Gordon's Notes

In 1752 America September 2nd was followed by September 14th. That's when the Britain and her colonies switched to the Gregorian calenda...

You only need to know one thing to know that the frenetic healthcare standards efforts failed ... Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Interim Fina...

John Scalzi and Andrew Sullivan agree. President Obama has been a giant. I say he's much more than American deserves. The roots of GOP...

We were very late with our 2009 donation to CARE.ORG . I just got it done. We donate to CARE, and very little to anywhere else, for four mai...

Google finally migrated our Page Creator site to Google Sites - six months late. It's a train wreck . Remind me again why we're su...

Another mentally ill al Qaeda cannon fodder has tried to blow up an airplane. It's encouraging that they're still scraping the barre...

I've always had annoyingly high cholesterol levels, but I recently hit both age 5 0 and a new high cholesterol (though also a new high H...

Google is infamous for not providing direct customer service . If you lose control of your Google Account you can be in deep trouble very qu...

I've been gradually working through all the expected and unexpected* consequences of moving in a new machine and sunsetting my 6+ year o...

It's getting hard for me to remember pre-Amazon. I know I bought books in the first few months of operation, when that was all they sold...

Odds are something like the Senate bill passed today will become law. I didn't hope for much, but I did have one selfish desire. I hope...

A biking book I was reading claimed Minneapolis (meaning St Paul) was the coldest major city on earth. That might be true of the US if you ...

Alzheimer's syndrome is associated with reduced risk of cancer . I'm not surprised, I wrote about this sort of thing back in 2006 . ...

A combination of flawed institutional practices , the nihilistic devastation of the Party of Beck and Limbaugh , and the political, economic...

Charlie Stross is a literate geek who makes a living inventing plausible worlds . That's why he can write one of the best tech posts of ...