Our Medical Records

It is 11PM. Do you know where your medical records are? Most likely they are scattered across multiple doctors’ offices in manila folders. The most information about our healthcare encounters is with "payers", the insurance companies which pay for care if we are lucky enough to have the coverage. Most of their information is about […]

SOA Las Vegas

The conference in Las Vegas this past week was not like the ones Thomas J. Watson used to hold in Endicott where all the blue suit white shirt male attendees would sing songs about IBM’s future. The master of ceremonies for the opening morning was Drew Carey and the "dinner music" was by The B-52’s […]

IBM Happenings: March 2008

The month of March was another busy one at IBM. The month was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The list of announcements made by IBM during the month is below, and the complete Index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. A number of […]

Geocaching Update

As of this week there are 57,370 people who have accounts at geocaching.com. They have placed 550,474 caches around the world for others to enjoy finding. In the last 7 days, there have been 440,577 new log entries written by account holders describing their experiences at finding (or not finding) the caches. For me, there […]

Kindlized

The "e-book" — replacing the paper book with something electronic — is not a new idea. Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and now has a collection of 24,000 books which have been digitized. Digital books can be read on a PC and there are various software offerings that can enable you to read books on […]