The First Aid Quiz, Fun and Games Web Site has been updated to coincide with the launch of the new First Aid Manual.

The First Aid Manual, by St John Ambulance, St Andrew’s First Aid and Red Cross

The First Aid Manual is the authoritative guide to First Aid in the UK, produced as a combined effort between the volunteer organisations: St. John Ambulance, St. Andrew’s First Aid and The Red Cross.

I have a overheating problem with my desktop computer at the moment. We are experiencing some of the hotest July temperatures in the UK and my PC doesn’t seam to cope. I am running Fedora FC5, and whilst it is generally OK, but if I run a CPU intensive application the temperature of the PC […]

As I’ve mentioned on my web site I’ve been involved in St. John Ambulance Theatre Shows in the past, particularly in Theatre Computer Animation using Macromedia Flash. This years show will not have any stage projection, but I am creating a Autocue program, which will be assisting with some of the lyrics. The program will […]

It is with a little embarrassment that I write this post, in that I never discovered Coundon Wedge long before. I have been living in Coventry for over 7 years, about 20 minutes walk from Coundon Wedge, but never really knew what it was. Now I have found it I want to keep going back. […]

This is a review of the Panasonic SD Audio Player SV-SD300. The title mentions the SV-SD350V, which is a similar product, but includes a radio and the ability to record voice memos. I have included it here as it uses the same software, and I believe the review will apply to that model the same. […]

A comment I’ve seen recently is that Helmets should become a legal requirements for cycles just like it currently is for Motorised bikes in the UK. This would be using the polystyrene type of cycle helmets rather than the full protection offered by motorcycle full face crash helmets. In fact one of the questions asked […]

I have passed a copy of the Ubuntu Desktop CD on to a friend, who it looks like will convert completely to open source. The unusual thing is that he’s not a “techie” or even an advanced computer user, he’s just a regular user wanting something other than Windows. I think that one incentive was […]

There was a large power cut in the Coventry area last night which caused an outage on my websites www.WatkissOnline.co.uk and www.FirstAidQuiz.com. My www.PenguinTutor.com web site is hosted and was unaffected. A large area of Coventry appeared to be hit by the power cut. The town centre looked OK, but looking out from that there […]

This will take you step by step through creating a custom entry on the Firefox Searchbar. A popular reason for doing this is if you have an Intranet with a search engine. As it allows you to then search your intranet as simply as it would using Google, or another Internet search engine. One of […]

Earlier this week I successfully passed the LPIC 201 exam. Whilst I was revising I created a number of questions based on the 201 objectives to add to the already popular LPI 101 and LPI 102 practice Exams at Penguin Tutor. When I took the exam I noticed that one questions was almost identical and […]