Recall Of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillation Leads

A couple of months ago, I was informed out the Medtronic recall of Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads, not all, but only from certain batches. My cousin sister has defibrillation leads implanted to help her regulate her heartbeat. Well, that got me worried but luckily, she is not using a Medtronic product.

I read that in December, 2007, a patient using Medtronic’s Sprint Fidelis defilbrillation leads filed a lawsuit against Medtronic. The faulty defilbrillator wrongly sent shocks to his heart and he had to undergo a few more operations to replace the device and repair the damage. Naturally, this patient is seeking damages.

I also read that there have already been five deaths linked to complications that arose from using these faulty Medtronic Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads. Yes, it could be fatal and that is a shame because these patients trusted and used the device to get cured, but instead died!

If you are using defibrillation leads, find out from your doctor the manufacturer of it, and if it is a Medtronic product, find out the batch number.

Is Goo Launching Paid Review Programme?

There have been rumours that Goo may launch a paid review programme. Well, if they are, I am not even surprised. Why? They have tried to kill of their blog advertising competitors and now, this would be the killer blow, or so they think.

So where does this leave us bloggers who are left with a big fat egg for our blog rankings? Most of us are, by the way, also publishers for Goo’s blog advertisements, which I shall not name but I am sure everyone knows the name.

What I know is that some people were so pissed off when they received an egg that they even wrote in to terminate their account. I think that we should keep theses issues separate, though. There’s no point being blinded by emotions.

However, I hope that should such a programme be launched, I certainly would like to participate as well.

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Naked No More

If you have been following my blog, you will know that despite using my Nokia E61i mobile device for seven months now and my iPhone for three months already, they are still naked.

If is not that I do not want to protect them but I have been looking for protection that does not add bulk to my devices. You may also have read that I do not carry any bags, that is why I like to keep my devices as slim as possible so that I can slip them into my pockets without the bulge.

My friend showed me his spanking new iPod case, which is a thin film of transparent wrapper over his iPod. Prior to this, I have come across invisibleSHIELDâ„¢ before but I had no chance to see the real deal since I live in Malaysia.

Now that I have felt it with my own hands, I am sold! Wrapping my iPhone with the full body coverage, I am sure that my precious iPhone will be protected from scratches yet add no extra inches or weight. I know that the iPhone screen is supposedly scratch-proof but I can’t take the chance.

The invisibleSHIELDâ„¢ is also scratch-proof and they come with a lifetime warranty. This is just the kind of reassurance I need.

Stripped Off All Ad Codes

If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you would know notice that the ad codes of a certain blog advertisement programme has been stripped off all my blogs. I joined this programme years ago, and I have forgotten their Terms of Service, until a friend refreshed my memory that this company prohibits the use of their service on blogs that promotes drugs, imitation goods and gambling.

After my chat with this friend, I went to read their Terms of Service again and true enough, they did mention explicitly which types of blogs qualify and which do not.

I spent the next hour and a half removing all my ad codes from all blogs, or at least I tried to, but I am not sure if I have cleaned it up totally because page impressions are still being recorded but only less than 10 impressions.

I will wait a little longer and see if the cache clears from all our computers to see if there are still impressions. As far as I know, I have already removed them all but it’s hard to say.

Art Auctions At Sea

Living in Ipoh, I sometimes feel like I am losing out on a lot of things, especially in arts and culture. I mean, I hardly get exposed on art although I love art and the best I could do is to attend an art exhibition once in a blue moon. My friend, Paul, tells me that I should attend an art auction one day as it is very interesting and exciting to see people bidding against each other for “just” a piece of fine art that could amazingly run into millions of dollars.

Park West Art Gallery is an art gallery based in Michigan USA and that is too far away from me so the best is to view their catalog of art collections through their website.

Did you know that they have an sister company named Park West at Sea that sails around the world to conduct art auctions on their cruise ship. Talking about bringing art to the people!

Behind Schedule

With my computer just home and my internet broadband still cranky with now you can, now you cannot connect, I am seriously behind schedule in updating my blogs. I am sure if you have read a few posts back, I have four new blogs. Luckily they are all my Passion Blogs, blogs that I write for absolute fun.

But still, I do not like it with the big gaps between posts but that can’t be helped and I can only work on my blogs for a limited hours a day because I am not a silai. LOL

I guess I shouldn’t even complain and should be grateful that I even have broadband internet and computer. Ya, that surely sounds like what my parents would say! See, this month has been extremely challenging with all the obstacles but what could not kill me can only make me stronger.

Useful Tool For Noobie Webmasters

I may be a webmaster of more than ten websites and blogs but I certainly am not as proficient in HTML or CSS coding as I would like. Just the other day, I was thinking of adding a poll to my blog post and I absolutely had no idea how to do so. I have seen many people embedding myspace surveys on their MySpace profiles and I thought it would be neat to use those on my blogs and do a little survey of my readers.

A friend told me that I do not have to write my own poll and I could use a ready-made one. There are plenty on the web if only I would search! The key points to look out for are user-friendliness, reliability and customization.

Easy-Poll, like the name says, is really “easy” to use. I mean, how easy could it get by just typing in your survey questions and options? They also do have different color schemes to suit the theme of our site and that is very important to me.

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