Where he's taking this country is 1947, but I think his target for the sick and disabled is 1847.

Given the nature of my blog - medical and disability advice and information - and disability benefits - based on the one source I know intimately - me - it's inevitable that there is a lot of me in many of my posts.

Of late, it's become even more personal, chronicling my battle with fatal illness, along with a smattering of politics and whatever else that takes my fancy - making bread, and venturing into home-made sausages for example ( the lamb and rosemary are excellent) - I might be dying but I'm not done yet. There are still things I haven't done that I want to squeeze into what time I have left and, undoubtedly, it'll find its way only my blog too, time permitting.

My readers seem happy - they're still with me anyway, and my hits are up on last year. I've even picked up a few new subscribers.

But - and it's a big BUT - know your audience, and remember that there are some things in everybody's life that are so utterly personal that you do NOT share them at all. There is a lot of me in my blog - there's a lot that isn't too.
My recent post Oedema – Dihydrocodeine v Co-codamol results (A Chronicles of the Heart suppmement).

Untermenschen, in fact, since there are so many of us - something I've been saying on my blog for at least the past year.

As any researcher or statistician knows full well, a sample of one is completely and utterly meaningless. Go find 1,000 more people to examine and the result will be statistically viable. Until then, stop wasting people's time with pointless crap like this.

At the very least. And you'd get one hell of a laptop for that money - this just seems to be a very hard way of getting there.

I really like this, as a concept, but as a practical, real-world device, I think we have a touch of Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome.