Saturday, July 27, 2013

My eBook misadventures. Not ready yet?

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After much thought, I decided to build my digital library on DRM-free EPUBs . That means buying from DRM-free sources like TidBITS, O'Re...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Nose and mouth breathing: a popular non-medical topic and a curious research deficit

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For idiosyncratic personal reasons I've had to think about mouth versus nose breathing during wake and sleep. Despite my medical backgro...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Bicycling in a deluge

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Many years ago I road through a mini-flood downpour. Not the nearly 5" that drowned Toronto , but a fun storm. That was it for a long t...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

National Library of Medicine adds PubReader - Instapaper for medical literature fans

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I became a fan of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) when "Grateful Med" [2] augmented the old telnet interface to what was th...
Friday, July 05, 2013

Acute back strain management - one anecdote

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After the 2008 vacation ambulance ride  and the supine drive home  I decided I needed to see a doctor other than myself. Twenty-five years o...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

American psychology and civil war in Egypt

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An acquaintance from my Quebec High School is active in Egypt's secular resistance to Morsi's rule. She's frustrated by Obama...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Blogger.com and Wordpress.com traffic post the end of Google Reader

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Inspired by this Rumproarious post on the effects of the Google Reader shutdown announcement  of mid-March 2013 (data excludes custom domain...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Microcomputer redux

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Once upon a time, in the 1970s, these were microcomputers : "" We called them micro -computers because we used the term mini -co...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Cash purchases driving a new real estate bubble - too much wealth, too few investments

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Cash-only real estate speculation in LA, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and so on (emphases mine) ... Cash Is Fueling Quick Home Sales - NYT...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Was AirPort Utility 6 the start of Apple's year of drifting dangerously?

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I used Pacifist to install Airport Utility 5.6 when I upgraded to Mountain Lion . So I didn't really notice how many features Apple remo...
Saturday, June 01, 2013

What pedestrians and cyclists can do while we wait for the end of human drivers

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After 40 years of biking with cars , and almost as long driving with them, I cannot avoid the obvious. Humans cannot drive cars safely arou...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Android tablet price crash: do we have a cereal box computer yet?

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Fifteen years ago, I predicted sand-based tablet devices would soon follow the price-collapse trajectory of the pocket calculator . They wou...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Stock prices - resorting to another dumb hydraulic analogy

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Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.

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Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Ranbaxy story: why we still can't trust our medications

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It isn't just China that struggles with counterfeit and defective medications. India's  Ranbaxy  makes much of the generic Lipitor ...
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