Archive for January, 2010
Costs of surgical procedures and operations
If you are due to go into hospital to have surgery then you might be interested in how much it costs regardless of whether you are going NHS or private. In can be hard to find out what your treatment actually costs but I’ve found out that many of the major health insurance companies publish lists of how much they will pay your hospital for [...]
Finnair vegetarian VLML in flight meals
Recently I took two Finnair flight. One was 10 hours and one 3 hours. I wanted the vegetarian (VLML Vegetarian Lacto-Ovo Meal) meals. It was not possible to request them when booking the flight tickets on the Finnair website so I had to phone their call centre. I told the lady that I wanted the VLML meal. It is best to be specific and say VLML [...]
Converting file extensions to lower case
Recently I needed to convert a large number of photo file extensions to lower case. Doing this manually would take ages and wouldn’t be a fun job. I wrote a quick batch file to look through all the sub-directories from the one it is executed from and change selected file extensions to lower case. To use this script place the below code in [...]
