All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The US PTO really does make some dramatically poor decisions.
Of course, the patents have to be filed in the first place, so some of the blame must lie with the companies or individuals that make the applications. Surely an organisation [...]

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We went for lunch today at “The River House“. It’s a restaurant in Stirling that is part of the chain that owns and runs “The Doll’s House” in St Andrews.
It was a great meal, with a nice atmosphere, superb food and great value for money. Parking for their St Andrews locations can be tricky, but [...]

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After a long period of running out of time, the sight of the moon as we drove home this evening was enough to drive me to change the battery in the LNT module sitting atop my Meade LX90. It didn’t take long and was easier than the instructions had led me to think it would [...]

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Those are the two words that I’d use to sum up the response of work to the family problems I’ve been dealing with for the last few weeks. It’s been an enormous relief and they have been as supportive as I could have hoped for

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It’s amazing how some organisations can be so obstructive. Simple requests seem too hard and the staff just seem to be oblivious to any inconvenience or annoyance they are causing. Given how much of our money has been thrown at RBS to keep them solvent, essentially nationalising them in the process, you’d have thought they’d [...]

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Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but the central pharmacy for the main hospital in Perth was closed on New Years Day - because it was a bank holiday!
Apparently none of the staff were suprised by this, but the inability to get the medication prescribed until the following day certainly seemed less than ideal to [...]

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