Friday, August 23, 2013

CrossFit at 54

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There was a competition underway when I first visited CrossFit St Paul ; it had pounding beats, tattoos, (relatively) young people. Somethin...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Americans traveling through Canada: Telecom 2013

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It goes something like this: Remove my personal (iPhone) mobile number from my work Google Voice (GV) account and set that number to forwa...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Will Facebook become a local event and activity service?

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Today I learned of a 3-4 year old local bicycling group aimed at families with children ages 6-13 . I'd have jumped a this a few years a...

Apple and the 2013 tech world - in the doldrums

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I was in an Apple Store yesterday with a burned-through seven year old power adapter cable . Our much abused power adapter came with a Mac...

Sympathy for Economists

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A good feature of teenagers is that they sometimes sleep in. So Emily and I can chat on a quiet Saturday morning about wearable tech  ( reme...
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...
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...
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...
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...