In advertising at 05:40 am November 30th, 2008
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How did that get approved?!

In the modern day of advertising there’s quite a few guidlines out there that we should follow to not upset people, but these seem to be changing – great for us the designers.  We are seeing more and more on the edge advertising for example – evo-stik have just brought out a product called “sticks like sh*t”.
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In Kidney Blog on November 28th, 2008
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Transkid update

Since putting the transkid site live on the 17th November I have had 96 133 unique hits ranging from USA to lebanon, my page view % has gone up a massive 508%.  Seeing as I have not put together any proper advertising for it, its going quite well.  Im getting alot of really good feed [...]

In Kidney Blog on November 28th, 2008
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16 days after

It’s now over 2 weeks since my transplant and everything is going great.  Since traveling hour and thirty minutes to the hospital monday wednesday and friday mornings I have had only positive news from the doctors.
There’s quite a lot of things I need to get used to like drinking 2/3 litres a day which works [...]

In design on November 23rd, 2008
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Wordle tool

You sometimes see this effect in films, I think vacancy was one that used this sort of effect in the opening titles, i think its really effective. Not really sure how you can get a high res version I guess you would have to redraw it all in Ai becasue you only get an option to save it in their gallery

In Kidney Blog on November 19th, 2008
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Transkid is live!

Over the past 6 months I have been battling FSGS, its a condition where an antibody in your blood destroys your filters.  When your kidneys dont work you face many problems.  Your legs swell up becasue your kidneys dont get rid of the fluid so it just drains through your kidneys

In Inline Hockey on November 18th, 2008
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The Incredible Harv

We have a lot of fun during the off season and this is a quite popular drill to do.  Harv turned out to be very good at this drill and he focused his strength to battle through a few big guys.  I have been a bit busy and only just got round to putting this [...]

In Kidney Blog on November 17th, 2008
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Transplant Done!

So its 6 days since my transplant and today is my 1st full day at home.  It all went pretty smoothly and my dad and I had no complications.
Im really happy its over but its just a waiting game now to see if FSGS comes back in the new kidney.  Just got to cope with [...]

In Kidney Blog on November 11th, 2008
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Still intact

This is my final entry for a while, as tomorrow im under the knife.  I have asked whether the op can be photographed so i can show people what goes on with a kidney transplant. might seem a bit odd, but it might be useful to people who I going to have a transplant down [...]