CoodaShooda

News report this morning from our cousins in Kiwiland.....

A kiwi gentleman has contracted the dreaded DVT from sitting at his 'pooter for 12 to 18 hours at a time. Ended up with a massive clot in his lung but fortunately responded to treatment and survived.

Cooda's first thought on hearing the introduction to the story was that it might have been a certain retired geordie mariner. Was very relieved it was only an anonymous kiwi.

Nevertheless, its food for thought.

tony draper

No worries Cooda, Drapes gives his lungs a good workout with a ciggie every 15 minutes or so when proonin.
Incidently, chat costs drapes a forune, light ciggie forget about it, type something, read, reach for ciggie to find it burned out, repeat operation.

BlueDiamond

Oh dear, CoodaShooda ... who on earth is he going to sue for that one????

Oh, wait. I can see it all now, compulsory laws in every country requiring any software to incorporate a warning which must be displayed on the screen every five minutes;

WARNING. Sitting on your backside for hours on end may be hazardous to your health.

Or

WARNING. This software incorporates surveillance and timing features. If you do not take a five minute physical activity break every fifteen minutes, this programme will shut down.

It's Net Nanny taken to its highest level!!!

CoodaShooda

Apparently the gent concerned is too embarrassed to seek publicity.

Unfortunately (for him) the doctor treating him is an eminent professor of medicine who likes to see his name printed in the Medical Journal and hearing himself on radio.

So, not a kiwi wind up this time... pooter users beware

Synthetic

Good points all round, but please bear in mind that your complicator has started to dammage you long before you get to the DVT stage, or even lack of excercise. You should not look at a screen for more than 50 minutes in any one hour. At the end of that time, get up and walk away from it. Best thing to do is go outside, but the aim is to let the eyes focus at different lengths, including infinity. Failure to do this will dammage your eyes. I know this one from experience.

My humble appologies for being serious on jet blast. How many penalty points does that get me?

ratsarrse

I believe that Microsoft have already implemented this feature in Windows 95 and 98. They forget to put the message in though - it just read General Protection Error.
Strangely, it seems to have largely disappeared in later releases of Windows. Wasn't popular apparently.