Why I still love Manic Miner
A mini retrospective on Manic Miner, one of the most iconic games released on the ZX Spectrum. I keep playing it today for good reason.
Author: mcphail
Happy 15th birthday, Ubuntu Warty Warthog
To celebrate Ubuntu’s 15th birthday, I try my original Warty Warthog disk in a virtual machine (with hilarious consequences)
Raigmore Hospital offers tattoo-less radiotherapy for breast cancer patients
Congratulations to the medical, physics, dosimetry, tech, radiography and nursing teams at the Oncology department at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on becoming the first Cancer Centre to offer tattoo-less radiotherapy for breast cancer patients in the NHS. Reducing the stigmata of radiotherapy reduces the stigma of radiotherapy. Hopefully these combinations of surface-guided and image-guided setup…
ESMO 2019: PROfound shows encouraging results with PARP inhibition in a subset of prostate cancer patients
Men with castrate refractory metastatic prostate cancer which has deficiencies in double stranded DNA repair may have progression of their cancer delayed by Olaparib. This opens up an avenue for bespoke therapy in the management of mCRPC.
ESMO 2019: PARP inhibitor maintenance in ovarian cancer prolongs PFS in first line patients
Three new studies have shown that recurrence of ovarian cancer can be delayed by giving PARP inhibitors after chemotherapy. These results build on the success of the SOLO1 trial last year, and make a compelling case for treatment. Improvements in life expectancy remain elusive for the time being.
ESMO 2019: Preliminary results from RADICALS-RT show that many men can be spared radiotherapy after prostate removal for cancer
The preliminary results of the RADICALS-RT trial have been presented at the ESMO congress in Barcelona. It appears that many men who have had prostatectomies for prostate cancer can be spared the toxicities of radiotherapy if they have close monitoring of their blood PSA levels.
At the end of The Journey Down
The Journey Down Trilogy is a charming, expansive, inventive and warm adventure game which I’d thoroughly recommend.
The Journey Down, Chapter 1
A mini review of the first chapter of The Journey Down, a point and click adventure game which oozes charm.
Further adventures in the fediverse
I’ve added the ActivityPub plugin to the site, so it should be possible to follow the blog by following @mcphail@neil.themcphails.uk on Mastodon, Pleroma or similar.
LXD, I love you
Don’t ask me what lxd does. Or what lxc does. Or how lxd relates to lxc. I just know that lxd (or lxc – this confuses the hell out of me) is an awesome piece of software. Having snagged a new vanity domain in the .uk release, I decided to bite the bullet and join…