Cobb's Blog

Care Load: decisions, monitoring, anticipation, information, coordination, interruption, emotion, plus the physical care tasks measured in hours.

This article is about the practical application of one particular aspect of unpaid carer policy in the UK, something called Carer's Assessment.

The rise of prostate cancer (Urological) in the UK from April 2020 to October 2024 As I have said elsewhere, I am reading and writing a lot about prostate cancer these days, not just because it is something that numerous friends and I are dealing with in…

💥 Founded in 2005, Cobb's Blog has been through many changes over the years.

[Note to readers: I am not posting prostate cancer (PCa) diary entries every day.

Yesterday's trip to Sainsbury's did not yield a suitable physical diary in which to record my "prostate cancer journey."

UK Prostate Cancer statistics from NHS via Prostate Cancer UK Prostate cancer, often referred to by doctors as PCa, appears to be on the rise in the UK and the US.

Using drones to make movies and take pictures can be a lot of fun.

Here's a quick reminder that some parking rules are made for very valid reasons.

I am writing this in the waiting room of the nuclear medicine facility at UHCW (University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire).

This short video was a fun part of my AI-cybersecurity work in 2025 As one year ends and another begins I find it helpful to look back at what I managed to accomplish over the last 12 months, even as I plan for the next 12.

Just over a decade ago I encountered a cool band out of Echo Park, Los Angeles, that went by the name of NO.

The source of much of what is wrong in the world today is male supremacy, awareness of which needs raising.

Haemochromatosis: the most common genetic killer of folk from the British Isles and their descendants Back in 2008, while I was living in America, a big word became a big part of my life: hemochromatosis, pronounced he-moe-kroe-muh-TOE-sis (spelt with an…

The T-shirt I bought at my first DefCon, which was DefCon III in 1995 DefCon, the very popular annual hacking conference held annually in Las Vegas opens today, August 7th and runs through the 10th.

Back in 2017, I found out that I have something called congenital amusia, an inherited condition that can make it impossible to carry a tune or learn to play a musical instrument.

Welcome to a new and potentially extraordinary year.

One of the things that has helped me get through 2024 is the ability to look back, with very little effort at the many pictures I have taken in years gone by.

This post used to be pinned to the top of the blog but I decided to let it move down the stack.

Women in their 40s or older need to be aware of a condition called giant cell arteritis or GCA.

If you or someone you love is taking tablets for high blood pressure, now would be a good time to learn more about primary aldosteronism, a condition that has recently been declared: "the most common specifically treatable and potentially curable form of…

"A tiny amount of non-aggressive cancer" is probably the best biopsy result you can get, short of "no sign of any cancer at all."

If you happen to be wondering what a prostate biopsy is like, this article should prove helpful.

This is just a quick blog post to share some fun I've been having lately by combining old maps of England with current satellite photography.

On July 17, 2021, something very wonderful and special arrived at our address in England: cannabis-based medicine prescribed by an English doctor.

Like their creators, websites age over time, and sometimes they forget things, like where a particular image or document is located.

I'm into classic glass photography.