uk Mad about health - actually, just 'mad' Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:21:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Further to my previous post.... If you are a keen cook and want to start your own recipe or cooking site, it is now easier than ever - and it can cost you nothing. I set up a quick demo here: The Cooks Pantry It uses free hosting (from Sqweebs) and a free ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2009/09/11/want-to-start-your-own-cooking-site/ Of course, no one could describe the recession as a good thing. People are out of work, pensioners are struggling, what savings we have are earning very little interest and it doesn't look changing any time soon. Its not all doom and gloom though. Sadly for restauranteurs, but happily for the rest ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2009/05/13/one-good-effect-of-the-recession-more-people-cooking-meals-at-home/ 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 ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2008/03/25/a-new-womens-site-launches/ 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 ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2008/03/14/boy-have-i-been-busy-moved-office-needed-new-furniture-new-computers-and-everything/ 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 ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2007/06/21/time-to-book-a-vacation/ 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 ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2007/01/03/new-diabetes-forum-launched/ 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 ... http://www.captainserious.co.uk/2006/12/18/major-breakrgough-in-the-search-for-diabetes-cure/