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I first came across John Snow (not to be confused with Jon Snow) in an article about “Disease Detectives” in National Geographic. And then in my GCSE History course as medicine between 1700 and 1850 or so was included, he came up again.

In case you have never hear of him, he is the chap who plotted every case of cholera on a map, and realised that they were all clustered around a pump on Broad Street. He removed the handle, and the outbreak dried up. The outlying cases could be traced to people who had also drunk from that pump.

There is even a society in his honour – The John Snow Society, and I have to admit that in a statistics and research type of way I do find it interesting.

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Via the Daily Cup of Tech I came to What You Ought to Know I started with their video about QWERTY, but the other stuff looks amusing too.

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I have made use of http://www.nearby.org.uk/ for translating latitude and longitude for a place to a sat nav location to give to someone else.

So here it is for future reference.

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• Help! I am being forced to look round linen in john lewis…. #

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I have been playing with USB keys on and off for the last week now. In part this is to run my GTD tools on a pen drive so i always have them with me (i plan to set up sync with the web….) and then i realised that I would like my data encrypted.

I’m now using Truecrypt to encrypt my data and MoWeS to run the web server. Both can be configured so that when you put the USB stick into the PC they autorun (so much as is allowed by windows) but how about auto running Truecrypt to access the data, and then running MoWeS once my encrypted drive is mounted?

I have now discovered AutoIt in which I have written a script to do the work for me. I now get prompted for a password, then the data is mounted, and MoWeS started. when i stop MoWeS the drive automatically dismounts. The next step would be to get the USB key to eject itself too, but this is enough for me for now…

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