Month: January 2015

• January 30, 2015

  Altnageezy (*Nialism*)

  EDIT: Just to clarify, *nialism* is referring to a word coined by Niall, one of my fellow medical students. I can spell relatively well, but in this case I’m fabricating words. Life is full of choices. Some of those choices lead us down paths filled with wonder and adventure, and some of those lead us […]
• January 25, 2015

  Into the Woods and Batman

  We ventured Into the Woods and saw the titular film last week, and those woods may just be the same woods from the Evil Dead. They’re every bit as disturbing as the woods in the Evil Dead. What initially appeared to be a children’s film quickly unravelled into something darker with more mature themes than […]
• January 17, 2015

  Renewed Respect for General Practice

  Bear with me – this is more medically related than anything else I have written so far, but I believe it should be said. My time in General Practice is over. Like many people who start studying medicine, I had no inclination of ever becoming a GP. My exposure to doctors was limited to getting […]
• January 1, 2015

  Raspberry Pi is Alive, and the Dawn of the New Year

  The title says it all. The Raspberry Pi-based weather station is reporting live to Weather Underground, allowing access to the weather conditions in Magheralin from anywhere in the world! Trying to get the Pi to do what I wanted was tricky, but the solution was a different program. I changed from pywws to WeeWX which […]