Monthly Archives: June 2006

London hospital trivia

By mpj | Published: 23 June, 2006
According to the Wikipedia article, St Thomas’s hospital “was described as ancient in 1215 and was named after Thomas Becket – which suggests it may have been founded after 1173 when Becket was canonised. However, it is possible it was only renamed in 1173 and that it was founded when St Mary Overie Priory was [...]
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Bread queues are back

By mpj | Published: 21 June, 2006
Tesco is the largest retailer in Britain, with about 30% market share in UK grocieries. Why is it, then, that Tesco is absolutely hopeless in managing its supply chain. Observe what the bread shelf looks like on a typical Saturday afternoon at a large, 24h supermarket in Surrey Quays, London: I know several people who have [...]
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Site (finally) up

By mpj | Published: 20 June, 2006
None of my domains have hosted anything useful since a couple of years ago when my Drupal installation died. This is an attempt to get some use out of at least one of the domains. This site is running my own branch of seedBlogs, based on a version I hacked together for the Finnish Student Society [...]
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