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In this show I bring you up to speed with the main events which have happend since I left work, touching on a weekend of Glam Rock madness, how early detection is currently our only good weapon against deadly skin cancer and …… three incredible tracks these being as follows.

Music :

• Soft - Droppin’
• Julia Harris - These Days
• Brandon Patton - Thirty One Hundred Miles

A write up from Dave Jewel of the Sladefest2006 weekend is to be found at this link

Stay moleaware and find out how my Siascope demonstration went: moleAware.org. If you’d like more information about how technology which can see under the skin check out: Astron Clinica

My flickr account, with first @media2006 tag added to a photo of my train tickets

I really enjoyed getting back into the podcasting, it does take sometime to put together a show so please let me know what you think. Cheers, Lee

Recently UK weather has been threatening to give a few tornadoes, see below for the latest sighting.

“The Met Office has confirmed the weather in the Hutton area was “conducive to tornadoes” at the weekend although it had not received any reports of unusual weather conditions in the area.” Source

This coming only a few days after we had the most violent clap of thunder I have probably ever heard around here. The storm that was over our house eventually destroyed the home of an old lady a few miles down the road.

The weather recently has been far from sunny, however I just found this charming little story from England:

“‘Because I took my holidays in the UK, I would never have thought I was in a high risk category,’ said Lee Jordan, web designer. ‘I was shocked to discover how far the melanomas had progressed by the time the doctors looked at them. Young people in particular need to be aware that there is an easy way to get their skin checked for this most dangerous of diseases.’” Source

It’s then typical that the weather is rather wet and dull! But seriously the UV Index is creeping up, while focusing on sun protection for your summer holiday, bear in mind the dangers of the pub lunch, or the gardening, or the journey on the sunny side of a train, or chosing to wear shorts not jeans ….. and on and on. Then of course comes mole watch.

Noticed the increase in Windows XP adverts on TV recently? The last major version of Windows for consumers lauched in 2001. Six years is a long time to wait for an upgrade.

Ballmer Says Microsoft Pushing Back Vista, Again

I’m having my personal dot to dot game taken away!

I have to go back to hospital tommorrow very early in the morning to have mickey, thats a mole, removed. I actually told them I wasn’t worried just aware, but nope it’s coming out. In terms of it changing, well yes very slowly, patches are getting darker, some are getting lighter and there’s a white blob in the middle, which I read ages ago was an immune response ….. in this case probably not to cancer, I’m certain it won’t be. However I don’t trust my melanocytes and neither does anyone else given history, I think if you were me you’d want some type of rouge melanocyte shooting device. I expect to be back out again about 15:00 ish?

There is currently no real alternative to biopsy, I’ve obviously seen the future in Cambridge, with the SIAscope, but right now a histology report is the gold standard. I don’t even have a lot of moles and I really thought I’d moved on from the mole stage to consider other signs, so far my main focus has been and remains on lymph nodes and bumps under the skin.

Hospital is so boring.

This needed doing and we all did a great job in freshening this room up. Apart from decorating our bathroom was getting on a bit, we’d always had the original suite and a whole wall of mirror tiles. On an impulse I brought a modern white suite, hehe and that was the start of many a trip to Homebase! Click the first photo to enter the photo post.

I really like this wall, it used to hold the mirror tiles

I’ve been booked in to two radio shows to talk about detecting skin cancer early. I’m on Nicky Campbells show in the morning (Tuesday) on Radio Five Live around 8:10am via Skype!! Before that I’m on BBC Hereford and Worcester at about 7:30am. Skype!

In a similar way to what happened when I was on Rem.fm (I couldn’t have made it to Spain in person), I’m also in hospital tommorrow, this is a routine nothing to worry about thing, but the two conflict by the smallest of margins.

A while ago I asked to be referred to the Skin Oncology Service at Selly Oak. I’ve just receieved a letter telling me I have been booked into the dermatology department at Selly Oak (ok it’s an actual factual skin clinic … at last, something I’ve not had thus far … I know tell me about it) but I quote the “quick and early diagnosis” clinic, *sigh*, it’s good that a clinic like that exists.

In the very same building there’s a skin oncology department that does nothing other than skin cancer, that’s where I wanna be, I’ve been there for an opinion on lymph nodes, how difficult can it be to get the right clinic?

I can’t apportion blame to the folks on the ground, I’ve read paper after paper saying how under resourced dermatology is let alone skin oncology, so I can fully understand. You get tossed into this very inadequate setup that even the doctors complain about and it sucks more than the cancer does, why should the expereince be this negative?

I’m so sorry for the lack of updates here, I’ve had quite a bit on recently.

Speaking up for early detection
Last week I travelled to Cambridge for a very interesting meeting with a company who are using light to see under the skin which gives a lot more information about moles. Somehow somewhere along the lines we have to switch to early detection and make the reasons behind all this more real.

I wrote a detailed account of how it felt to have my moles scanned by Astron Clnica’s SIAscope over at moleAware.org.

Routine checks-ups show nothing of concern
My check ups are showing nothing to worry about, instead I’m having much more of a battle with the hospital. I’m still not convinced about this whole Melanoma thing being ok in the end, but as long as the journey I’m taking leads more people to become aware, and ultimatly it gives me a better respect for each day, I’m ok with it.

Bathroom
Some of my online readers may know at home we are doing a major task on our bathroom. About three weeks ago we ripped out the old suite which had been there for over a decade and replaced it with a new suite. The decorating is now reaching an end and we are almost ready to put the finishing touches in. Feels good to do something that will last another decade or so.

@media 2006
A while ago I made sure I got tickets to a very exciting web technology show in London. I have the hotel booked and the train down there and will be in London between the 14th and 17th June. Recently I’ve not done much with web technology, I guess because of other things, but @media I think will kick me into gear. This site needs a revamp for sure.

So much more to say, but I’m sure you all skipped to the end and missed the middle bits